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Issue #1 Weekly update — Aug 29, 2025
👋 Hello, Harman here
This week we’re diving into Devs releases, AI startups, and developer tools you need to know. Whether you’re scaling a SaaS, hacking on side projects, or sharpening your full-stack skills for becoming software engineer— here’s what’s trending.
— Harman, Editor at Fullstack Insider
🚀 Big Stories
Supabase Auth: Build vs. Buy — Building auth from scratch is expensive, time-consuming, and carries significant security risks and maintenance burdens. Supabase Auth offers a Postgres-native, open-source, and secure solution that drastically reduces development time and costs (up to 90-95% time reduction) compared to in-house development. Building your own is only advisable for highly specialized or legacy compliance needs
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Reflections on the React community — the importance of shipping products and learning in public, advocating for continuous output and shared knowledge as crucial for progress. This perspective highlights that success isn't just about technical skills, but also about embracing an iterative process of creation, feedback, and open communication within the developer community.
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IN BRIEF:
Threads → Threads tests a way to share long-form text on the platform.
Framer → No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation.
TransUnion → TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information.
Lovable → Investors are loving Lovable.
DEVELOPER RELEASES:
Next.js 15.5 — significant advancements in the framework, primarily focusing on improved performance and developer experience.
Svelte — Introducing integrated observability in SvelteKit.
React Native 0.81 — Android 16 support, faster iOS builds, and more.
Node.js — Node.js v22.19.0 (LTS).
Google Developers Blog — How to prompt Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Generation for the best results.
Netflix TechBlog — From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix
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📖 Articles & Deep Dives
Engineering at Meta → How Facebook successfully implemented incremental compilation for Kotlin projects when using their build system, Buck2. This advancement is significant because it dramatically reduces compilation times by only recompiling the parts of the code that have changed, rather than the entire project.
AWS Architecture → a cost-effective strategy for multi-tenant encryption within the AWS ecosystem, specifically leveraging AWS Key Management Service (KMS). It addresses the challenge of securely managing cryptographic keys for various tenants without incurring excessive costs.
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🧰 Code & Tools
Streamdown by Vercel→ Drop-in replacement for react-markdown.
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That’s a wrap! Catch you in next edition. 👋
—Harman