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Exploring React Server Components (RSCs)? This new server-first paradigm [5] is tricky — but it can help you significantly improve developer experience and app performance. Join Cloudflare’s free, half-day workshop [5] to understand RSCs work behind-the-scenes, and how you can use them in your day-to-day dev work. You’ll also gain insight into new deployment patterns made possible by innovations in the platform space.
Tech companies like Google and LinkedIn measure developer productivity in different ways. Common metrics in the industry that are commonly tracked as proxies for productivity are ease of delivery, experiment velocity, and the stability of services and apps. However, quantitative metrics alone can’t describe the full picture. Teams should start with defining specific goals and problems first, then pick the right quantitative and qualitative metrics for those goals.
Stripe built a real-time microsite for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2023 to provide detailed insights into its core business using Vercel. The microsite displayed Stripe's reliability, transaction volumes, and global activity during this period. The company used Next.js, SWR, and ISR to create the site fast, and it used strategies like Stale-While-Revalidate (SWR) and Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) to manage real-time data and interactions while minimizing backend queries.
To make your LinkedIn profile better, you should have a high-quality profile picture and a detailed skills list. To stand out and build a stronger LinkedIn network, developers should engage with others and connect with people through direct messages. For the resume, one should focus on describing their measurable impacts at their job and showcase achievements.
This author sold his successful startup because he was seeking freedom from certain aspects of the business. However, after the sale, he found himself lost. He started having trouble with his sense of self and purpose. Now, he recommends people to understand their motivations and values when starting something.
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When your code has a lot of API dependencies, flexible and reliable API mocking [11] becomes crucial. Companies like Ingenico, IBM, and BiltCard use WireMock Cloud [11] to simulate real-world API scenarios (including edge cases and faults), test and deploy new code, and seamlessly move to production when the API is ready.
Tinybench is a small, lightweight benchmarking library for JavaScript.
Maybe is an open-source personal finance app that used to be a (failed) startup. It features net worth tracking, financial account syncing, investment benchmarking, and more. The app is built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Node, Express, and Postgres.
Redux Toolkit has become the standard method for creating Redux apps, reducing boilerplate code and streamlining state management. The key changes in Redux Toolkit 2.0 include modernization, better workflow, dependency updates, and the introduction of new features like lazy loading slices and dynamic middleware.
It’s difficult to represent empty slices of memory in languages like C, C++, and Rust. The differences in rules and behaviors in these languages can cause compatibility issues when working with Foreign Function Interfaces (FFIs). To make empty slices less complicated, Rust needs to improve its slice representation and have FFI helpers introduced into its standard library.
OpenAI built its initial moat on the cost of training large models because the general perception in the industry was that large models meant higher performance. However, the Chinchilla paper (published by Google DeepMind researchers) proved that bigger models are not necessarily better. Now, OpenAI is defending its moat by creating network effects around ChatGPT with the release of the GPT Store, ChatGPT Plugins, and the ChatGPT Team plan for enterprises.
Apple made a major change to its US iOS App Store policies that now allows developers to direct customers to non-App Store purchasing options for digital products. However, Apple still intends to collect a hefty 12-27% commission on revenue that’s brought in this way.
Chrome for Developers provides a guide for automating browser testing for Web AI applications and other applications that utilize WebGPU and WebGL.
It’s important to dig deeper when asking questions to uncover users' true needs when building tools for developers. The litmus test for dev tools usually is if it exists in a big company but doesn’t externally.