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Performance — Links on React and JavaScript II

Links on React and JavaScript II

How To Use The Vite Build Tool with React — Vite is hot, in part, because it's based on esbuild and wickedly fast. It's from Evan You of Vue fame, but it's

CCChris Coyier·October 1, 2021Performance
Languages — Using the platform

Using the platform

I'm certainly not dogmatic about it, but I think if you can pull of a project with literally zero build process, it feels good while working on it and feels very good when you come back to it months/years later and can just pick up and go.

CCChris Coyier·October 1, 2021Languages
SRE & Ops — Changing the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration

Changing the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration

At Spotify, data rules all. We log a variety of data, from listening history, to results of A/B testing, to page load times so we can analyze and improve the Spotify service. We instrument and log data across every surface that is running Spotify code through a system called the Event Delivery Infrastructure (EDI). Throughout this blog post we make a distinction between the internal users of the E

FSFlavio Santos and Robert Stephenson·October 1, 2021SRE & Ops
Engineering — A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App

A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App

TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every time you added a few songs? One of Spotify’s core products, our mobile app, was designed specifically to leave all of that busywork in the past, changing how we travel with our music forever.

SESpotify Engineering·October 1, 2021Engineering
Networking — Announcing Cloudflare TV as a Service

Announcing Cloudflare TV as a Service

Today we’re excited to announce that we're making the technology we used to build Cloudflare TV available to any other business that wants to run their own 24x7 streaming network.

CCloudflare·September 30, 2021Networking
Distributed — Real-Time Communications at Scale

Real-Time Communications at Scale

We’re making it easier to build and scale real-time communications applications around open technologies, starting with WebRTC Components.

SASilverlock, AchielSilverlock, Achiel·September 30, 2021Distributed
Systems — Creating the Perfect Commit in Git

Creating the Perfect Commit in Git

A commit can be something that helps us stay on top of things. It can be a container for related changes that belong to one and only one topic, and thereby make it easier for us to understand what happened. In this post, we’re talking about what it takes to produce the "perfect" commit.

TGTobias GüntherTobias Günther·September 30, 2021Systems
Frontend — Comparing HTML Preprocessor Features

Comparing HTML Preprocessor Features

Of the languages that browsers speak, I'd wager that the very first one that developers decided needed some additional processing was HTML. Every single CMS

CCChris Coyier·September 30, 2021Frontend
Security — The fugitive in Java: Escaping to Java to escape the Chrome sandbox

The fugitive in Java: Escaping to Java to escape the Chrome sandbox

In this post, I’ll exploit a use-after-free (CVE-2021-30528) in the Chrome browser process that I reported to escape the Chrome sandbox. This is a fairly interesting bug that shows some of the subtleties involved in the interactions between C++ and Java in the Android version of Chrome.

MYMan Yue MoMan Yue Mo·September 30, 2021Security