Author: Mark Otto

Accelerate your Terraform development with Amazon Q Developer

July 31, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

This post demonstrates how Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI-powered assistant for software development, helps create Terraform templates. Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that provisions and manages infrastructure on AWS safely and predictably. When used in an integrated development environment (IDE), Amazon…

Exploring the Future of AI Web App Generators

July 31, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Ever wondered how AI will transform app development in the next few years? Stay with me as we dive into the future trends and unveil the game-changing tools that will shape our industry. As a developer, you might be asking: How will AI app generators…

The React Conf 2024 talks

July 31, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

🏖️ A quick note to say that we’re taking the next two weeks off for a summer break. We’ll be back with our next issue on Wednesday, August 21.__Peter Cooper, your editor The React Conf 2024 Talks — It was possible to catch up with…

Node can run TypeScript (sort of)

July 30, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js Adds Experimental Support for TypeScript — In this pull request, Node merged an experimental ability to transpile TypeScript into JavaScript, ultimately letting Node directly ‘run TypeScript’. However, no type checking is performed and, as Matt Pocock explains, experimental and TypeScript-only features are a no-no.…

Testing your applications with Amazon Q Developer

July 29, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Testing code is a fundamental step in the field of software development. It ensures that applications are reliable, meet quality standards, and work as intended. Automated software tests help to detect issues and defects early, reducing impact to end-user experience and business. In addition, tests…

Amazon’s Exabyte-Scale Migration from Apache Spark to Ray on Amazon EC2

July 25, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Large-scale, distributed compute framework migrations are not for the faint of heart. There are backwards-compatibility constraints to maintain, performance expectations to meet, scalability limits to overcome, and the omnipresent risk of introducing breaking changes to production. This all becomes especially troubling if you happen to…

What’s new for us in ECMAScript 2024

July 25, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Astro 4.12: Say Hello to Server Islands — The flexible Astro framework for building modern content-based sites continues to go from strength to strength. v4.12 includes a new concept of server islands, a way to integrate static HTML and server-side generated components together. Erika and Phillips…