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Microsoft Teams
As part of Office 365, Teams will be launching in competition with Slack. A notable feature with Teams is that you will have the ability to have threaded comments.
The Challenge of Constructive Criticism and How to Get It
Having our work criticized is hard, but can be helpful if it is constructive. This article explains how to ask for feedback in a way that will more likely produce constructive critiques.
So You’re Thinking of Decomposing Your Monolith into Microservices
If you’ve heard all the hype about microservices, you may want to move your monolith to a microservices architecture. Here is a high-level guide of things to consider.
Redux Actions
Redux’s explicit approach to handling changes in your application’s state is a major boon, but it leads to a large amount of boiler plate code. This library seeks to help reduce that boiler plate.
React Native Elements
A cross platform React Native UI toolkit ideal for rapid prototyping.
Plasma, in Your Pocket
A new, open source smartphone operating system. Unlike most others which are based on Android, this one seems to be closer to Linux.