Byte Brief: Your Monthly Tech Summary #2
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2 min readApr 30, 2024
This monthly digest offers a comprehensive overview of the latest trends in the world of technology. With a primary focus on JavaScript, architecture, and sometimes on engineering management topics.
JavaScript
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edB964-YYpE
Fantastic masterclass about streams in Node.js by Matteo Collina. - https://blog.angular.io/angular-and-wiz-are-better-together-91e633d8cd5a
I love to see how significantly Angular has improved in the last couple of years, and now Google is merging Angular with the Wiz framework. - https://szymonrybczak.dev/blog/bringing-react-server-components-to-react-native
Interesting thoughts about bringing React Server Components into the React Native world. - https://vercel.com/blog/building-an-interactive-3d-event-badge-with-react-three-fiber
A tutorial on building an interactive 3D event badge with React Three Fiber.
React
- https://react.dev/blog/2024/04/25/react-19
React 19 beta is now available on npm, great overview of all the new APIs and improvements in the blog post. - https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/6742
A new way to handle errors in React 19. This link contains WIP documentation and examples. - https://nextjs.org/blog/next-14-2
A new Next.js release with a bunch of good improvements.
Performance
- https://www.sabatino.dev/bfcache-explained
Quite a powerful technique to improve website responsiveness when navigating back and forth. Many developers forget about the bfcache.
CSS
- https://dev.37signals.com/modern-css-patterns-and-techniques-in-campfire/
Great article about the adaptation of ‘new’ CSS styles as part of modern CSS patterns.
Architecture
- https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/evolution-of-java-usage-at-netflix
Amazing article about evolution of java usage at Netflix - https://newsletter.systemdesign.one/p/amazon-dynamo-architecture
How amazon involved their simple DB solution into dynamo architecture. Quite fascinating reading. - https://medium.com/@yt-cloudwaydigital/from-software-developer-to-software-architect-roadmap-to-success-695951521d9b
A robust roadmap from Software Engineer to Solutions Architect. - https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/reddits-architecture-the-evolutionary
Reddit’s architectural journey. Their architecture is more complex than you might imagine.
Extra
- https://newsletter.techleadmentor.com/p/5-non-verbal-behaviors-killing-team
List 5 non-verbal behaviors detrimental to team health along with strategies to mitigate their impact. - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584859
Paper focused on “10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning.” It covers how human memory and learning work and what the differences are between beginners and experts. Here is a great overview of this paper by Abi Noda. - https://37signals.com/how-we-communicate
Guide to Internal Communication by 37 Signals.