Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture

Key Takeaways Cellular architecture can provide significant benefits for customers and businesses, such as increased availability, resilience, and increased engineering velocity.

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Type system of the React compiler

If you're wondering what the React compiler is, I recommend reading our recent update post for some background. This post is for anyone curious about the compiler theory behind it. Don't feel pressured to understand everything in this post in order to use the compiler.

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Mental Health in Open Source

TL;DR: I am doing great and not going anywhere. Having some presure but still holding up and trying to improve. Thank you and don’t worry! This is the 4th year since I have started doing Open Source.

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Dynamic Imports in React for Enhanced Performance

In my React development journey, I’ve learned that optimizing performance is crucial. A game-changer for me has been dynamic imports, a JavaScript feature that lets you split your code into smaller chunks, loading them only when needed.

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The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend

There’s a trend I’ve noticed—or at least, I think I’ve noticed. It’s the kind of thing that’s hard to be sure of; the kind that might genuinely be true, or might simply appear to be true if you look at it a certain way. Maybe it’s both.

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4 Steps to Achieving Operational Flow and Improving Quality in Tech Teams

Key Takeaways Take on fewer things; focus on doing a complete job. Dependencies destroy flow. Break down and remove dependencies in order to improve your team(s)'s ability to get things done. Shift your focus toward keeping work moving and away from keeping people busy.

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Building Websites and Building Websites Well · Jens Oliver Meiert

Now, this is a casual exercise, one we can assign as much value to as we like. First and foremost, how something is being done is orthogonal to the doing itself. But even an exercise like this can tell us something about our work—here, of our building of websites. Yes, testing and optimizing get a part of the spotlight—at least for things like test coverage, performance optimization, and SEO.

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