How AI is used in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

September 11, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

AI-generated code might save you time, but it’s only scratching the surface of the software development process. Stick around, because understanding the bigger picture separates good developers from great ones. When searching for ways to streamline software creation, you probably ask yourself: How much can…

A bumper React 19 feature roundup

September 11, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

What’s New in React 19 — A thorough roundup of what’s coming in React 19, which has been in release candidate status for several months now, covering both headline features like Server Components and Actions, as well as many smaller enhancements like easier preloading of…

Express.js 5.0

September 10, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Express.js 5.0 Released; Sort Of — After a long period of seeming to merely be on life support, work on Express picked up significantly earlier this year with a big plan to push ‘Express forward.’ The first fruit of this process is now beginning to…

Amazon Q Developer Code Challenge

September 5, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant that can help you understand, build, extend, and operate AWS applications. You can ask questions about AWS architecture, your AWS resources, best practices, documentation, support, and more. With Amazon Q Developer in your…

Reverse engineering minified JS with ChatGPT

September 5, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

An SSR Performance Showdown — Fastify’s Matteo Collina set out to find the current state of server-side rendering performance across today’s most popular libraries. The first attempt faced negative feedback due to implementation issues, but the showdown has been improved and re-run. Matteo Collina Announcing Vue…

Is component testing the future of UI testing?

September 4, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Redwood v8.0 Released — A long standing, opinionated React & GraphQL (and/or RSC) full-stack framework that covers all the bases for professional dev teams with best-in-class tool support. v8.0 introduces a background jobs system, Docker support, and easier SSR and RSC setup. If you’re unfamiliar with…

Achieving Zero Trust Security on Amazon EKS with Istio

September 3, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

This is the fourth blog post of our “Istio on EKS” series. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Istio, a powerful service mesh, enables organizations to implement a zero trust security model on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We will start by understanding…

Two new libraries from Sindre Sorhus

September 3, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node v22.8.0 (Current) Released — This landed just before we hit ‘send’! 🙂 The enhancements are minor, but there are a few, including a new API for enabling on-disk code caching of modules (rather than using the NODE_COMPILE_CACHE env var) and a way to set…

The Future of Business Software: Are Templates the Way Forward?

August 31, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Are templates the future of business software? Discover how these pre-designed blueprints are changing the industry and what it means for your business. Have you ever wondered how templates can save your business time and money? Are you curious about the real-world success stories of…