a Futurum companyTag
34 articles
Blogs
Microsoft has released the beta of TypeScript 6.0, highlighting what the company describes as a transitional moment for the widely used programming language. The release will be the final version built on the JavaScript codebase,…
Showing 1–24 of 34
Blogs
Arcjet this week made available a software development kit (SDK) that makes it simpler for JavaScript developers to embed capabilities such as bot detection, rate limiting, email v…
Blogs
Threat actors behind the virulent Shai-Hulud worm that wreaked havoc in open npm repositories toward the end of 2025 apparently are trying out a new strain that comes with slight m…
Blogs
Anthropic says it has acquired Bun, a high-performance JavaScript toolkit, to turbocharge its artificial intelligence (AI) coding capabilities — further underscoring a significant…
Blogs
A major expansion of the self-propagating Shai-Hulud cyberattack aimed at popular node package managers (npms) used by JavaScript application developers is creating a major headach…
Blogs
A Git functionality shortcoming means Git calculates changes between different versions of the same file, which ultimately creates repository bloat through the excess storage requi…
Blogs
Another maintainer of an open-source software project has decided to no longer actively update IP address parsing utilities used widely by JavaScript developers.
Cloud Management
A Chinese company in February bought the domain and GitHub account for Polyfill, a popular open-source library used by more than 100,000 websites to deliver JavaScript code.
Blogs
AI-generated change is not significantly different than the last couple decades where change has become IT’s constant companion.
Blogs
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI.
Blogs
Node.js is an open source development platform for running JavaScript code on the server side. Node is useful for developing applications that require a persistent browser-server c…
API
In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
AppSmith has added support for Git repositories to an open source framework for building custom applications using a low-code platform based on the JavaScript programming language.…
API
Passwordless solutions have been a trend for a while now, improving user experience (UX) while reducing exposure to common attack vectors. Now, Stytch’s new JavaScript SDK aims to…
Blogs
A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were delib…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Vercel today announced it has acquired Turborepo, a provider of a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript applications that provides developers with access to an easy-to-use mon…
Blogs
While JavaScript is frequently the language of choice for all sizes of frontend and backend applications, it’s not the only option; nor is it necessarily the most efficient or cost…
Blogs
WhiteSource today published a report that found most of the vulnerabilities that affect node package managers (NPMs), widely employed to deploy JavaScript applications, are address…
Blogs
In this week’s The Long View: Working from home is de rigueur, JEDI redux, and more about Nvidia/Arm.
Blogs
Netlify this week announced it has acquired OneGraph, a provider of a platform that simplifies the integration and management of application programming interfaces (APIs) based on…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Netlify announced today it has acquired FeaturePeek as part of an effort to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create a portal through which application stakeholders can both insp…
Blogs
Web development has changed a lot since DevOps first hit the scene. The languages used have shifted, where languages are used has shifted, the likely back-end hosting environment h…
Blogs
Accelerating the pace of development has become one of the biggest goals in DevOps. After all, having teams speed the creation and modification of applications is supposed to be on…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Sentry today announced it has updated its JavaScript SDK tool for monitoring applications to provide a more comprehensive view of application health. Previously, Sentry’s JavaScrip…
