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Dynamic Web Apps without JavaScript - HTMX Showcase at DjangoCon and Devoxx
DjangoCon and Devoxx Belgium recently reported examples of interactive web applications developed without JavaScript developers. The showcased htmx HTML-first framework seems to target those applications that mainly propose a friendly interface to CRUD operations over remote resources. In one case, the team was able to remove the JavaScript developer.
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Trivago’s Journey from PHP+Melody to Next.js and Typescript
Trivago’s platform was built using PHP and their Melody framework. A small number of engineers at Trivago maintained Melody, which was a continuity risk. Melody’s documentation and examples could not be as rich as desired due to a lack of capacity, making engineer onboarding and support much more difficult. Trivago then decided to rewrite its platform on Typescript using Next.js.
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Google Cloud Supports PHP on Cloud Functions
Google Cloud recently announced the public preview of PHP on Cloud Functions. The Functions Framework for PHP supports HTTP functions, to respond to HTTP events, and CloudEvent functions to process events sourced from external and internal Google Cloud services like Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Firestore.
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PHP 8 Brings New JIT, Union Types, and More
PHP 8 is a major update to PHP that includes a new just-in-time compiler (JIT) and many new language features. InfoQ has spoken with Sentry principal developer Mark Story to better understand what role PHP and PHP 8 play in today's language landscape.
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AWS Lambda Layers and Runtime API: beyond Officially Supported Runtimes
AWS re:Invent 2018 had numerous announcements of new features and services, including Lambda Layers, to centrally manage code and data shared across functions, and the Lambda Runtime API, expanding Lambda beyond JavaScript to any programming language.
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Google Releases App Engine Second Generation Runtime Supporting Python 3.7 and PHP 7.2 Support
Google Cloud recently announced the release of its Second Generation App Engine standard runtimes, an upgrade to the web framework and cloud computing platform for building apps. This update allows users to run their web apps with up-to-date versions of popular languages, frameworks and libraries, including the Python 3.7 and PHP 7.2 libraries.
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Eclipse Foundation Releases Eclipse Photon IDE
The Eclipse Foundation has released the latest version of the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse Photon brings support for both Java 10 and Java EE 8, improvements for PHP development tools, Dark theme improvements, and more.
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Sonatype Acquires Vor Security to Expand Nexus Open-Source Component Support
Sonatype announced the acquisition of Vor Security to extend their open-source component intelligence solutions’ coverage to include Ruby, PHP, CocoaPods, Swift, Golang, C, and C++.
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How Facebook Redesigned the HHVM JIT Compiler for Performance
In the Summer of 2013, Facebook engineers started a major redesign of the HHVM JIT compiler that brought an overall 15% reduction of CPU usage on Facebook’s web servers. Facebook engineer Guilherme Ottoni has recently described how Facebook achieved that result by backing profile-guided optimizations (PGO) into their JIT compiler.
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Survey: Android’s Lead is Consolidated
According to the latest Developer Nation Q3 2016 survey from VisionMobile, Android’s lead over iOS as primary platform and developer mindshare has been consolidated. Also, Windows developers prefer C# in the cloud while Linux ones stay with Java.
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WordPress.com Replaces PHP with JavaScript
WordPress.com has replaced PHP with web technologies and a RESTful back-end API for the administration console.
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Facebook Nuclide Is Now Open Source
Announced three months ago during the F8 developer conference, Facebook has open sourced the code for their Nuclide IDE. Nuclide is based on Atom, adding a number of packages without changing anything in the core of GitHub’s IDE.
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The Hack Language Gets an Official Specification
The Hack language has now got an official specification. According to the HHVM team, the Hack specification, albeit in its initial stage, fills a gap in the documentation available for the Hack language.
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SQL Server Roundup
A lot of small releases were made by Microsoft’s SQL Server team last month. Some of the highlights include Power BI for on-site servers, System Center support for SQL Server 2014, and updated Java/PHP drivers.
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James Gosling and Bruno Souza Join Jelastic as Advisers
James Gosling, creator of the Java language, and Bruno Souza, Brazilian SouJava JUG founder and Java Champion, will be joining Java/PHP cloud-host Jelastic . InfoQ speaks to Gosling, Souza, and Jelastic CEO, Ruslan Synytsky about the new relationships.