Function-as-a-Service or Serverless is the most economical way to run code and use the cloud resources to the minimum. The serverless approach runs the code when a request is received. The code boots up, executes, handles the requests, and shuts down. Thus, utilizing the cloud resources to the optimum. This provides a highly available, scalable architecture, at the most optimal costs. However, serverless architecture demands a faster boot, quicker execution, and shutdown.
GraalVM native images (ahead of time) is the best runtime. GraalVM native images have a very small footprint, they are fast to boot and they come with embedded VM (Substrate VM).
Today, it is very rare that a bank does not have an online presence; all the banks have various mobile and web applications to help their customers view account balance online, do transactions, pay utility bills, and access many other services.
To stay competitive in the market and also to gain customer satisfaction, designing, and then providing error-free, user-friendly application is very crucial. To achieve this, the testing team plays a vital role during the development process; they need to test the system with the utmost caution.
Practicing an API policy to API invocations sums treating overhead, which rises in increased latency (decreased response time) as seen by API clients. Depending on the type of API policy, that latency is up to 0.38 milliseconds (approx.) per HTTP request.
Improvement in HTTP request-response latency into the application of several API policies, which are enforced set in the API implementation.
Framing SRE metrics for building or scaling a product is quite a daunting task.
In an SRE journey, the process of embracing risks and resolving them by proper service-level metrics are known to be the best way to achieve reliability.
I don’t know Ken, so I feel a little bad for being harsh. But I haven’t changed how I feel. Saying “Web browsers are for viewing documents” is silly to me at this point, and suggesting it’s “the biggest wrong turn in the history of computing” feels like “your career in web development is invalid” and when people dig at what I do, I notoriously don’t take it well.
The point is silly anyway. Ken posted this on Twitter-dot-com, and then followed up with a link to job postings. I hope we all can see that Ken was literally leveraging the not-just-a-document-viewer nature of the web to help spread his message and help himself. It feels like saying “cars are bad” and then getting in your car to go to the grocery store.
Ship: sailed. The web is incredibly feature-rich far beyond viewing documents. I know the argument is that this was a mistake, not that web browsers aren’t currently capable of more. If that’s true though, what would you have the web do? Start stripping away features? Should we strip browsers down to document viewers? Maybe we just hand the keys to Facebook and we’ll just do whatever they say we should (lolz).
A super-capable open web is excellent. It means we can build things on open standards on the open web rather than things on proprietary technologies in walled gardens. It’s the better place to build things. URLs alone are a reason to build on the web.
I relate with the author’s passion for keeping the open web relevant, and with the concern that going too slow with enhancing the web with new features will make it irrelevant. This is augmented by my dislike of app stores and other walled gardens. But as a user I can relate to the opposite perspective — I get dizzy sometimes when I don’t know what websites I’m browsing are capable or not capable of doing, and I find platform restrictions and auditing to be comforting.
Maybe we just take it slow and do things carefully. Good slow. Slow, like brisket.
We’re doing that now, if by accident. Google forges ahead extremely quickly. Apple says hold on there, there are security issues here. And a smidge of vice-versa. I’d point out the other forces at work, but I guess we’re kinda down to two major browser vendor players. Not to discount Mozilla, but the choices they make with the web platform don’t affect the momentum of the web all that much at the moment.
This is a simple pascal program I wrote for a cashier. Please note that this is only a basic level program code and can't actually be used for commercial use.
Apple has announced several updates to its App Store Review Guidelines that portend forthcoming changes to the platform. These guidelines include mention of a new App Tracking Transparency feature which has been long rumored as an attempt to improve platform privacy.
Unbounded data refers to continuous, never-ending data streams with no beginning or end. They are made available over time. Anyone who wishes to act upon them can do without downloading them first.
As Martin Kleppmann stated in his famous book, unbounded data will never “complete” in any meaningful way.
Microservices have been a hype topic for the last several years, and many developers are using this concept when structuring and implementing code nowadays. However, as always, every technology has advantages and disadvantages. So when I’m asked whether microservices architectures make sense, my answer is: It depends!
Cloud-native architectures and microservices clearly have a lot of benefits. One benefit is the simplicity of smaller modules. For example, I used to work on a product that had grown for many years and it had several million lines of code. Developers were scared to change even a few lines, since the effects were not predictable. As a result, productivity was very low. Smaller services would certainly have helped a lot to handle the complexity.
In this series of posts, you will find all the resources needed to transform or create an Alexa Skill as a NodeJS Express app ready to run on Kubernetes. These are the two possible options you can use for running your Alexa Skill on Kubernetes:
In the video below, we take a closer look at the State design pattern in Java, including an introduction, real-time examples, a class/sequence diagram, implementation, and other key points. Let's get started!
Using CSS custom properties for the WordPress admin color scheme system is listed for the WordPress 5.7 milestone. It feels low-key enough that most would pass it over as a simple upgrade to keep up with the times. However, this feature can create ripples that spread and benefit the ecosystem in the years to come.
