BT

InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect.

View an example

We protect your privacy.

Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

Write for InfoQ

Register Sign in

Unlock the full InfoQ experience

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources.

Log In

or

Don't have an InfoQ account?

Stay updated on topics and peers that matter to youReceive instant alerts on the latest insights and trends.
Quickly access free resources for continuous learningMinibooks, videos with transcripts, and training materials.
Save articles and read at anytimeBookmark articles to read whenever youre ready.

Logo - Back to homepage

News Articles Presentations Podcasts Guides

Topics

Featured in Development

Fearless Programming with Rust

Senyo Simpson discusses how Rust's core values lead to "fearless programming." He shares front-line experience with Rust, including its application in a high-performance proxy. He explores the language's strengths in predictability and correctness, while also acknowledging its complexities and providing guidance on when to choose Rust for long-term projects.

Fearless Programming with Rust

All in development

Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Test Smarter, Not Harder: Achieving Confidence in Complex Distributed Systems

Elias Nogueira shares a strategic approach to modern microservice testing, detailing solutions for three core challenges. He discusses parallel execution for multiple databases using Testcontainers, creating reliable, sharable mock environments with WireMock, and handling asynchronous event delays with Awaitility, offering a blueprint for senior engineers.

Test Smarter, Not Harder: Achieving Confidence in Complex Distributed Systems

All in architecture-design

AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

MCP: the Universal Connector for Building Smarter, Modular AI Agents

In this article, the authors discuss Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard designed to connect AI agents with tools and data they need. They also talk about how MCP empowers agent development, and its adoption in leading open-source frameworks.

MCP: the Universal Connector for Building Smarter, Modular AI Agents

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Slack's AI-Powered, Hybrid Approach for Large-Scale Migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library

Sergii Gorbachov shares how his team at Slack saved thousands of hours by using an innovative hybrid approach combining AST and LLM to tackle a complex migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library. He explains the challenges of this widespread problem, detailing how they built a pipeline that modeled human problem-solving to successfully automate the migration.

Slack's AI-Powered, Hybrid Approach for Large-Scale Migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library

All in culture-methods

Featured in DevOps

How Causal Reasoning Addresses the Limitations of LLMs in Observability

Large language models excel at converting observability telemetry into clear summaries but struggle with accurate root cause analysis in distributed systems. LLMs often hallucinate explanations and confuse symptoms with causes. This article suggests how causal reasoning models with Bayesian inference offer more reliable incident diagnosis.

How Causal Reasoning Addresses the Limitations of LLMs in Observability

Events

Helpful links

Choose your language

InfoQ Dev Summit Munich

Learn how senior devs at Mercedes-Benz, DKB & Zalando are solving critical dev challenges.

Limited early bird tickets until Sep 9.

QCon San Francisco

Your team looks to you for what's next. Get the foresight to lead them through software's biggest shifts.

Early bird ends Sep 9.

QCon AI New York

Trying to run AI at scale? Find the blueprints for enterprise AI from leaders who built them.

Early bird expires Sep 9.

Leadership asking for innovation? Get the evidence to bet on the right tech and lead with confidence.

Register by Sep 9 to save.

InfoQ Homepage Presentations Deconstructing TypeScript’s Type System

Web Development

Deconstructing TypeScript’s Type System

Reading list

View Presentation

Speed:

Download

59:38

Summary

Spencer Schneidenbach discusses some of the advanced type features of TypeScript, including intersection types, type guards, nullable types, type aliases, string literals, and discriminated unions.

Bio

Spencer Schneidenbach is a web developer, Microsoft MVP, speaker, consultant, and blogger in the St. Louis area, focusing on JavaScript, C#, AngularJS, and ASP.NET. He is the owner of Aviron Software, a consultancy specializing in cloud and web-based software solutions.

About the conference

We are developers that love to grow community, and we love the midwest. So it only makes sense that we would work to grow a developer community here.

Recorded at:

Nov 21, 2017

by

Spencer Schneidenbach

This content is in the Web Development topic

Related Topics:

Sponsored Content

BT