Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models

The internet is changing once again: it is becoming more fragmented as the separation between sources of knowledge and how users interact with that knowledge grows. Looking back a few decades, search-based navigation of knowledge was rocky for knowledge producers.

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Tales of Performance Engineering

At Mercado Libre, creating value for our users is a principle that defines our culture. For this reason, optimizing the performance of our systems is a key aspect, since it allows us to improve the experience of our users. These optimizations also allow us to reduce costs by increasing efficiency.

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A Scalable Solution for Hosting Multiple Micro-Frontend Applications with Git Submodules and AWS

In large-scale front-end projects, managing multiple micro-frontend applications efficiently is a common challenge. By leveraging NX Module Federation along with Git submodules, AWS S3, CloudFront, and Docker, we can create a scalable and maintainable architecture that allows independent teams to own, build, and deploy their micro-frontends while maintaining consistency across the system.

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In the future using top-level await might be a BC break in Node

Node 23 was released this week, and the hot ticket item probably is the fact that you can now require() files that use ESM (import/export). This is called a dynamic import and it’s extra annoying, because you can’t just put this at the top of your file.

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The story of web framework Hono, from the creator of Hono

Hono is a fast, lightweight web framework that runs anywhere JavaScript does, built with Web Standards. Of course, it runs on Cloudflare Workers. It was three years ago, in December 2021.

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Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components

Because this essay is over 11 000 words long(!) I’ve made a convenience EPUB file for offline reading. (EPUB only! No PDF this time.) You can download it over on the fulfilment service I use, Lemon Squeezy, with the option to pay what you want if you feel the urge to support my writing.

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Build A Static RSS Reader To Fight Your Inner FOMO

RSS is a classic technology that fetches content from websites and feeds it to anyone who subscribes to it with a URL. It’s based on XML, and we can use it to consume the feeds in our own apps. Karin Hendrikse demonstrates how to do exactly that with a static site you can use as your personal RSS reader.

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