Author: Mark Otto

Import entire applications into AWS CloudFormation

February 3, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enables customers to manage, model, and provision infrastructure at scale. You can declare your infrastructure as code in YAML or JSON by using AWS CloudFormation, in a general purpose programming language using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), or visually…

Announcing Generative AI CDK Constructs

February 2, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Announced by Werner Vogels in his 2023 re:Invent Keynote, Generative AI CDK Constructs, an open-source extension of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), provides well-architected multi-service patterns to quickly and efficiently create repeatable infrastructure required for generative AI projects on AWS. Our initial release…

Finch Container Development Tool: Now for Windows

February 1, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

In November 2022, AWS announced a new command line developer tool for container developers, Finch. Almost one year later we reached an important milestone in the maturity of the project with our Finch 1.0 release. Finch provides local developer tools so that container developers can…

A new and improved AWS CDK construct for Amazon DynamoDB tables

February 1, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Recently, we launched a new AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) construct for Amazon DynamoDB tables, known as TableV2. This construct provides a number of new features in addition to what the original construct offered, enabling CDK authors to create global tables, simplifying the configuration of…

A Qwik break from React?

February 1, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Announcing TypeScript 5.4 Beta — TypeScript gains Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy, a new NoInfer<T> utility type is introduced to stop TypeScript from digging in to match against inner types during inference, and lots of smaller bits and pieces covered in this lengthy post. The final release…

How Vercel builds Vercel with Vercel

January 31, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

👍 On the flip side, Jack Herrington took a look to see ▶️ if RSCs and the Next.js app router approach are ‘really that bad’ and concluded that the DX is just fine. React Form Libraries for Seamless Form Creation Right in Your App — Simplify data…

Adonis v6

January 30, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

AdonisJS v6: The Complete Web Framework — If you want a TypeScript-first backend Web framework with amazing docs and packed with features out the box, Adonis is worth a look. v6 takes a huge step forward by using ESM by default, offering significantly more type…

Explore Women Hack Brew 2024 with Flatlogic

January 29, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Attention to all talented women in tech!👩🏻‍💻 We are happy to invite you to join the virtual Hack Brew hackathon happening February 23rd to 25th, 2024 with Flatlogic. In 3 day event, female coders, designers, innovators, and activists come together to build tech solutions that…

Modern shell scripting with JavaScript

January 25, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Better JavaScript Shell Scripting with Bun Shell — Performance-focused server-side runtime Bun continues its rapid evolution with a side quest into the world of shell scripting by making it easier, cross-platform friendly, and less verbose. zx offers similar (but less integrated and focused) functionality to…