【Node Weekly】#320 — JANUARY 9, 2020

How We 30x-ed Our Node Parallelism — An interesting write up of how one team safely increased the parallelism of their Node-based service. You might find things to argue with here, but this is real world stuff.

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Node v13.6.0 (Current) Released — The usual tweaks and minor improvements. perf_hooks is no longer experimental, the REPL gains zsh-style reverse searching, and there are two new assert methods for when using regular expressions (assert.match and assert.doesNotMatch).

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The Easiest Way to Run Redis — Better monitoring, seamless scaling, durable and portable Redis hosting supporting all the latest features.

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Postgres.js: A Fast, Full-Featured Postgres Client for Node — Claims to be the fastest even (at 2-10x faster than the popular pg module) but we’ll let you be the judge of that :-)

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npm Security 2019 in Review — npm Inc’s VP of Security, Adam Baldwin, shares a variety of stats relating to the security of the npm repository over the past year. A stand out is that only 9.27% of package maintainers are using 2FA so far (consider correcting that ASAP if you’re one of the 90% left! )

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Node.js Gets a 'Web Server Frameworks Team' — The Node project has a lot of teams and working groups focused on different areas. Now it has a group for framework authors and users to collaborate on how backend frameworks and Node.js core work together.

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