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Vue 3 Released with New APIs to Tackle Usage at Scale

Vue 3 recently shipped with numerous new APIs that cater to using Vue at scale and in non-DOM environments. New Suspense and Teleport built-in components and new CSS scoping rules make for a more expressive template language. Custom events and fragments allow Vue components to have a public API closer to that of regular DOM elements. The Vue ecosystem is finalizing its migration to Vue 3.

Bruno Couriol
on Jan 28, 2021
Culture & Methods

Breaking the Taboo – What I Learned from Talking about Mental Health in the Workplace

Mental illness is a topic that does not get discussed openly very often. Many people concerned hide their own history for fear of being stigmatized, especially in the workplace. This is a story about how speaking openly about mental illness, even with your boss and co-workers, can help yourself and others. The author shares with you what she has learned from breaking the taboo.

Sophie Küster
on Jan 28, 2021
Java

Enhanced Streams Processing with Kotlin’s Sequence Interface

Data structures are an intrinsic part of every programming language, yet Java’s Stream interface lacks vital operations and its complex approach to extensibility gave rise to alternative libraries such as jOOλ and Guava. This article provides an alternative approach that can be easily integrated in any Java project using Kotlin's Sequence interface.

Diogo Poeira Miguel Gamboa
on Jan 27, 2021
Culture & Methods

Learning from Incidents

Jessica DeVita (Netflix) and Nick Stenning (Microsoft) have been working on improving how software teams learn from incidents in production. In this article, they share some of what they’ve learned from the research community in this area, and offer some advice on the practical application of this work.

Jessica DeVita Nick Stenning
on Jan 27, 2021
Cloud

Performance Analysis for Arm vs x86 CPUs in the Cloud

In this article, the author uses AWS’s Arm (Graviton2) and x86_64 (Intel) EC2 instances to evaluate computational performance across different software runtimes, including Docker, Node.js, and WebAssembly. Our conclusion is that Arm is more cost effective in the cloud, especially with lightweight runtimes that are close to the underlying operating system.

Michael Yuan
on Jan 25, 2021
Culture & Methods

Five Reasons You Shouldn't Reproduce Issues in Remote Environments

Bugs are an unavoidable part of software development and also one of the biggest time sinks developers face when building software. One way we waste time when working on bugs is trying to reproduce issues in remote test environments. There are some circumstances where this is a wise approach and some where it is a waste. Knowing the difference is an important skill.

Josh Hendrick
on Jan 24, 2021
Java

Java Feature Spotlight: Pattern Matching

Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduced a limited form of pattern matching as a preview feature, which becomes a permanent feature in Java SE 16 (March 2021). The first phase of pattern matching is limited to one kind of pattern (type patterns) and one language construct (instanceof), but this is only the first installment in a longer feature arc.

Brian Goetz
on Jan 22, 2021
Development

The Kollected Kode Vicious Review and Author Q&A

Addison Wesley Professional The Kollected Kode Vicious by George V. Neville-Neil aims to provide thoughtful and pragmatic insight into programming to both experienced and younger software professionals on a variety of different topics related to programming. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with author Neville-Neil about his book.

Sergio De Simone George V. Neville-Neil
on Jan 21, 2021
Web Development

Interview about JavascriptLandia, the Openjs New Individual Contributor Program

JavaScriptLandia is a new initiative by the OpenJS foundation that aims at individuals who wish to participate in the activities of the openJS foundations and contribute to open-source projects. To learn more about JavaScriptLandia and the challenges behind open-source projects we talk with Sara Chipps, a member of the OpenJS cross-project council who leads the initiative.

Guy Nesher
on Jan 20, 2021
Culture & Methods

Training from the Back of the Room and Systems Thinking in Kanban Workshops: Q&A with Justyna Pindel

In the book Kanban Compass, Justyna Pindel shares her experiences from applying training from the back of the room and systems thinking in her Kanban workshops. She adapted her training approach by connecting with attendees and providing them suitable exercises to maximize learning opportunities.

Ben Linders Justyna Pindel
on Jan 19, 2021
Culture & Methods

How Teams Can Overcome the Security Challenges of Agile Web App Development

Is the rapid pace of continuous rollouts making it too easy for your organization to cut corners when it comes to ensuring product source code is secure? You may need to reorient your team culture to adopt agile-friendly security processes. True collaboration between security and dev teams is the key to avoiding product vulnerabilities without compromising on your sprint cadence.

Asim Rahal
on Jan 16, 2021
Development

Donkey: a Highly-Performant HTTP Stack for Clojure

Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions.

Yaron Elyashiv
on Jan 12, 2021