In the recent study, GitHub compared the different clone options to determine how certain options affect Git performance. The study found that when focusing on a single repository, the best approach is to do a full clone and then always perform a full fetch into that clone. Also, calculating a shallow fetch is computationally more … continue reading
Apache Kafka 2.7.0 is now available with new features and enhancements. Kafka is a stream-processing software platform. The release makes progress towards replacing ZooKeeper with KIP-497. According to the team, this will add a new inter-broker API for altering ISR. Other features include the addition of the Core Raft implementation and seven KIPs in active … continue reading
Researchers at MIT found that reading code doesn’t activate the same parts of the brain as language processing, despite the similarities that the two tasks share such as learning new symbols and terms. While it is more akin to the multiple demand network, which is often used for solving math problems or crossword puzzles, reading … continue reading
The first release candidate of the next version of the programming language Ruby is now available. Ruby 3.0.0 RC1 introduces a number of new features, such as RBS, TypeProf, Ractor, and Fiber Scheduler. RBS is a language for describing types of Ruby programs, and it enables developers to document the definitions of classes and modules. … continue reading
The Google Web Vitals services are now included in the Sentry application monitoring solution. It includes agentless frontend performance monitoring for serverless, PHP, Node, and Ruby-based applications. “Customer issues happen at the application level, and that is where developers have the most control,” said Milin Desai, the CEO of Sentry. “That’s why we’re excited to … continue reading
As the business world pivots to meet the new demands and challenges of COVID-19, so too has the retail world reimagined its biggest shopping season of the year. Instead of enticing shoppers to cram the stores on one or two special days for deals and discounts, holiday shopping has engulfed the season with deals spread … continue reading
GitHub has announced that Code Search will now only index repositories with recent activity. This means that only repositories that have had a commit or shown up in a search in the past year will be indexed. If not, the repository will be purged from the index. According to GitHub, this will enable Code Search … continue reading
Performance testing company Stormforge has launched a new open-source project designed to improve and advance application performance and optimization test creation. The project, VHS, records live traffic to test performance against “reality instead of just an educated guess,” Noah Abrahams, open source advocate at StormForge, explained in a post. “VHS started as a project that … continue reading
The Telco industry today is facing more challenges than ever before, with new and emerging technologies like 5G coming onboard and unprecedented demand for connectivity, especially during the current pandemic. Building applications and services as quickly as possible is important for every industry, but speed alone is hardly ever an arbiter of success. What’s needed … continue reading
A key focus of improving the Rust language in 2020 has been on stabilizing features, and according to the newly released Rust 2020 Survey, those efforts have paid off. Survey respondents in general felt that stability of the language has been improving. The rust-analyzer and IntelliJ Rust plugin were key projects highlighted in the survey … continue reading
Incident management might finally be coming into its own, with the announcement today by startup Kintaba that it is releasing a feature to help organizations automate their decision-making processes during security or performance incidents, or outages. Traditional incident management required organizations to cobble together a set of tools for responding to issues. Often, that would … continue reading
Google has announced version 1.0 of gRPC Kotlin for Android and Cloud. gRPC is an open-source universal RPC framework. “Kotlin is now the fourth “most loved” programming language with millions of developers using it for Android, server-side / cloud backends, and various other target runtimes. At Google, we’ve been building more of our apps and … continue reading
AWS is enabling teams to address application weaknesses with the introduction of the AWS Fault Injection Simulator at is virtual AWS re:Invent 2020 conference this week. The simulator is a chaos engineering tool expected to be generally available in 2021. According to the company, the new offering will come packed with pre-built templates for creating … continue reading
Vercel has announced a $40 million round of funding to “help everyone build the next web.” Vercel is a cloud platform for static sites and serverless functions that focuses on helping front-end development. The round of funding was led by GV and included Greenoaks Capital, Bedrock Capital, Geodesic Capital, Accel Partners and CRV. The company … continue reading
