markjgsmith

Today’s links:

• Disney is launching a new Star-branded streaming service internationallywww.theverge.com #

• In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved over timewww.nngroup.com #

• Apple Maps’ Look Around feature gets first international expansion - It’s Apple’s version of Google Street Viewwww.theverge.com #

• Future MacBook Pro trackpads may be larger, adjustable, and backlit - Based on the diagrams in the patent it looks like a giant trackpad that spans the entire width of the device, and if I’m understanding the description correctly, the active region of the trackpad could change size based on the app being used, and perhaps even have different regions somehow drawn / backlit onto the trackpad - Sounds like it could be quite coolappleinsider.com #

• AWS Serverless LAMP stack - There are a lot of PHP websites out there, so this new serverless offering in this space is noteworthyaws.amazon.com #

• A bit of self promotion - if you are looking for a developer, or know someone else that is, consider reaching out to me with freelance / contract projects - Now is a great time to start a project :)blog.markjgsmith.com #

• A deep dive into queues in Node.js - Great article that covers the runtime’s core queues, it’s also worth noting that NodeJS has some great libraries for implementing application level queues, I recently implemented a very robust and fault tolerant backend queuing system for handling inbound Stripe webhooksblog.logrocket.com #

• New Repo: Implements a Books API for a Library, intended to be run on AWS Lambda/DynamoDB using serverless - From a recent demo project I completed, get in touch with me if you are looking to build serverless APIsgithub.com #