Asana Engineering community update: August 28-September 1

What’s the Engineering team reading right now? See below:

Fast Properties in V8

The V8 team describes how property access works in JavaScript. Hidden classes are another way to optimize JavaScript performance. Ensuring that objects of the same type add properties in the same order is crucial to reuse hidden classes.

Read it

• Fast Properties in V8 from V8 Javascript Engine
• How V8 handles JavaScript properties internally discussion on Hacker News

Rapid release at massive scale

Facebook explains how they manage continuous releases. Our on-call and infrastructure teams are excited to apply some of these lessons to our own deployment process.

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• Rapid release at massive scale from the Facebook engineering blog

Announcing TypeScript 2.5

TypeScript released a new version today which adds usability improvements. Our favorite is the ability to extract common methods/functions in Visual Studio Code.

Read it

• Announcing TypeScript 2.5 from the Microsoft engineering blog
• Discussion about TypeScript 2.5 on HackerNews