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Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform at QCon SF 2023
At QConSF, Airbnb staff software engineer Nikhil Simha presented Chronon, Airbnb's solution to address the challenges of managing and serving the vast number of features used in machine learning models. The platform focuses on four key areas: core APIs, training data generation, feature serving, and feature observability.
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SwiftUI 5 Leaves Combine behind, Extends Animations, and More
At WWDC 2023, Apple presented the latest iteration of its declarative framework for UI programming. SwiftUI 5 completely overhauls its reactive foundations by replacing Combine with the new Observation framework. Additionally, it adds support for phased animations, improves ScrollView, new gestures, and more.
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Jetpack Compose 1.2 Includes Lazy Grids, Support for Google Fonts, and More
Jetpack Compose 1.2 stabilizes a number of features, including lazy grids, nested scroll, easing curve for animations, and more. In addition, it brings several new experimental features, like custom layouts and downloadable fonts, and fixes many issues.
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How Rewriting a C++/ObjC Codebase in Swift Shrank it down to 30%
In a recent article on the Swift language blog, Graphing Calculator's creator Ron Avitzur recounted how his decision to fully rewrite his app in Swift allowed him to shrink its codebase down to 30% of its original size, improving maintainability and readability while not losing performance.
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Apple Announces Declarative SwiftUI Framework for Leaner, Faster, Interactive App Development
Apple recently announced at WWDC 2019 the SwiftUI framework for application development across the iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS platforms. SwiftUI relies on a declarative UI programming paradigm, aiming to drastically increase developer productivity and reduce lines of code. Moreover, SwiftUI features an XCode interactive development experience, displaying in real-time the result of their code.
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V-Play Enables Qt-based Cross-platform Native Mobile App Development
V-Play is a desktop and mobile cross-platform development solution based on Qt. V-Play aims to make it easier for developers to create apps by using JavaScript and QML, Qt 5's declarative language. V-Play supports iOS, Android, WindowsPhone, BlackBerry and other mobile platforms. InfoQ has spoken to Christian Feldbacher, CEO & Co-Founder of V-Play.
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A Few Highlights from QConSF2013- Part 2 of 2
It's one thing having an in-house training program. But there is a certain deeper insight that can be gained from attending a Q-Con conference in person. Which may be one reason why attendance at the globe-hopping event continues to grow.