You can now publish Bicep modules to an Azure Container Registry (ACR), just like Docker images. This solves the “shared module” problem in enterprises. This enables a central platform team to version and distribute approved infrastructure patterns (like secure storage accounts) to app teams.
Read more →Month: October 2021
React 18 Alpha: Automatic Batching
React 18’s best feature might be the one you don’t have to code for: Automatic Batching. Previously, React only batched updates inside event handlers. Now, updates inside Promises, timeouts, and native event handlers are all batched. This is a free performance upgrade.
Read more →Docker Desktop Licensing: What Now?
Docker Desktop is no longer free for large enterprises. This caused panic. Your alternatives are: Rancher Desktop: Uses containerd and k3s. Podman: Daemonless, rootless. WSL 2 Native: Run purely inside Linux.
Read more →C# 10: Constant Interpolated Strings
A small but welcome quality of life improvement in C# 10. You can finally use string interpolation for `const` strings, as long as the inputs are also strings. This is fantastic for attributing Controllers or defining consistent routing constants without resorting to `static readonly`.
Read more →TypeScript 4.4: Control Flow Analysis
TS 4.4 is smarter. It can now analyze aliased conditions.
Read more →Azure Functions 4.0: The Road to .NET 6
Functions 4.0 is now in Preview. It brings full support for .NET 6. The most important change is the unification of the host runtime.
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