The best 360-degree camera

Engadget

By Geoffrey Morrison This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, Wirecutter and Engadget may earn affiliate commission. Read the full 3060-degree camera guide here....

31 March 2019

Scaling Graphite at Booking.com

InfoQ - DevOps

Booking.com's engineering team scaled their Graphite deployment from a small cluster to one that handles millions of metrics per second. Along the way, they modified and optimized Graphite's core components - the carbon-relay and carbon-cache, and the…

30 March 2019

Presentation: Lessons from 300k+ Lines of Infrastructure Code

InfoQ - DevOps

Yevgeniy Brikman shares key lessons from the “Infrastructure Cookbook” they developed at Gruntwork while creating and maintaining a library of over 300,000 lines of infrastructure code used in production by hundreds of companies. Topics include how to…

30 March 2019

TypeScript 3.4

Hacker News

Today we’re happy to announce the availability of TypeScript 3.4! If you haven’t yet used TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on JavaScript that adds optional static types. The TypeScript project provides a compiler that checks your programs based on…

30 March 2019

TypeScript 3.4 Supports Incremental Builds and globalThis

InfoQ - JavaScript

The TypeScript team announces the release of TypeScript 3.4, including faster incremental builds, improvements for higher order type inference of generic functions, and support for ES.Next 'globalThis'. By Dylan Schiemann

30 March 2019

Apple iPad mini review (2019): Still the best small tablet

Engadget

When Apple announced the first iPad mini in 2012, the tablet's purpose was clear: it squeezed just about everything that made the regular iPad such a pleasure to use into a smaller, cheaper package. It's no wonder the mini built such a devoted fo...

29 March 2019