We’re going on a memory leak hunt
January 19, 2023 |
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Fixing a Memory Leak in a Production Node App — Kent encountered a variety of weird memory and CPU usage spikes in his Node-powered app and decided to figure out what was going on. This post walks through his complete journey, with plenty of side problems encountered along the way, before discovering the root cause was where he least expected it. Kent C Dodds |
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How To Handle Asynchronous Tasks with BullMQ — BullMQ is a Redis-based job queue system you can use to offload asynchronous tasks from your app to run in the background. This is a very thorough, practical walkthrough in typical DigitalOcean style. Stanley Ulili |
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Bun v0.5 Released — Bun is another JavaScript runtime taking the world by storm and unlike Deno, some level of Node compatibility has been considered important from the start. v0.5 adds support for Ashcon Partovi |
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From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI — E-commerce platform Shopify is well known as a Ruby shop but even they found a compelling reason to switch to Node for their CLI tool. There are numerous reasons explained here, though easier cross-platform packaging was clearly a big motivation. Pedro Piñera (Shopify) |
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🛠 Code & Tools |
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Glob 8.1: Match Files Using Shell-Style Patterns — “Match files using the patterns the shell uses, like stars and stuff.” I still think this is the cutest logo of any Node project out there (if you disagree, hit reply and show us a cuter one). Isaac Z. Schlueter |
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