Author: Mark Otto

Your DevOps and Developer Productivity guide to 2024 re:Invent

November 22, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

It’s that time of the year again. The annual AWS re:Invent conference is just around the corner. Still need to save your spot? You can register here. This year’s DevOps and Developer Productivity (DOP) track features an impressive lineup, including 11 breakout sessions, 14 chalk…

Proactively validate your AWS CloudFormation templates with AWS Lambda

November 21, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CloudFormation is a service that allows you to define, manage, and provision your AWS cloud infrastructure using code. To enhance this process and ensure your infrastructure meets your organization’s standards, AWS offers CloudFormation Hooks. These Hooks are extension points that allow you to invoke…

Exploring JavaScript symbols

November 21, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🦃 We’re taking next week off for Thanksgiving. We don’t celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a break. We’ll be back on Thursday December 5.__Your editor, Peter Cooper Angular v19 Released — The…

Verify the Safety of the Rust Standard Library

November 20, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Rust is one of the fastest growing languages around the world. The Rust community has grown into millions of developers, with more products and services relying on Rust. The ergonomics and strong compiler guarantees make Rust an ideal choice for developers. With this growth though,…

How a Web App Generator Can Save You Months of Development Time

November 20, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

“Imagine launching a fully functional web app in days instead of months.”  For developers, entrepreneurs, and product managers, time is a precious resource – and building a web app from scratch is a massive investment. If you’re eager to get your app to market fast,…

Expanded resource awareness in Amazon Q Developer

November 20, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Recently, Amazon Q Developer announced expanded support for account resource awareness with Amazon Q in the AWS Management Console along with the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in AWS Chatbot, enabling you to ask questions from Microsoft Teams or Slack. Additionally, Amazon Q will now provide…

Quickly scan your app for problematic renders

November 20, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Introducing @clerk/nextjs V6, with Support for Next.js 15 — With v6, the auth() helper is now asynchronous, <ClerkProvider> defaults to static rendering instead of dynamic, and support for partial pre-rendering has been introduced. Learn more about v6 updates and follow our guide to upgrade. Clerk Uncontrolled…

Using Node to get ChatGPT on the phone

November 19, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

AWS Lambda Turns Ten: Looking Back and Looking Ahead — AWS Lambda, Amazon’s cloud function service, essentially launched the term ‘serverless’ and had a big impact on the use of Node.js in the cloud with Node v0.10 being the first and only runtime supported (till…