Kirsty Burgoine, a front-end developer at Human Made, announced the introduction of CSS custom properties for the WordPress admin. The initial work landed in a ticket for iterating on the admin color schemes. The first stage reduced the color palette from 199 colors down to 99, creating a more reasonable list to work from.
The second stage will look at how to implement a CSS custom properties system that makes sense. That means doing the dreaded work of naming things. The Core CSS team is currently looking for feedback on how to best handle property names going forward and are open to alternative implementation suggestions.
Once custom properties are in place, the new system could open a world of possibilities in the long term.
Thinking Ahead
My hopes of having WordPress admin themes have lived and died on each piece of news around custom color schemes, imaginative mockups, and the general hype of projects that never lived up to their promise. I may well be getting my hopes up again.
Developers have been able to register custom admin color schemes since WordPress 2.5, but it was never an ideal system.
One of my favorite plugins is Admin Color Schemes, which is maintained by designers from the core WordPress team. It adds several schemes for users to choose from.
Cruise scheme from the Admin Color Schemes plugin.
Sass, which is used to generate the admin color schemes in core today, has simplified the process. However, third-party developers still need to make sure their custom schemes remain updated between WordPress versions. The system is not built to protect against future compatibility issues.
CSS custom properties change the game. With their widespread use and compatibility with modern browsers, custom admin theming — at least color scheming — is much more of a reality.
I have not been this excited about the possibility of something new since Tung Do released his short-lived DP Dashboard plugin in 2013. Now, a few days shy of eight years since its initial beta testing phase, I once again have some hope.
Original beta design of the DP Dashboard plugin.
Given the little wisdom I have accumulated over the years, I now see that completely custom admin themes never led to the right path. I am happy we never went down it. Administration UIs need to work consistently for users and adapt to changes over time. Custom themes were a maintenance nightmare every time WordPress added a feature. However, a system built on CSS custom properties means that customizations do not break — or break far less often — as the software’s UI evolves.
While the focus right now is on color schemes, nothing is stopping WordPress from moving onto other features in the future. It is possible to set up a global styles system for designers to skin the admin in all kinds of interesting ways without breaking anything. Minor options like the border-radius of buttons, font-family choices, or heading font-sizes would be easy to roll in over time.
As the block system continues to replace parts of the WordPress admin, custom admin skins will be far easier to maintain. Because everything in the block system is built as a component, it better future-proofs against back-compatibility issues.
There is a long and winding path toward a feature-complete admin skinning system. However, it is not outside the realm of possibility.
I look forward to the day when theme authors can easily roll out admin designs that match the front end. Perhaps integration with the block system’s theme.json is a possibility. I would not mind seeing a separate admin theme directory in the future either. The use case may be too niche at this point, but it never hurts to keep the idea in the back of everyone’s mind.
If nothing else, the move to custom properties lets the team clean up the admin CSS and makes it easier to add custom color schemes. That is a win for the WordPress project.
One was the footer of an (older) U.S. Government website:
The other was the navigation for AWS services from the AWS Console:
It’s weird how much they use the word “Amazon” and “AWS” when you’re literally logged into AWS.
Both of them have that vibe of: holy crap we have a lot of stuff, I guess we’ll just make a massive grid of links to it all.
The difference is the AWS Console one has a search bar at the top of it. Its primary function is finding things in that menu (but it does search the wider site as well):
They also have a “favorites” UI for saving the ones you use the most.
The “search a list of things already on the page” idea reminds me of that classic jQuery contains selector. Please allow me:
A component architecture is a type of application architecture composed of independent, modular, and reusable building blocks called components. When designing an app following component-based architecture principles, developers combine, reuse, and version these objects, rather than building every inch of an app from scratch.
Let’s be honest: in times of uncertainty where speed is paramount, meeting the increasing app demand while maintaining complex technology is a herculean task for any development team. The value proposition of a component-based architecture is that it boosts application development time and reduces code fragmentation.
Even the smallest of vulnerabilities on your WordPress site can be easily exploited by hackers and used to hijack your entire website. This can cause severe damage through the actions of stealing data, sending spam, or even defacing pages. That’s also not to mention that you risk having your site blacklisted by Google if it’s […]
Ever wondered how the richest of the rich manage to scale up their profit and welcome the very new year with the same zest and confidence? The answer is they live their life with perseverance and passion. Nothing’s too easy unless you work hard for it. Many of the billionaires seem to have accepted this as their motto early in their life and are reaping the benefits of the same now.
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Even the smallest of vulnerabilities on your WordPress site can be easily exploited by hackers and used to hijack your entire website. This can cause severe damage through the actions of stealing data, sending spam, or even defacing pages. That’s also not to mention that you risk having your site blacklisted by Google if it’s […]