Hey Folks! I’ve just landed home 🛬 from an amazing trip to Ireland for the OpenJS Collaborator Summit and NodeConf.eu. While traveling, I skipped editing an edition last week - this edition has quite a few more releases than I would normally do! As usual, feel free to ping me for questions.
Patformatic co-founders Matteo Collina & Luca Maraschi join Amal & Chris to discuss their just-announced (and we mean just announced) open source database tool: Platformatic DB! It’s a daemon that can turn any PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or SQLite database into a REST and GraphQL endpoint. What makes it special is that it allows massive customization thanks to the flexibility of Fastify plugins.
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If you are interested in watching the morning talks of NodeConf.eu, you can watch the full-day recording of Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. The NodeConf.eu team is already processing the videos, and individual recordings will be shared soon.
The Platformatic delegation at NodeConf.eu (Luca Maraschi, Marco Piraccini, Leonardo Rossi, and myself) delivered an amazing workshop to build a movie quotes application, check it out at https://platformatic.dev/db-workshop/.
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This HIGH impact vulnerability impacts both the v4.x line. We have also issued a security release: v4.8.1. Read up for more details and a workaround.
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This HIGH impact vulnerability impacts both the v4.x line. We have also issued a security release: v4.8.1. Read up for more details and a workaround.
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The biggest news of the last few weeks is the release of workerd, the OSS version of Cloudflare Workers! workerd joins Deno, Bun, and of course Node.js in the list of server-side JavaScript runtimes.
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27/09/2022 September 27, 2022 2:00PM • workerd is Open Source under the Apache License version 2.0. workerd shares most of its code with the runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers, but with some changes designed to make it more portable to other environments. The name “workerd” (pronounced “worker dee”) comes from the Unix tradition of naming servers with a “-d” suffix standing for “daemon”. The name is not capitalized because it is a program name, which are traditionally lower-case in Unix-like environments.
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27/09/2022 September 27, 2022 2:00PM • workerd is Open Source under the Apache License version 2.0. workerd shares most of its code with the runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers, but with some changes designed to make it more portable to other environments. The name “workerd” (pronounced “worker dee”) comes from the Unix tradition of naming servers with a “-d” suffix standing for “daemon”. The name is not capitalized because it is a program name, which are traditionally lower-case in Unix-like environments.
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At NodeConf.eu, I delivered a talk on “why I would never use a ORM”: if you are looking for more data and evidence, read the following article:
ORM is a powerful tool, but it adds a layer of complexity that can cause some hiccups. Here’s why you may want to avoid ORM in your next project.
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Read the story of Lyra, a fast, in-memory, full-text search engine that you can deploy on the edge. Check it out:
This interview is part of our OSS Spotlight series where we showcase
founders of fast-growing open-source projects that are solving really
unique problems and experiencing strong community adoption.
Sudip Chakrabarti spoke to Michele Riva, creator of Lyra, a fast,
in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine.
Michele shared with us his motivation behind creating Lyra and how he is
keeping up with all the fast growth of the project.
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I have never been a fan of prettier - since the beginning multiple people kept try to reformat the source code of my Open Source projects. I guess I’m not the only one. Read this article from Anthony on the topic:
I have started writing this post multiple times but never ended up posting it. I wasn’t able to figure out a proper way to express my position about Prettier. But this time, I think I should try harder to explain that for future reference.
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