Author: Mark Otto

Best SAP Alternatives 2025: Choose the Right ERP

February 19, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Forbes says, “The biggest reason ERP implementations fail is because companies don’t have a clear understanding of their business needs and how the software can meet them.”  For a long time, SAP has been a market leader for enterprise management. However, as technology evolves, many…

AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review

February 18, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code-base templates. Whether you prefer writing templates directly in JSON or YAML, or using programming languages like Python, Java, and TypeScript with the AWS Cloud Development…

Open Source CRM For Nonprofits: Best Picks For 2025

February 18, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Are you working in a nonprofit and don’t know which CRM to use? Read on as we dive into the best open source CRMs for nonprofits in 2025. Do nonprofits need to use CRMs too? What makes a CRM suitable for nonprofit organizations? Which CRMs…

Deploying and Managing Application Configurations using AWS AppConfig

February 17, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

The management of configurations across multiple environments and tenants poses a significant challenge in modern software development. Organizations must balance maintaining distinct settings for various environments while accommodating the unique needs of different tenants in multi-tenant architectures. This complexity is compounded by requirements for consistency,…

Top 10 Best AI Software Development Agents in 2025

February 14, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

AI is no longer just assisting developers – it’s building, debugging, and deploying software. Discover the top AI software development agents of 2025 and how they compare. When searching for AI-driven development tools, you probably ask: Which AI software development agents can build and maintain…

It’s time to go ESM-only

February 14, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Style Observer: A Library to Observe CSS Property Changes — Lea Verou is a developer who’s easy to admire because whenever she sets out to solve a problem, the results are always fully formed with no cut corners. So it goes with this ‘exhaustively tested’ JS…

Why Custom ERP is the Best Fit for Scaling Businesses

February 12, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Are your business processes scattered across multiple software platforms? Do you struggle with data silos and inefficiencies?  If so, it’s time to consider a custom ERP system.   Imagine buying a suit that does not fit well. Too tight in some places, too loose in others…What’s…

How to start a React project in 2025

February 12, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

🏖️ We’re taking next week off, so the next issue will be on Wednesday, February 26. Feel free to hit reply and send in any submissions!__Peter Cooper, your editor. The State of React 2024 Survey Results — There’s too much to go into depth here,…

Why it’s time to go ‘ESM only’

February 11, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

🏖️ We’re taking next week off, so the next issue will be on Tuesday, February 25. Feel free to hit reply and send in any submissions!__Peter Cooper, your editor. How to Publish ESM-Based npm Packages with TypeScript — Now that you can use the ES…

Learning AWS best practices from Amazon Q in the Console

February 8, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Operators, administrators, developers, and many other personas leveraging AWS come across multiple use cases and common issues such as lack of permissions, bugs in code in AWS Lambda, and more when leveraging the AWS console. To help alleviate this burden when using the console, AWS…