This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. For over a year, the React team has been working to implement asynchronous rendering. Last month during his talk at JSConf Iceland, Dan unveiled some of the exciting new possibilities async rendering unlocks. Now we’d like to share with…
If you develop applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you probably spend a lot of time in the GCP command line. But as we grow our GCP services, the number of commands and flags is growing by leaps and bounds. So today, we’re introducing a new command line interface (CLI) that lets you discover—and use—all these…
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Signals the rebirth of Dart as a mainstream programming language for mobile and web development
The key to hiring quality employees is with using the Orange Juice Test, which is designed to sort through candidates based on how they can handle difficult situations and tasks.
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Distributing large pieces of software to thousands of machines with a wide variety of configurations can pose a significant operational challenge, requiring a process to identify and copy precisely…
See the end of the post for an October 2018 bug fix update, or read the whole story: Flaky failures are the worst. In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardwa…
With the external release of OCaml 4.07.0 imminent, we in Jane Street’s Tools & Compilers group have been planning what we want to work on for inclusion ...
Tensorflow 2.0 will be a major milestone for the most popular machine learning framework: lots of changes are coming, and all with the aim of making ML accessible to everyone. These changes, however, require for the old users to completely re-learn how to use the framework: this article describes all the (known)…
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We maintain the OpenPGPjs encryption library. After some recent code enhancements, OpenPGPjs underwent an independent security audit, the results of which are discussed in this article.
Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software
Earlier this year, we shared a vision for making AI development faster and more interoperable. Today, during our first-ever PyTorch Developer Conference, we are announcing updates about the growing…
Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.
I get a lot of pitches for "Steam competitors." 99% of them are doomed to failure, but the vast majority are doomed before they even start.
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Today, our CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to Google employees about changes we’re making to better support our employees.
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberies, street and highway robberies, and gas station robberies. Employers steal billions of dollars from their employees…
A list of things that were not supposed to be Turing-complete, but are.
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Just so, generic code is replaced by its concrete instances, which are faster and easier to comprehend (at first).
There are many greplike tools available to choose from. ripgrep is currently the fastest, which folks seem to focus on, but they have different features. Here's a chart to help you see which tools can do what.
From the start, AWS has focused on choice and economy. Driven by a never-ending torrent of customer requests that power our well-known Virtuous Cycle, I think we have delivered on both over the years: Choice – AWS gives you choices in a wide range of dimensions including locations (18 operational geographic regions, 4…
