JS.weekly() => #20

Here are the top three articles we found interesting this week:

Back to the Future with Relational NoSQL

Key takeaways:

• The database world is undergoing a renaissance as the primitives of the legacy RDBMS (ACID transactions, relations, constraints, normalized modeling) are being rebuilt for a distributed world.
• These new systems are technically CP, not AP, but are extremely fault-tolerant.
• Most of these systems rely on Google’s Spanner or Percolator protocols, which use two-phase locking and require physically synchronized clocks to guarantee consistency.
• Some systems, like FaunaDB, take a pre-commit approach based on the Calvin protocol, which offers stronger guarantees without specialized hardware.
• In either case, systems developers no longer have to give up transactions to get scale and availability in the real world.

Enhance the Way a Web Page Loads With CSS Animations

Nice tutorial on how to make your website fancier.

Rebuilding Redux with Hooks and Context

A simple global state management package based on React constructs.

There is always something interesting on Twitter:

We are adding new libraries to JavaScripting.com every week. Here is one worth checking out:

Apify Js

The scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript. Enables development of data extraction and web automation jobs (not only) with headless Chrome and Puppeteer.

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