To Polyfill Or Not To Polyfill.io

• polyfill-service

  3 7,506 8.8

  Automatic polyfill service.

The sale took place on February 24, 2023, so it has been a minute. In the post on LinkedIn, there was a link provided to a GitHub issue, and from there I also found the tweet (X?) from Andrew Betts strongly encouraging folks to stop using the service. At first, it sounded like the main concern here was that a Chinese company was behind the purchase. I understand that in the current world political climate, there is a "trend" to distrust anything Chinese. This however also impacts other communities such as Nigerian communities and others in Africa, India, and many developing countries. Claudio Wunder on the OpenJS Foundation Slack was the first to raise this concern which I then echoed.

• polyfill-service

  1 10 8.9

  Automatic polyfill service. (by fastly)

  

Since the debacle started and exploded in the JavaScript ecosystem Fastly (Fastly's fork of the project) and Cloudflare have stood up alternatives that I would highly recommend. This shows that the open source and web ecosystem "supply chain" still has a lot of problems, edge cases, and gaping holes that need to be addressed.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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