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March 9, 2023
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Mark Otto
Feathers 5: The API and Real-Time App Framework — Feathers isn’t as well known as Nest or Fastify, say, but it’s a powerful and mature option if you want to spin up a Node CRUD app tied to a database and now it’s “TypeScript all…
March 8, 2023
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Mark Otto
Why You Should Use a React ‘Framework’ — Whether it’s Next.js, Gatsby, Remix, or something else, using a bigger framework that itself uses React is de rigueur in 2023. Lee examines why, complete with a nice iceberg metaphor, and does a good job of boiling…
March 7, 2023
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Mark Otto
We would like to acknowledge the help and support Vikram Sethi, Isaac Mosquera, and Carlos Santana provided to make this blog post better. Thank you! In our previous blog posts [1,2,3], we have discussed a growing trend towards our customers adopting GitOps and Kubernetes native…
March 3, 2023
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Mark Otto
Sandworm Audit: A New JS Auditing Tool — A command-line tool to scan a project and dependencies for vulnerabilities, license issues, and related problems. You get JSON reports, visualizations of dependency trees, and a CSV of all dependencies and license information. Sandworm Experiments with the JavaScript Garbage…
March 2, 2023
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Mark Otto
Today, we are pleased to announce a new Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS capability: Proactive Insights. DevOps Guru for RDS is a fully-managed service powered by machine learning (ML), that uses the data collected by RDS Performance Insights to detect and alert customers of anomalous…
March 2, 2023
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Mark Otto
zx 7.2: A Tool for Writing Better Shell Scripts — Always a popular tool when we link it! zx is an alternative way to run Node that makes it more useful for shell scripting by bringing along a variety of niceties like process management, argument…
March 1, 2023
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Mark Otto
Migrating from Enzyme to React Testing Library — The folks at Sentry spent 16 months converting their component tests (involving 803 test suites in all) from Enzyme to RTL and tell the whole story of why, plus the unforeseen challenges they encountered, here. Priscila Oliveria…
February 28, 2023
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Mark Otto
FFmpeg is an open source tool commonly used by media technology companies to encode and transcode video and audio formats. FFmpeg users can leverage a cost efficient Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance for their video on demand (VOD) encoding workloads now that AWS offers VT1…
February 25, 2023
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Mark Otto
To avoid high costs of downtime, mission critical applications in the cloud need to achieve resilience against degradation of cloud provider APIs and services. In 2021, AWS launched AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), a fully managed service to perform fault injection experiments on workloads in AWS…
February 24, 2023
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Mark Otto
So, you’re wondering if frontend development is easier than backend development. Truth be told, the question is rather challenging. Frontend and backend development are two somewhat complicated aspects of web development in 2023. Fortunately for you, we’ll determine which type of development is more challenging…