Author: Mark Otto

Best Practices for Writing Step Functions Terraform Projects

September 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Terraform by HashiCorp is one of the most popular infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platforms. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines. In this blog,…

Getting AI to build your React components

September 20, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

v0: ‘An AI Tool That’s Effectively Midjourney for React’ — An interesting experiment from Vercel where you can submit prompts like “a pricing page for a SaaS” or “a contact form” and it returns copy-and-paste friendly shadcn/ui + Tailwind CSS code for React apps. It’s…

Does Node need a mascot of its own?

September 19, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Does Node.js Need a Mascot? — Go has its cute gopher, Deno has a dinosaur, Bun has, well.. a bun, but what does Node have? Nothing official, as such, and Matteo Collina ponders whether we should change that. Most of the suggestions seem tongue in…

JavaScript, ML and LLMs

September 14, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Bun 1.0: Is It a Toolkit? Is It a Runtime? It’s Both — You’ve used Node, you’ve seen Deno, now Bun has grown up too. It’s a performance-oriented server-side JS runtime built atop JavaScriptCore and makes the unique claim of being “a drop-in replacement for…

Argo CD Application Controller Scalability Testing on Amazon EKS

September 13, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

As more customers adopt Kubernetes and GitOps for their delivery of containerized applications, we at AWS are witnessing growing interest in understanding and operating GitOps platforms at scale. Argo CD is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) application delivery tool that runs on Kubernetes.…

React Server Components explained

September 13, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Find Your Perfect Course or Learning Path with Frontend Masters — The Exploration Sale is live! Get access to over 200 courses, all with revamped learning paths. There’s a slew of new workshops and courses on the way too, covering TailwindCSS, TypeScript, accessibility, algorithms, Angular,…

You can run GitHub Gists with npx

September 12, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

MikroORM 5.8 Released — When MikroORM is mentioned anywhere, I always see folks saying it’s great and deserves more attention, so I’m doing my bit to help 😁 It’s an ORM for Node based around Data Mapper, Unit of Work (hello implicit transactions and change…