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August 31, 2018

Why You Should Use API Gateway Proxy Integration With Lambda

"Ben Kehoe recently wrote a post about AWS API Gateway to Lambda integration: How you should — and should not — use API Gateway proxy integration with Lambda. In his post, Ben gave a few reasons why he believes using API Gateway Proxy Integration is an anti-pattern."

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August 29, 2018

How to use AWS Fargate and Lambda for long-running processes in a Serverless app

"AWS dropped so many serverless announcements at re:Invent, the community is still scrambling to make sense of them all. This post is all about AWS Fargate. In this article, I will show you how to create an end-to-end serverless application that extracts thumbnails from video files."

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August 1, 2018

Guys, REST APIs are not Databases

"One of the common mistakes developers make regarding REST API’s is to treat them as databases. They’re not! Visit any web framework documentation and at some point you’ll bump into a magic way of mapping database CRUD operations of ORM models with REST API endpoints."

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July 28, 2018

Artificial intelligence can predict your personality… simply by tracking your eyes

"It’s often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we feel. Now, new research reveals that your eyes may also be an indicator of your personality type, simply by the way they move."

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July 26, 2018

New Study: Omega-3s Can Help Keep Kids Out of Trouble

"Contacts for media: Christine Gillette, 978-934-2209 or [email protected] and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944 or [email protected] LOWELL, Mass."

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July 11, 2018

Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar

"Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably already know that microservices is the architecture du jour. Coming of age alongside this trend, Segment adopted this as a best practice early-on, which served us well in some cases, and, as you’ll soon learn, not so well in others."

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July 10, 2018

So I’ve been making web stuff for a quarter of a century now

"As I’m sitting down here on a NeXT computer (in honor of the machine the web was born on!) to write this—I admit, yes, computers are faster now. But the basics haven’t changed."

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July 7, 2018

Back-and-forth exchanges boost children’s brain response to language

"A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than children from lower-income families."

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July 6, 2018

Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

"Picking up new frameworks and libraries is exciting but also stressful. Even after some evaluation you never really know what skeletons you’re going to find out down the road. My honeymoon period is long over." read full text »

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July 6, 2018

Node.js APIs on AWS — the pros and cons of Express versus Serverless

"TL;DR Switching from Express to Serverless has completely transformed our delivery over the past 6 months. Pros: reduced cost | out-of-the-box deployment scalability and monitoring | lightning-fast development. Cons: loss of control | the enigmatic Lambda runtime | young ecosystem | no out-of-the-box zero-downtime deployment." read full text »

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June 26, 2018

When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong

"The drive to the little white dome on the northern slope of Mauna Loa is a bumpy one. Mauna Loa, the “Long Mountain,” is a colossal volcano that covers half of the island of Hawaii. The rocky terrain, rusty brown and deep red, crunches beneath car tires and jostles passengers."

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June 26, 2018

CSS Paint API

"CSS Paint API (also known as “CSS Custom Paint” or “Houdini’s paint worklet”) is about to be enabled by default in Chrome Stable. What is it? What can you do with it? And how does it work? Well, read on, will ya’…"

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June 23, 2018

How Jupiter May Have Gifted Early Earth With Water

"When it comes to the early days of our solar system, Jupiter holds a dubious reputation. In some ways, the giant served as Earth’s protector, its gravity launching dangerous debris away from the rocky planets."

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June 19, 2018

Grid

"CSS Grid is a two-dimensional layout system created specifically to tackle grid-based user interfaces on the web. Grids are fundamental to the design of layouts."

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June 19, 2018

What’s Next for Mobile at Airbnb

"This is the fifth in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. Even while experimenting with React Native, we continued to accelerate our efforts on native as well."

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June 19, 2018

Sunsetting React Native

"This is the fourth in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb.Where are we today?"

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June 19, 2018

Building a Cross-Platform Mobile Team

"This is the third in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb.In addition to the countless technical pros and cons of React Native, we learned a ton about what React Native means for an engineering organization."

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June 19, 2018

React Native at Airbnb: The Technology

"This is the second in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. React Native itself is a relatively new and fast-moving platform in the cross-section of Android, iOS, web, and cross-platform frameworks."

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June 19, 2018

React Native at Airbnb

"This is the first in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. When Airbnb launched 10 years ago, smartphones were in their infancy."

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June 19, 2018

A stand against the “easy” nodejs backend

"Now, that’s not to say that we think pal is hard to learn—quite the opposite! (As far as we can tell, folks find it delightful.) We just acknowledge that we have probably not solved all the hardest problems that you have in front of you as you embark on authoring your next web service."

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