Server-Side Web Development

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Django 3.0 released with built-in async functionality and support for MariaDB and Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8

Yesterday, Django released its latest major update - Django 3.0. Django is a Python-based web framework designed to help developers…

4 years ago

Apple shares tentative goals for WebKit 2020

Apple has released a list of tentative goals for WebKit in 2020 catering to WebKit users as well as Web,…

4 years ago

Introducing Stateful Functions, an OS framework to easily build and orchestrate distributed stateful apps, by Apache Flink’s Ververica

Last week, Apache Flink’s stream processing company Ververica announced the launch of Stateful Functions. It is an open source framework…

5 years ago

Cloudflare and Google Chrome add HTTP/3 and QUIC support; Mozilla Firefox soon to follow suit

Major web companies are adopting HTTP/3, the latest iteration of the HTTP protocol, in their experimental as well as production…

5 years ago

Google’s V8 JavaScript engine adds support for top-level await

Yesterday, Joshua Litt from the Google Chromium team announced to add support for top-level await in V8. V8 is Google’s…

5 years ago

Mozilla introduces Neqo, Rust implementation for QUIC, new http protocol

Two months ago, Mozilla introduced Neqo, code written in Rust to implement QUIC, a new protocol for the web developed…

5 years ago

New memory usage optimizations implemented in V8 Lite can also benefit V8

V8 Lite was released in late 2018 in V8 version 7.3 to dramatically reduce V8’s memory usage. V8 is Google’s…

5 years ago

The Tor Project on browser fingerprinting and how it is taking stand against it

In a blog post shared on Wednesday, Pierre Laperdrix, a postdoctoral researcher in the Secure Web Applications Group at CISPA,…

5 years ago

Wasmer’s first Postgres extension to run WebAssembly is here!

Wasmer, the WebAssembly runtime have been successfully embedded in many languages like Rust, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Go. Yesterday, Ivan…

5 years ago

JavaScript will soon support optional chaining operator as its ECMAScript proposal reaches stage 3

Last month, the ECMAScript proposal for optional chaining operator reached stage 3 of the TC39 process. This essentially means that…

5 years ago