Google Launches “Season of Docs” Program to Improve Open Source Documentation

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Google has launched Season of Docs, a program which aims to improve documentation for open source projects. It will do this by building a mentoring relationship between open source contributors and technical writers, helping to create stronger and more comprehensive documentation for various open source technologies. The motivation for Season of Docs comes from the Open Source Survey, which demonstrated that good documentation is lacking for many open source projects.… Read More »Google Launches “Season of Docs” Program to Improve Open Source Documentation

Google Researchers Say Spectre Will Haunt Us for Years

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According to a paper by several Google researchers, speculative vulnerabilities currently defeat all programming-language-level means of enforcing information confidentiality. This would not be just an incidental property of how we build our systems, but rather the result of wrong mental models that led us to trade security for performance without knowing it. Our paper shows these leaks are not only design flaws, but are in fact foundational, at the very… Read More »Google Researchers Say Spectre Will Haunt Us for Years

Google Open-Sources GPipe Library for Faster Training of Large Deep-Learning Models

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Google AI is open-sourcing GPipe, a TensorFlow library for accelerating the training of large deep-learning models. Deep-neural-networks (DNN) are the tool of choice for solving many AI tasks, such as natural-language processing and visual object detection. New methods for the latter are often benchmarked against winners of the ImageNet challenge. Each year’s winning entry has performed better than the last; however, there is a corresponding increase in model complexity. The… Read More »Google Open-Sources GPipe Library for Faster Training of Large Deep-Learning Models

ART Cloud Profiling to Improve Android App Performance

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First introduced in Android Pie, ART optimizing profiles are a feature that leverages data sent to Play Cloud to optimize an app startup time on install or update. Data disclosed by Google show apps start 15% faster on average, with special cases reaching a 30% improvement. Android has supported runtime optimization features since Android Nougat using Profile Guided Optimization (PGO). This technology was able to carry through an in-app profiling of memory… Read More »ART Cloud Profiling to Improve Android App Performance

Google Releases Anthos, a Hybrid Cloud Platform to Generally Availability

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Recently, Google announced on their blog the general availability of Anthos, a service for hybrid cloud and workload management that runs on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Furthermore, besides running on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), it also allows customers to manage workloads running on third-party clouds like AWS and Azure. Anthos is based on the Cloud Services Platform which Google rolled out last year for building and managing services… Read More »Google Releases Anthos, a Hybrid Cloud Platform to Generally Availability

Google’s Cloud-Native NoSQL Database Cloud Firestore Is Now Generally Available

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Google announced that their NoSQL database in the cloud, Cloud Firestore, is now generally available. With the release, Google is also introducing several new features, such as a StackDriver integration, bringing the service to more regions, and offering a lower pricing tier. Cloud Firestore has been in beta since the beginning of October 2017. During the beta, Google updated the service in August of last year by adding management and administration tools… Read More »Google’s Cloud-Native NoSQL Database Cloud Firestore Is Now Generally Available

Angular Team Releases Angular 6

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On May 3, 2018, the Angular team released version 6 of Angular, a release that focused on improving the Angular toolchain. Significant updates make it easier to update application source code and dependencies, add new application capabilities, and “tree shake” code for better performance. The ng update CLI command analyzes package.json and recommends updates to an Angular application. Third parties can also provide update scripts using schematics to automatically update… Read More »Angular Team Releases Angular 6

Ionic Version 4: from Angular to React, Vue, and Web Components

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The Ionic 4 release represents a substantial change, moving from a mobile framework for Angular users to a framework-agnostic approach that adds support for React, Vue.js, and web components. As explained by Ionic CEO Max Lynch, this change is driven by frontend churn: At the end of 2017, we started asking ourselves if our original dream was worth revisiting. It was clear that frontend developers would never settle on any… Read More »Ionic Version 4: from Angular to React, Vue, and Web Components

Ts.ED Provides TypeScript Framework Leveraging Express and Decorators

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Ts.ED provides a server-side TypeScript framework on top of Node.js and Express. The framework provides classes and decorators to simplify common server-side patterns, and offers integration with many other projects including TypeORM, Swagger, GraphQL, AJV, Passport.js, and Socket.io, among others. Ts.ED provides controllers using the @Controller decorator, each of which maps to Express’ routing system. Similarly, decorators get provided for common patterns including requests, sessions, posts, middleware, server settings, and… Read More »Ts.ED Provides TypeScript Framework Leveraging Express and Decorators

Google Experiments with Key-Value Storage, Built-In Modules in Chrome 74

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Google recently announced its intent to ship two new WICG proposals in a future version of Chrome. KV Storage (Key-Value storage) attempts to bring the convenience of LocalStorage but with better performance. The intent is to deliver this as the first example of a built-in module, leveraging the import maps proposal. The JavaScript ecosystem has had a somewhat fractured approach to storing and caching data locally. As explained by Philip… Read More »Google Experiments with Key-Value Storage, Built-In Modules in Chrome 74