React 19, OpenLIT, Mobile Observability, and More
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This week, we're diving into the world of AI-powered development at ANZ Bank. They ran deep tests on how GitHub Copilot influence their devs’ productivity and found out that many are experiencing a significant boost in productivity, code quality, and even job satisfaction.
And that’s a very interesting one - especially because I can see similar benefits among our dev team.
Besides that, we have some more interesting topics In The Queue Today:
So let’s dive in!
Reduce Friction
Preventing Scope Creep: Guide for Managing Outsourced Teams
This guide shares strategies to prevent scope creep, such as setting clear requirements, maintaining effective communication, managing timelines and budgets, ensuring quality assurance, and leveraging tools like static code analysis for early issue detection.
The Impact of AI Tool on Engineering at ANZ Bank
A study exploring the integration of AI tools in software engineering practices within ANZ Bank, which employs over 5000 engineers. Adoption of GitHub Copilot led to a notable boost in productivity, code quality, and job satisfaction, though its impact on code security remained inconclusive.
An Engineer's Guide to Talking to Users
A comprehensive guide to help engineers conduct effective user interviews. It covers key aspects such as preparing for interviews, finding the right users, asking insightful questions, avoiding common mistakes, and leveraging the insights gained to drive product decisions and iterate on solutions.
Deepen Your Expertise
Making My Node.js API Super Fast - Tamar Twena-Stern, Node Congress 2024
In this talk, Tamar shows strategies to improve your REST API performance - starting from new Node.js frameworks that can work faster, better parsing of request parts, efficient work with caching and DB, better parallelism and more.\
Ebook: The CTO’s Ultimate Guide to Next.Js
A complete guide to Next.js, tailored for CTOs and tech leaders. It covers the fundamentals, strategic analysis, advanced techniques, real-world examples, and future-proofing strategies, showcasing how Next.js can improve performance, improve SEO, and simplify development processes.
The First Framework That Lets You Visualize Your React/NodeJS App's Code | Wasp
Wasp helps you visualize a full-stack app, enabling you to easily understand its structure, dependencies, and functionality. It uses a config file and its own compiler to manage a bunch of features for you, like auth, cron jobs, routes, and email sending. Wasp can scaffold entire example apps.
领英推荐
React 19 Beta
React 19 introduces Actions for streamlined data fetching and state updates, along with features like Server Components and improved compatibility. Notably, it enhances support for custom elements, stylesheets, and resource preloading, offering developers a more robust and efficient toolkit. Also: a nice user reaction from Andrew Huth.
TypeScript 5.5 Beta
TypeScript 5.5 Beta introduces significant performance and size optimizations, including monomorphization for the language service and public API, and a reduction in package size. It also adds syntax checking for regular expressions, infers type predicates under certain conditions, and improves ECMAScript module support.
Introducing XState Store
XState Store is a simple & tiny state management library largely inspired by XState. Written in TypeScript, it provides strong event and snapshot types, automatically inferred from your context and transitions. It shares actor APIs with XState, making integration/migration easy if (when) you need to handle more complexity.
Why Coaching (Really) Matters for Engineering Leadership
Coaching is the best way to learn how to be a better leader, says Andy Stanley. It teaches you how to spend time in the other person's mind, curious about their belief systems and mental models until it becomes second nature to do so.
Increase Scalability
Why Does No One Talk About Mobile Observability?
Mobile observability is uniquely challenging, with typically long release cycles, limited resources, and sporadic connectivity. This article proposes a path forward involving a control plane and distributed local storage to address issues like data usage concerns, cardinality, and cost while enabling detailed telemetry retrieval for debugging customer experiences.
openlit/openlit: An Open-Source GenAI and LLM Observability Platform
Introducing OpenLIT, an OpenTelemetry-native GenAI and LLM observability platform that seamlessly integrates with your applications, providing granular insights into performance, costs, and scalability. With just a single line of code, monitor your LLM applications powered by OpenAI, HuggingFace, or vector databases like ChromaDB.
How Village Roadshow Improved DX and UX While Cutting Costs by 50%
A nice high-level overview of how entertainment and theme park company Village Roadshow replaced Sitecore and other legacy CI/CD platforms with Vercel + Contentful, achieving both cost reductions and productivity improvements.
Improved Infrastructure Pricing Is Now Active for New Customers
Vercel announces improved infrastructure pricing with more granular metrics and reduced base prices, helping scale-ups optimize costs. The new pricing model, active for new customers, separates bandwidth and functions, providing better visibility and control. Existing customers' billing transitions between June 25 and July 24, while Enterprise contracts remain unaffected.
Just Cool
Recoding Voyager 1—NASA's Interstellar Explorer Is Finally Making Sense Again
After five months of troubleshooting, NASA engineers have partially restored the 1970s-era computer on Voyager 1, humanity's most distant spacecraft, allowing it to resume transmitting engineering data. Voyager 1 suddenly stopped transmitting its usual stream of data in November, and engineers relocated corrupted code to a different memory location, a complex task given the spacecraft's age and lack of simulators.
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