Blue/Green Deployments to Amazon ECS using AWS CloudFormation and AWS CodeDeploy

June 20, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Many customers use Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) for running their mission critical container-based applications on AWS. These customers are looking for safe deployment of application and infrastructure changes with minimal downtime, leveraging AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation natively supports performing Blue/Green…

The results are in

June 20, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

How React 19 (Almost) Made the Internet Slower — Even changes that are planned in advance can have big effects on the developer experience if people aren’t aware of them. A change to Suspense in React 19 led to much confusion and surprise, but the…

Using Google Sheets as a database

June 19, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

React 19 and Suspense: A Drama in Three Acts — It’s not a good sign when what at first appears to be a bug is actually intended and prescribed behavior. A cautionary tale, but one with a happy ending. Dominik Dorfmeister (AKA TkDodo) 💡 Henrique Yuji…

A snapshot of what’s new in Node

June 18, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node v22.3.0 (Current) Released — One of those releases where lots of tiny things have occurred, but little of broad significance, except… for snapshot testing! Snapshot tests serialize arbitrary values into string values to be compared against a set of pre-built known ‘good’ values (stored…

AI-Driven Project Specification Feature

June 14, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

We are excited to announce a significant enhancement tailored for our paid subscription users who thrive on precision and efficiency – generation of project specification. Effective immediately, users who generate projects via Flatlogic Generator’s AI will gain exclusive access to a newly integrated Specification tab.…

The biggest TypeScript release in years?

June 13, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

📝 I’ve recently encountered readers who’ve been surprised to learn this isn’t our only JavaScript newsletter. We have Node Weekly and React Status too – check them out if you’re a Node.js or React developer, as we focus more closely on them there! 🙂__Your editor, Peter…

The promises of React Compiler, tested

June 12, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Enhancing the React Migration Process with ‘Codemods’ — Codemod is an open-source platform for automating code migrations, cleanups and refactors. Upgrading to React 19 will involve a fair bit of that, so Codemod has partnered with the React team to build react-codemod – scripts to…

Leaky timeouts

June 11, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node is Leaking Memory? setTimeout Could Be The Reason — The folks at Sentry were running into problems with how Node handles timeouts created with setTimeout or, more specifically, problems caused by hanging on to the Timeout objects setTimeout returns.. Armin Ronacher Memetria: Efficient Redis Hosting…