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How we use Airflow with Composer

How we use Airflow with Composer

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alberto crespi

At lastminute.com, we use Apache Airflow, managed through Google Cloud Composer, to orchestrate complex workflows. This article explores why we chose Composer as our Airflow distribution, how we use it to schedule a wide range of tasks, and how we organize files and resources to ensure scalability and maintainability. Additionally, we delve into our CI/CD practices, highlighting how we test workflows and manage costs, offering insights for teams seeking efficient and reliable data orchestration at scale in big tech company. [...]

React Universe 2024

React Universe 2024

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fabrizio duroni
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sam campisi

Let's dive into the talks from React Universe 2024 that stood out to us the most and share the key insights we gained. From innovative debugging tools to cross-platform development strategies, we’ll walk you through what we found valuable and how it’s shaping our approach to React and React Native development. [...]

Tech Radar As a Collaboration Tool

Tech Radar As a Collaboration Tool

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rabbani kajamohideen

A tech radar is a visual and strategic tool used by organizations to assess and communicate the status and future direction of various technologies, frameworks, tools, and platforms. [...]

Ease your Android widgets development with help of Jetpack

Ease your Android widgets development with help of Jetpack

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alejandro weichandt

Quick introduction of related Jetpack libraries which will help on your Android widget's development [...]

SwiftUI and the Text concatenations super powers

SwiftUI and the Text concatenations super powers

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fabrizio duroni
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marco de lucchi

Do you need a way to compose beautiful text with images and custom font like you are used with Attributed String. The Text component has everything we need to create some sort of 'attributed text' directly in SwiftUI. Let's go!!! [...]

A Monorepo Experiment: reuniting a JVM-based codebase

A Monorepo Experiment: reuniting a JVM-based codebase

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luigi noto

Continuing the Monorepo exploration series, we’ll see in action a real-life example of a monorepo for JVM-based languages, implemented with Maven, that runs in continuous integration. The experiment of reuniting a codebase of ~700K lines of code from many projects and shared libraries, into a single repository. [...]

Exploring the Monorepo

Exploring the Monorepo

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luigi noto

Monorepo has become quite popular in Javascript world, and yet not fully explored for JVM-based development. The lack of tools and practical examples slow down its adoption in everyday software projects. In this series of articles, we’ll try to uncover the full potential of a monorepo with Java and Maven. [...]