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Web Components at Scale at Salesforce: Challenges Encountered, Lessons Learnt
Diego Ferreiro Val, principal architect at Salesforce, co-creator of Lightning Web Components (LWC), talked at WebComponentsSF about the challenges and lessons in building a platform leveraging web components at enterprise scale. Albeit with missing pieces, the web components standard was instrumental to achieve Salesforce’s interoperability, backward and forward compatibility objectives at scale.
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Babel 7.9 Reduces Bundle Sizes, Adds TypeScript 3.8 Support
The Babel 7.9 release decreases default bundle sizes when using the module/nomodule pattern and adds support for TypeScript 3.8 and its type-only imports and exports. Babel 7.9 also improves optimizations for JSX transforms and adds experimental parser support for the ES Record & Tuple proposal.
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Next.js 9.3 Released, Improves Static Site Generation
The Next.js team recently released Next.js 9.3, featuring improved static website generation and preview and adding Sass support, while shipping a smaller runtime.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability for UI Flows, Enabling Robotic Process Automation
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of UI Flows on April 2nd, for customers worldwide. UI Flows is an addition to Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow, that enables democratized access to automation and workflow. In this this latest release, Microsoft is enabling robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities in the Power Automate service.
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Adaptive Loading for a Faster Web
The Google Chrome team recently introduced Adaptive Loading, an exploration for loading and rendering the most suitable version of a component based on network speed, CPU, memory, and other web platform signals.
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Istio 1.5: Consolidated "Istiod" Control Plane Binary and New Wasm-Based Extension Model
Istio 1.5 has introduced the Istiod binary to simplify Istio's architecture and improve operational experience. It has become simpler to install and run Istio since the control plane components have been consolidated into a single binary, Istiod. Istio has introduced a new extension model for proxy servers and improved usability, security, telemetry and traffic control.
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How Team Interactions Help Kubernetes Adoption with Manuel Pais at QCon London
Manuel Pais talked at QCon London about how team interactions are vital to reduce cognitive load to have a successful adoption of Kubernetes. Pais recommends having a digital platform on top of Kubernetes. And, organizations can get started by assessing the team's cognitive load, defining a digital platform, and setting clear team interactions.
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Edge to Cloud: Building the Tesla Virtual Power Plant
Tesla engineers discuss the Tesla Virtual Power Plant and how the software they’re building is tackling some of the hardest problems in distributed systems and in renewable energy. The Tesla Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is a modern example of a cloud-native architecture that heavily leverages edge computing.
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Google Introduces Machine Images to Simplify Making and Restoring Virtual Machines
In a recent blog post, Google announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource containing all the information users need to create, backup or restore a virtual machine, and thus reducing the amount of time required for managing environments. The feature in Compute Engine is currently in beta, and not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy.
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OCI Releases Micronaut 1.3 Featuring Micronaut Data 1.0
Object Computing, Inc. released Micronaut 1.3 featuring the milestone release of project Micronaut Data 1.0, a database access toolkit using Ahead of Time compilation to pre-compute queries for repository interfaces executed by a lightweight runtime layer. Micronaut Data provides an API for translating a Query model into a query at compile time and provides runtime support for supported databases.
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Java 14 Released
Oracle has released Java 14, the latest non-LTS release of one of the world's most popular programming languages.
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JavaScript Face Detection with face-api.js
The face-api.js JavaScript module implements convolutional neural networks to solve for face detection and recognition of faces and face landmarks. The face-api.js leverages TensorFlow.js and is optimized for the desktop and mobile web.
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Successful Remote Working
For both employees and employers, remote work requires intentional design and implementation to be effective. People find remote work challenging because the established mindset says that being in an office is how work gets done. Despite the challenges, when remote work is done well, the advantages to employees and employer are sufficient to make it worthwhile.
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Amazon Updates Transcribe with Automatic Redaction of Personally Identifiable Information Feature
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service, allowing customers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Recently, the public cloud provider made a significant update to the service with an automatic redaction of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) feature.
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GraalVM 20.0: Run Tomcat as Native Image on Windows
GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared runtime to execute applications written in multiple languages like Java, Python, and JavaScript, has released major version 20.0 with full support on Windows Platform. In a related news, Apache Tomcat 9 has announced full support for GraalVM native image generation that includes the container.