Author: Mark Otto

npm by the numbers

January 16, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

npm in Review: A Retrospective in Numbers — From Socket comes a look at the past year from the perspective of the npm registry, focused largely on statistics (2.5 million live packages!), including download numbers, popular packages, as well as some ‘quirky facts’ like the…

Best AI Tools for Sales to Maximize Your Revenue

January 15, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

“In a world where AI is not just a buzzword but a game-changer, failing to leverage AI tools in sales is like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Read on to discover how you can arm your sales arsenal with AI’s cutting-edge technology.” Have you…

Top Ways AI Can Enhance Customer Experience

January 12, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment. Generally speaking, this is a broad type of AI algorithm that can create content using data they have trained from and include chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard, as well as image generators like DALL-E…

Is htmx Just Another JS Framework?

January 11, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? — Despite being four years old, htmx has seen a surge in popularity recently, parly due to fatigue with ‘big frameworks’ and also because its simple HTML-based approach to adding functionality to a page appeals to an increasingly diverse…

Top Business Apps to Achieve Greater Success

January 10, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Meta – Businesses that implement tech in their processes see faster growth and long-term sustainability. With advancements in AI and better processing power of computers, visionary businesses use the best applications to scale new heights. Here are the top ones that leaders trust. Great service…

The joy of full-stack, AI-first Next.js

January 10, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

▶  React Server Components From Scratch — “Alright, let’s build React Server Components totally from scratch.” Right from nothing, through building a simple Node-based server and working out from there. Ben is very engaging and does a great job of explaining things. Ben Holmes 💡 Josh W…

Looking beyond code coverage with Amazon CodeWhisperer

January 9, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Code coverage is a code quality metric leveraging unit tests. Coming up with test cases with every combination of parameters requires developer’s time, which is already scarce. Developers’ focus is (mis)directed at just meeting the coverage threshold. In doing so, quality of code may be…

The latest npm registry shenanigans

January 9, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

The State of Benchmarking in Node.js — While Node has always been fast (thanks largely to its V8 underpinnings), there’s a renewed focus on performance in the face of benchmarks and claims from alternatives like Deno and Bun. Lars looks at the ecosystem of benchmarking…

Best practices for scaling AWS CDK adoption within your organization

January 7, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Enterprises are constantly seeking ways to accelerate their journey to the cloud. Infrastructure as code (IaC) is crucial for automating and managing cloud resources efficiently. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) lets you define your cloud infrastructure as code in your favorite programming language…