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Analyzing Large Amounts of Feedback to Learn from Users
Making it easy for users to give feedback and automating the collection of feedback helps to get more feedback faster. Using artificial intelligence, you can analyze large amounts of feedback to get insights and visualize trends. Sharing this information widely supports taking action to enhance your product and solve issues that users are having.
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Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture Defined
The concept of a data mesh provides new ways to address common problems around managing data at scale. Zhamak Dehghani has provided additional clarity around the four principles of a data mesh, with a corresponding logical architecture and organizational structure.
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eBay Rearchitected Android App to Leverage App Bundles and Dynamic Feature Delivery
eBay engineers worked with Google to rearchitecture and reimplement their mobile app to take advantage of several new technologies, including Android app bundles (AAB) and Kotlin. They also took the chance to improve test automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and overcome global infrastructure limitations.
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Ensuring Software Quality at eBay Denmark
Quality is not only about not releasing bugs to production, it is much more than that. Quality is a product that is user-friendly, easy to access and use, has high performance/short load time, and is about code that is stable and easy to maintain. Jette Pedersen gave a talk about how to ensure good quality products at Swiss Testing Day 2020.
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Axon 4.4 Improves Server Performance, Simplifies Framework Usage, and Enhances Developer Experience
AxonIQ has formally released Axon 4.4, a major release of the framework and server infrastructure that helps build event-driven microservices applications utilizing CQRS/event sourcing and domain-driven design.
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Refactoring Large Haskell Codebases Using Facebook Retrie
Facebook has open-sourced the tool they use to refactor their own Sigma anti-abuse rule engine. Named Retrie, this tool allows developers to describe rewrites as equations in Haskell syntax rather than regular expressions.
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Web Animations API Now Supported in All Evergreen Browsers
With the release of Safari 13.1, the Web Animations API now ships with all evergreen browsers.
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Beyond Responsive Design, Responsive Websites - Kilian Valkhof at HalfStack
Kilian Valkhof, creator of the web-developer-focused Polypane browser, presented at the HalfStack conference new ways that web developers and designers can provide better user experience by going a step beyond responsive design. Using recent additions to browsers, developers and designers can also respond to user preferences, the user environment, the network condition, and device capabilities.
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New Proposal Improves Client-Side Video Editing by Four Times
Melanie Richards discussed the client-side video editing proposal that the Edge team at Microsoft has been working on. The proposal is in the incubation phase at the Web Platform Incubator Community Group(WICG) and aims at enabling dramatically faster client-side video editing experience and better performance. The proposed interface includes methods for trimming and concatenating videos.
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IBM Launches Equal Access Toolkit to Help Developers Write Accessible Applications
IBM recently released the IBM Equal Access Toolkit and the Accessibility Checker, two new open-source toolkits that strive to give designers, developers, and testers a set of tools to make websites and applications accessible.
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Decomposing a Monolith Does Not Require Microservices - Sam Newman at QCon London
Sam Newman says the goal of decomposing a monolith must be independent deployability, and developers need to focus on the outcome, not the technology. Speaking at QCon London, he said, "The monolith is not the enemy" and, "Microservices should not be the default choice."
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Data Fetching Patterns for a Better User Experience - Joe Savona at React Conf
Joe Savona explored at React Conf some of the ways Relay and Suspense can help improve the user loading experience and the best practices that have been identified in production for using Suspense for data-fetching.
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Facebook's CSS-in-JS Approach - Frank Yan at React Conf 2019
Frank Yan discussed at React Conf some of the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the new facebook.com, addressing topics such as Facebook’s approach to CSS-in-JS.
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Refactoring GitHub OctoKit JavaScript REST SDK for Maintainability and Modularization
GitHub engineer Gregor Martynus recently described his journey to refactor GitHub official REST JavaScript SDK, originally containing about 16 thousand lines of code across six files total, into a more maintainable and modular project.
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Remaining Accessibility Issues in HTML Controls
The HTML standard has constantly made progress in accessibility over the years. Developers and designers have however reported some accessibility issues with common HTML controls such as <input/>, <select/>, <video/>.