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How Deno Deploy Changes the Game for JS Server Hosting

The Dark Dev — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:28:15 +0000

Deno Deploy is a “multi-tenant JavaScript engine running in 25 data centers across the world.” It’s a way to effortlessly deploy JavaScript without any need for config or maintenance. Deno Deploy obviously runs Deno, a “simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript” and an alternative to Node and even made by the same person. Deno is steadily growing in popularity and stability and the developers are very serious in its future.
What Deno Deploy does is makes deploying simple Deno scripts extremely simple with an online code editor and simple GitHub integration so that you can test your code quickly. For Node applications, I used Glitch.com and Heroku to test and deploy my API’s. They’re both free but the free plans have limits, having to warm up half a minute and with limited requests. Also, getting the packages in Node to be compatible was a bit of a pain sometimes.
Deno Deploy is almost too good to be true for Deno users. Although it’s in the beta phase it has astoundingly great limits for a free tool. There is currently no paid plans but they say they are to have one in the future.
Pricing:

Request count: 100k req/day, 1000 req/min
Memory: 512 MB
CPU Time per request: 50 ms
Environment variable size: 8 KB
ES modules per deployment: 1000
Deployment script size: 20 MB
Deployments per hour: 30
Custom domains: 50
Crash Reports: 10 crash reports per deployment, 100 logs per crash report
BroadcastChannel: 64KB/sec send rate per isolate, no limit on receive

I think that one of the reasons for the creation for Deno Deploy is to promote using Deno as a now “deployable” and stable replacement for Node however, Deno has yet to really gain significant popularity among developers and may not be ready to used in production. What do you think?
Deno Deploy docs here
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Top Tech & Science News Weekly (Week 1)

The Dark Dev — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:19:55 +0000

This is the first weekly list of top content collected from hacker news and other sources about tech, science, privacy, and other interesting news.

TECH

Tailwind 3.0 released with big changes.

Blender 3.0 released

Is Web3 anything?

Great review on Bash use and shortcuts.

Intresting. El Salvador president makes Bitcoin the official currency along with US dollar.

Russia blocks Tor and other related restrictions.

What an AWS outage would mean for the world and should AWS be relied on?

Modernize Wikipedia UX browser extension.

EU pushing open source software for security and best interest of the public.

PRIVACY

Chrome’s new Manifest V3 restricts extension capabilities and weakens privacy functionality of extensions.

Apple’s new do not track button. Does Apple really protect your privacy?

Is discord spyware?

SCIENCE

New study claims that crows are self-aware and the article outlines why this is and it has to do with the density and size of neurons in the crows.

BBC Gears discovered in ancient Greek device that calculates the cosmos.

New eye drops can apparently temperately fix blurred vision for some by dilating pupils

Study finds a group of neurons responsible for encoding and interpreting memories. Possible location for causing schizophrenia or psychosis in misinterpreting memories as reality.

Personality altering parasite found in cats may effect up to 80% of humans.

Slow wave sleep found to improve memory recall

OTHER

Why facts don’t change minds

Genius idea to remove YouTube recommendations with ad blocker.

Discussion. What could it be like 100 years from now?

Someone make a no-code site that makes apps.

Comments welcome. What articles do you think should have been mentioned this week or that you found intresting? What do you think about any of the listed articles?