Amazon Q Developer just reached a $260 million dollar milestone

August 2, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

To help them be more productive, developers all over the world are turning to generative AI-powered assistants like Amazon Q Developer, the most capable assistant for accelerating software development. While Amazon Q Developer is great at providing code suggestions, writing new code is one of…

Diving into OCI Image and Distribution 1.1 Support in Amazon ECR

August 1, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports version 1.1 of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image and Distribution specifications. This latest version includes support for image referrers, as well as significant enhancements for distribution of non-image artifacts. We are excited…

Balance deployment speed and stability with DORA metrics

August 1, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Development teams adopt DevOps practices to increase the speed and quality of their software delivery. The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics provide a popular method to measure progress towards that outcome. Using four key metrics, senior leaders can assess the current state of team…

[Research Results] Starting Web App in 2024

August 1, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

We are thrilled to share the results of our third study on how to start web applications in 2024! Over the past few years, our studies on web app development in 2022 and 2023 have garnered significant attention and citations. This year, we have continued…

How Googlebot sees your JavaScript

August 1, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🏖️ Hi! Just a quick note to say that we’re taking next week off for a brief summer break. We’ll be back with our next issue on August 15.__Peter Cooper, your editor How Google Handles JavaScript In Its Indexing Process — Once, if you wanted…

Accelerate your Terraform development with Amazon Q Developer

July 31, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

This post demonstrates how Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI-powered assistant for software development, helps create Terraform templates. Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that provisions and manages infrastructure on AWS safely and predictably. When used in an integrated development environment (IDE), Amazon…

Exploring the Future of AI Web App Generators

July 31, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Ever wondered how AI will transform app development in the next few years? Stay with me as we dive into the future trends and unveil the game-changing tools that will shape our industry. As a developer, you might be asking: How will AI app generators…

The React Conf 2024 talks

July 31, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

🏖️ A quick note to say that we’re taking the next two weeks off for a summer break. We’ll be back with our next issue on Wednesday, August 21.__Peter Cooper, your editor The React Conf 2024 Talks — It was possible to catch up with…