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Automating dead code cleanup

Engineering at Meta

Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing dead code. SCARF combines static and dynamic analysis of programs to detect dead code from both a business and programming language perspective. These are combined and form an augmented dependency graph.

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Why Picnic picked Java

Picnic Engineering

When Picnic launched as the first app-only supermarket back in 2015 in The Netherlands, the tech landscape looked markedly different from today. Java 8 was released just the year before, adding the beloved lambdas and streams functionality. So why did we end up picking Java as our backend development stack?

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A Tour Around Buck2, Meta's New Build System

Tweag

Bazel, on the other hand, is a much older codebase , with the first public commit dating back to 2015 and internal development dating back much longer. Most of it is implemented in Java, and while some components can be used independently, e.g., the remote worker , most are generally not developed or published as standalone components.

Systems 138
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Full Stack Web Developer Learning Path in 2024

Knowledge Hut

So, we need to choose one backend framework from Java (Spring Framework), JavaScript (NodeJS), etc, and then also learn databases. But once more and more developers started using it, the ECMA committee decided to add some very nice features and enhance the language and renamed it ES6 in 2015. The only framework to do it is NextJS.

Java 98
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Most Demanding Full Stack Developer Jobs in USA [2024]

Knowledge Hut

A LinkedIn research claims that since 2015, the demand for full-stack developers has grown by 35% annually. Full-stack developers write codes using different computing languages to create programs that define and execute the functions. The codes act as channels that convey data from servers to the web interface for users to read.

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Releasing Connexion to the Community

Zalando Engineering

Connexion allows you to write an OpenAPI specification, then maps the endpoints to your Python functions; this makes it unique, as many tools generate the specification based on your Python code. You can describe your REST API in as much detail as you want; then Connexion guarantees that it will work as you specified. After 6 years and 3.9k

Scala 52
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Get Job-Ready: Learn to Code in 2023

ProjectPro

This year let’s listen to our world leaders and take a pledge to learn “How to Code” The US President, Barrack Obama urges everyone to learn coding - from the school level to working professionals. “Learn to Code” is the best resolution this New Year – which will be easy for you to keep.

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