A VS Code Extension For Traversing Your React Component Hierarchy

React is a powerful tool for building your frontend applications, but at scale navigating the hierarchy of your components may be painful. Sapling aims to change that. Modern React applications are huge. Facebook is built with more than 50,000 components.

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Groot: eBay’s Event-graph-based Approach for Root Cause Analysis

As large-scale distributed microservice systems continue to power more of today’s businesses, it has become even more important to detect any anomalies in these systems and efficiently diagnose their root causes to ensure high system availability.

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Applications Instead of Libraries (Part 1)

Every day, thousands of suppliers use Partner Home, the enterprise platform where companies who conduct business with Wayfair can manage their listings, pricing, and operations.

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Should engineering managers be technical?

They continued, ‘Like, shouldn’t we be able to hire people into these engineering management roles if they have management skills, but not necessarily any software engineering skills? Why do we treat one skillset as non-negotiable, and the other as easily learnable? And since we’re always tell

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Scalable logging for microservices

A scalable and feature-rich log management and exploration platform is imperative for the successful operations of any medium to large backend engineering team. It is one of the most important, but often neglected tool for infrastructure observability.

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JavaScript Object Immutability

Object immutability is an important concept in any programming language. It restricts object modifications and prevents unwanted changes. In this article, I will discuss how we can implement object immutability in JavaScript using freeze() and seal() methods.

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Why You May Want Runtime Config for Your SPA's Frontend

My software team recently needed runtime configuration in our web app’s frontend. Here, I’ll describe what that means and how we achieved it. For example, when your backend server retrieves its database connection string from an environment variable, that’s runtime config.

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Are You Dealing with Imposter Syndrome? Lean Into It

I fully expected to be… new at my job when I came to AO. I started on a greenfield project and felt comfortable contributing to the project within the first couple of weeks. I still needed help, but I was feeling pretty good about the project.

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Penetration and Security in JavaScript

Are you sure you are ensuring your code to be used as intended? Are you preventing it from beeing used in a malicious way? If what comes your way is putting guards in your functions, this post will open up a world for you as this one was for me. Using checks is not enough.

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How We Build Micro Frontends With Lattice

Written by Michael Possumato, Nick Tomlin, Jordan Andree, Andrew Shim, and Rahul Pilani. As we continue to grow here at Netflix, the needs of Revenue and Growth Engineering are rapidly evolving; and our tools must also evolve just as rapidly.

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