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Hello Developer: January 2025
In the first edition of the new year: Bring SwiftUI to your app in Cupertino, get ready for the Swift Student Challenge, meet the team behind Oko, and more. Read the full article
Walk this way: How Oko leverages AI to make street crossings more accessible
Oko is a testament to the power of simplicity. The 2024 Apple Design Award winner for Inclusivity and 2024 App Store Award winner for Cultural Impact leverages Artificial Intelligence to help blind or low-vision people navigate pedestrian walkways by alerting them to the state of signals — “Walk,” “Don’t Walk,” and the like — through haptic, audio, and visual feedback. The app instantly affords more confidence to its users. Its bare-bones UI masks a powerful blend of visual and AI tools under th
Speed Insights usage can now be viewed by Project
You can now view your Speed Insights traffic broken down by project in the tab.Usage Learn more about .Speed Insights Read more
Headless Salesforce: An incremental migration from monolith to composable
For ecommerce teams running Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the platform's monolithic design can feel like a double-edged sword. While its out-of-the-box capabilities promise rapid deployments, they often hinder frontend flexibility and innovation. But what if you could unlock a new level of performance—without risking your core business? That’s exactly what a global sportswear brand achieved. Their headless Salesforce migration strategy halved their load times, cut cart abandonment by 28%, and incre
Runtime logs can now be filtered by request type and Vercel resource
The "Contain Types" filter in has been replaced by two new filters for better clarity:runtime logs These updates provide more granular insights into how your requests are processed. Both filters are available on all plans starting today. Learn more about .how Vercel processes requests Read more : Filters which infrastructure resource within the Vercel Edge Network was used to serve the request. Examples include Serverless Functions, Edge Cache, and Edge MiddlewareResource : Filters which fram
D1 - 40-60% Faster D1 Worker API Requests
Users making D1 requests via the Workers API can see up to a 60% end-to-end latency improvement due to the removal of redundant network round trips needed for each request to a D1 database. p50, p90, and p95 request latency aggregated across entire D1 service. These latencies are a reference point and should not be viewed as your exact workload improvement. This performance improvement benefits all D1 Worker API traffic, especially cross-region requests where network latency is an outsized late
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