Running a Node app with Google Cloud Spanner

September 2, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Deploying a Cloud Spanner-Based Node AppCloud Spanner is an ‘unlimited scale’ managed relational database service Google offers (and which was spun out of an internal database system Google used for numerous services). This post covers the practicalities of building a simple app with a Spanner database and spinning it up on Google Cloud.

Stefan Serban (Google)

Electron 14.0.0 Released — The latest major version of the popular cross-platform desktop app framework is here. It’s moving to an 8 week stable release schedule, so Electron 15 is due in just three weeks.. but for now you get Chromium 93, Node.js 14.17, and V8 9.3 support, experimental cookie encryption support, and a few removals (such as the remote module).

GitHub

Don’t Let the Bad Bugs Bite! — Manage errors with your team. Assign incidents, mark severity, and send incidents to GitHub. AppSignal also provides ridiculously deep debugging data for your Node.js errors. Hunting bugs was never easier.

AppSignal

Best Practices for Logging in Node — Nine tips walking through the essentials if you’re getting serious about logging – things like avoiding logging sensitive information, writing descriptive messages, and using logging levels correctly.

Ayo Isaiah

August 31 2021 Security Releases for Node 12.x and 14.x — If you’re on Node 16.x, scroll on, but the Node 12.x and 14.x branches have received v12.22.6 and v14.17.6 respectively to resolve some vulnerabilities (all around file overwriting, symbolic link abuse, and problematic path sanitization) in node-tar, arborist, and the npm cli modules.

Node.js Team

Building Reactive Systems with Node.js — A look at why reactive systems are especially easy to implement with Node, followed by a walk through a reactive system built with Node and Apache Kafka.

Alexandros Alykiotis

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