Weekly Digest · 2023 CW 5 + CW 6

Interesting reads

• Actually already almost a year old... but a good talk nevertheless: Decodable presentation for Netflix
  Part 2 is a very informative and natural demo by Sharon Xie @sharon_rxie
  • ..Decodable is a real-time stream processing platform
  • Decodable has already moved forward massively over the course of the past year, so go and check out the latest docs & talks on their blog
• Another blog post on 'the rapid rise of apache flink' by @rmetzger_
  https://www.datanami.com/2023/01/30/five-drivers-behind-the-rapid-rise-of-apache-flink/
• Brush up your understanding on Kafka Streams: Transactions & Exactly-Once Messaging in this descriptive blog post

Released this week

• The K2 Compiler is going stable in Kotlin 2.0
• Lighthouse 10 with changes to scoring and new audits: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/lighthouse-10-0/

Progress on thriving.dev

• thriving.dev is now enabled for crawlers
  • also with auto-generated sitemap.xml using nuxt-simple-sitemap, built by @harlan_zw
• added Open Graph & Twitter cards support
• changed font-display to swap and added fallback fonts to improve CLS scores
  • fallback fonts for Montserrat & Raleway are generated/taken from this page
  • Note: I've also tried nuxt module fontaine but found it wasn't doing quite as good a job
  • FYI: there's also a tool font-style-matcher which is interesting but I found for different content the accuracy can significantly differ.