Today, we are releasing React 17! We’ve written at length about the role of the React 17 release and the changes it contains in the React 17 RC blog post. This post is a brief summary of it, so if you’ve already read the RC post, you can skip this one. 

Under the sea, Microsoft tests a datacenter that’s quick to deploy, could provide internet connectivity for years  

In this post, we introduced the idea that not all performance optimisations need to be complex to implement. In this example, we optimised the ToUrl method of the NEST library by conditionally avoiding executing code we know would cause allocations.  

This post will be comparing the performance of RyuJIT in .NET Framework 4.6.2 to its performance in .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework 4.7.1.  

The U.S. defense industry is the inventor of numerous software processes and even a programming language. This series discusses the challenges to using agile in the U.S. defense industry and some ways agile has made a difference. 

This bug-fix update resolves the following issues:

ReSharper Build couldn’t build a project if MSBuild was installed as part of Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 (RSRP-472694).
Visual Studio froze on JavaScript debugging (RSRP-472802).
Inconsistent default state around ‘Inconsistent Naming‘ inspection (RSRP-472812).
A false positive for NUnit TestCase (RSRP-472787).
Unit test coverage highlighting is not shown for projects targeting .NET Framework 3.5 and lower (DCVR-9525).
False “Cannot convert type” error for Promise in TypeScript.
Find Usages did not process bodies of #define macros when looking for textual occurrences (RSCPP-24977).
“Remove unused parameter” quick-fix was broken in C++ (RSCPP-25094).
 

A next-level validation is domain validation, or as I've often seen referred, "business rule validation". This is more of a system state validation, "can I affect the change to my system based on the current state of my system". I might be checking the state of a single entity, a group of entities, an entire collection of entities, or the entire system. The key here is I'm not checking the request against itself, but against the system state.  

This post will discuss best practices for managing communication among collaborating directives and illustrate these practices with an example 

I invited some of my friends to discuss the nebulous concepts of coupling and cohesion in software design. How do we think about these topics? How do we understand the terms? How do we use that in our work as programmers? How do we teach it to others? How much does any of it even matter?

Our invited guests: Corey Haines, Curtis Cooley, Dale Emery, J. B. Rainsberger, Jim Weirich, Kent Beck, Nat Pryce, Ron Jeffries.