Simple React Patterns

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I've been writing React applications for a few years now, and I've noticed that some patterns tend to repeat themselves. In this post, I'll review these patterns which will summarize about 99% of the React code I write every day. As a sample spec, let's…

10 November 2017

Programming Language Go Turns 8

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Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! Check out Slashdot on Minds! | Migrate from GitHub to SourceForge quickly and easily with Check out all of SourceForge’s recent improvements. On this day, eight…

10 November 2017

An engineer’s guide to cloud capacity planning

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If you’re a small company with big dreams for the future, one of the biggest advantages cloud infrastructure providers have over traditional provisioning systems is the flexibility they offer you to adjust the resources your application uses. It no longer…

8 November 2017

The GraphQL stack: How everything fits together

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There are 3 main factors that make GraphQL stand out from all other API technologies: GraphQL has a well-specified query language, which is a great way to describe data requirements, and a well-defined schema, which exposes API capabilities. It’s the only…

8 November 2017

10 iPhone apps every drone pilot should have

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Getting interested in drones for pleasure or work? There are a number of great apps out there that can help make your flight planning a lot easier, and here are 10 that I’ve personally had a lot of luck with:

7 November 2017

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL adds high availability and replication

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Both primary and standby instances of Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL send a heartbeat signal, which is evaluated to define an availability state for the master instance. Cloud SQL monitors the heartbeats, and if it doesn’t detect multiple heartbeats from the…

7 November 2017

Show HN: Serverless logging to S3

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A library to persist messages on S3 using serverless architecture. It is mainly targeted at cheaply archiving low-volume, sporadic events from applications without a need to spin additional infrastructure. Not a replacement for general logging systems or…

7 November 2017

The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system

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SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, Calif. -- In the common retelling of Apple's history, it was Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's second computer, the Apple II, that launched their fledgling company toward stratospheric growth and financial success. The machine's triumph…

6 November 2017

The end of the cloud is coming

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We’re facing the end of the cloud. It’s a bold statement, I know, and maybe it even sounds a little mad. But bear with me. The conventional wisdom about running server applications, be it web apps or mobile app backends, is that the future is in the…

6 November 2017