Byte Brief: Your Monthly Tech Summary #6

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://jakearchibald.com/2024/garbage-collection-and-closures/
  An interesting case of garbage collection and closures in JS that leads to memory leaks
• https://vercel.com/blog/how-google-handles-javascript-throughout-the-indexing-process
  A story about how Google renders and indexes JavaScript
• https://martijnhols.nl/gists/everything-about-google-translate-crashing-react
  You might have faced this as well. Here’s an explanation of how Google Translate crashes React and other web apps
• https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-full-stack-framework/
  Thoughts on how the React library is transforming into a framework
• https://www.totaltypescript.com/how-to-create-an-npm-package
  A good step-by-step guide on how to publish packages nowdays
• https://docs.timetime.in/blog/js-dates-finally-fixed/
  A new Temporal API is coming and will make things easier for developers
• https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/29898
  Ongoing discussion about React 19 disabling prerendering siblings of suspended components breaking common pattern
• https://www.rob.directory/blog/react-from-scratch
  It always good to learn how library works from inside

Node.js

• https://pavel-romanov.com/multithreading-in-nodejs-using-atomics-for-safe-shared-memory-operations
  Great blog post about Atomics and worker_threads
• https://github.com/goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices#readme
  Node.js best practices 2024 edition

Architecture

• https://medium.com/javarevisited/40-must-read-engineering-blogs-to-learn-system-design-and-software-architecture-in-2024-aaa7c4f71ee6
  A good list of different blogs to learn about architecture and system design
• https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/a-crash-course-on-domain-driven-design
  A crash course on DDD by ByteByteGo
• https://roadmap.sh/software-architect
  Software Architect Roadmap. Additionally, this resource includes many other roadmaps as a bonus.

Misc

• https://levelup.gitconnected.com/continuous-learning-framework-802c48c73743
  Continuous learning framework for developers
• https://substack.com/home/post/p-135912597
  Guidelines for designing successful tech organizations
• https://www.benkuhn.net/leadcats/
  Categories of leadership on technical teams