Astro 3.5, Vercel Cron Jobs… This week in web dev (November 17th 2023)

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Vercel Cron Jobs

Vercel recently announced that cron jobs will be generally available for all users. What are cron jobs?

Astro 3.5

Astro 3.5 was recently released. This minor update is described as “Our biggest minor release since... ever!”

The main highlight of this update is their experimental built-in internationalization (i18n) routing. Allowing Astro to handle routing, linking, and user language detection on any multilingual website.

Next.js Learn Course

I am a bit late to this news, sorry😢.

Next.js released an early version of their “Next.js Learn Course” course about two weeks ago. The course is totally free and will take you from a Next.js newbie to an expert, by walking you through all the important topics contained in Next.js, while building real projects.

The course has received great feedback!

OpenAI Data Partners

Do you have a large amount of data, that you would like to add to your own private OpenAI GPT model? Or maybe you want to submit your large dataset to the publicly available models so that anyone can use it?

OpenAI just announced their Data Partnership program which allows you to do both of these things.

Netlify Blobs

Netlify recently announced Netlify Blobs, a new built-in data store for the Netlify platform. Blobs provides a simple key-value store that can be accessed directly from your site's functions and builds.

With Blobs, you can build complex applications without needing to configure and manage external databases.