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Good morning! New features are coming to React 19, including a "React Forget" compiler and server-side rendering capabilities. Platform engineering teams are expected to become common as a way to unify development and operations workflows through integrated tooling. The Linux Foundation has launched Valkey, an open source alternative to Redis, supported by major cloud providers to prevent vendor lock-in.

— Forrest Knight & Meghanadh Vasireddy

New Features in React 19

The React team has been hard at work, listening to community feedback and addressing long-standing pain points.

New Features: The star of the show is the new "React Forget" Compiler, which will automatically memoize components and optimize rendering. Say goodbye to manual memoization with useMemo or memo.

• Rendering React components on the server side for better SEO and faster initial load times is now possible with Server Components.

• A cleaner way to handle form submissions, the new Actions API streamlines this process by replacing old onSubmit event handlers.

Scripts, styles, and fonts will load in the background using Suspense, preventing render blocking and improving performance.

Developer experience gets a boost with:

• The new use() hook for simpler async data fetching and context handling

• useFormState and useOptimistic hooks for enhanced form handling

Long-awaited out-of-the-box support for integrating Web Component libraries seamlessly into React apps.

Note: While still in early "canary" test releases, the React team recommends holding off using React 19 in production apps for now. Developers should keep an eye out for the stable release.

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Take control of your AWS spend and cut backup bills by 50%

As cloud adoption increases to run modernized applications, costs can quickly rise out of control. How do best-in-class companies manage their storage spend while continuing to grow the business? Clumio, a cloud-native backup solution, depends on cloud storage to run their entire business. They took a FinOps approach to optimizing their costs, and reduced their AWS dev costs by over 50%.

80% of SWE Orgs will Establish Platform Engineering Teams, experts say

“AI-augmented and machine learning-powered software engineering is changing the way software is being created, tested and operated, and the need for responsible AI is growing,” said Dave Micko, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner. “Practices such as platform engineering will begin injecting insights from deployed systems into the systems being developed.”

The problem being solved here is not new. Software systems are filled with operational complexities due to its distributed nature, having Devs complain that Ops slows them down and Ops complain that Devs push bad code.

The new solution is platform engineering, which “actually” fulfills the promises of DevOps. It bridges the gap by utilizing a single, integrated platform that covers all these aspects: planning, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and more. It’s a one-stop shop for Devs and Ops to use in harmony, so that everyone doesn’t have to manage different tools for each step of the process. And based on predictions, by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will establish platform engineering teams.

Forrest’s Opinion: Or, and hear me out, platform engineering is just the new term for DevOps - that platform engineering is just how DevOps is being performed today compared to how DevOps was performed in the past. We’re just improving the tools used and calling it “platform engineering” because the tech field loves complicating things more than they already are.

In all honesty, how I really see it is in a way that doesn't seem to be addressed. As AI dev tools improve, Devs and Ops will naturally shift over to "platform engineers" (if this is what we want to call it) to oversee the entire pipeline and ensure smooth operation from planning and coding to deployment and monitoring because they don’t have to be so hands on with the coding.

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Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community

Redis Inc. recently changed their licensing terms for the popular open source Redis data store. This prompted longtime Redis contributors to start a new open source project under a permissive license.

In response, the Linux Foundation has launched Valkey - an open source alternative to Redis. Valkey will continue developing the Redis codebase under the permissive BSD 3-clause license.

Major companies like AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle are supporting Valkey. Their involvement ensures the project's long-term viability and prevents a single vendor from controlling it, like what happened with Redis' relicensing.

Key former Redis maintainers and contributors are leading Valkey, including:

• Madelyn Olson (AWS)

• Contributors from Google, Oracle, Ericsson, and others

Valkey aims to implement the full Redis roadmap, including:

• Improved clustering

• Multi-threaded performance enhancements

• New commands and data structures

It will remain community-driven under the Linux Foundation's open governance model.

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