Zoom on Web: WebAssembly SIMD, WebTransport, and WebCodecs

InfoQ - Architecture & Design

At the recent web.dev live event, Google V8 product manager Thomas Nattestad explained some of the proposed additions to the web to support Zoom and other video conferencing features within the web browser. By Dylan Schiemann

18 August 2020

The API wars – 16 years later

Planet KDE

It is more than 16 years since Joel Spolsky wrote How Microsoft Lost the API War. The bonds of the win32 API lock-in is broken and the free web is here to take over. The web has come a long way in the past 16 years. Richer APIs, dramatic performance…

17 August 2020

Next.js 9.5 Improves Static Site Regeneration Performance

InfoQ - Architecture & Design

Next.js, the open-source React-based framework from Vercel, adds several static site generation performance improvements in the Next.js 9.5 release. The release also allows developers to optionally opt-in to Webpack 5 beta for smaller and faster builds. By…

17 August 2020

Next.js 9.5 Improves Static Site Regeneration Performance

InfoQ

Next.js, the open-source React-based framework from Vercel, adds several static site generation performance improvements in the Next.js 9.5 release. The release also allows developers to optionally opt-in to Webpack 5 beta for smaller and faster builds. By…

17 August 2020

Go 1.15 Improves the Go Linker, Small Object Allocation, and More

InfoQ - Development

The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.15, focuses on improving the toolchain, runtime, and core libraries. Besides improving the linker and allocation for small objects, Go 1.15 deprecates X.509 CommonName, supports a new embedded tzdata package, and…

16 August 2020