Author: Mark Otto

Flowpipe: A Cloud Scripting Engine for DevOps Workflows

April 30, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Flowpipe is an open source tool built for DevOps teams. You can express pipelines, steps, and triggers in HCL — the familiar DevOps language – to orchestrate tasks that query AWS (and other services you regularly use). Compose pipelines using mods, and mix in SQL,…

De-risk releases with AWS CodePipeline rollbacks

April 30, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

It’s an established practice for development teams to build deployment pipelines, with services such as AWS CodePipeline, to increase the quality of application and infrastructure releases through reliable, repeatable and consistent automation. Automating the deployment process helps build quality into our products by introducing continuous…

Node.js 22 has entered the building

April 30, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js 22.0 (Current) Released — The latest major version of Node is here. Note that it’s a ‘Current’ release for now, so gets all the newest features first, but is due to become Node’s main active LTS release this October. As an even numbered release,…

ALL Flatlogic Templates With Your Flatlogic Generator Subscription

April 29, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Now you can access ALL Flatlogic templates with your Flatlogic Generator subscription, empowering users with greater flexibility and access to our extensive range of project templates. Tailored to enhance user experience, now you can download templates depending on the subscription. Subscription Options and Benefits: Individual…

Build APIs using OpenAPI, the AWS CDK and AWS Solutions Constructs

April 27, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction APIs are the key to implementing microservices that are the building blocks of modern distributed applications. Launching a new API involves defining the behavior, implementing the business logic, and configuring the infrastructure to enforce the behavior and expose the business logic. Using OpenAPI, the…

JSR isn’t another tool, it’s a fundamental shift

April 25, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

JSR is Not Another Package Manager — When Ryan created Node, JavaScript had no packages or standard module system. npm and CommonJS took off, and tools like Yarn or pnpm extended npm in certain areas, but in today’s ES modules era, it’s time for a…

Three hours of modern React

April 24, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

▶  From 0 to Production – A Modern React Tutorial — I’d be surprised if you’re not familiar with Theo, but if not, let’s just say he’s a popular developer YouTuber 😉 He may become even more popular thank to this video which, over three hours,…

Best Software For Small Businesses

April 23, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Diving into small business software is akin to unlocking a treasure chest of productivity and efficiency. This article is your key, turn it all the way. Entrepreneurs often find themselves pondering critical questions on their journey toward operational excellence. How can I maximize efficiency without…

node –run send_newsletter

April 23, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

▶  A Node.js Streams Masterclass — What a treat! Join the creator of Fastify, as well as Node.js TSC member, on an hour long odyssey into the world of streams, a topic in which he specializes. He starts off quite poetically .. a stream is like…

Quickly go from Idea to PR with CodeCatalyst using Amazon Q

April 20, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon Q feature development enables teams using Amazon CodeCatalyst to scale with AI to assist developers in completing everyday software development tasks. Developers can now go from an idea in an issue to a fully tested, merge-ready, running application code in a Pull Request (PR)…