Exploring JavaScript (ES2024 Edition)

July 18, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

WorkOS: The Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS — Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. WorkOS provides flexible, easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes. It’s used by hundreds of high-growth startups including Perplexity, Vercel, Drata, & Webflow.…

Getting Started with Cilium Service Mesh on Amazon EKS

July 17, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Cilium is an open source solution for providing, securing, and observing network connectivity between workloads, powered by the revolutionary kernel technology called extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF). eBPF enables the dynamic insertion of security, visibility, and networking logic into the Linux kernel. Cilium provides high-performance…

Free Open-Source CRM Software for Small Business

July 17, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

“For small businesses in the digital age, choosing the correct Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool can make all the difference.” When looking for CRM software, you can find yourself wondering: How may CRM tools enable my small firm to expand Which free open-source CRM choices…

Why use Redux in 2024?

July 17, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

What React Devs Need to Know About React Native — While React and React Native share many similarities, they’re pretty different under the hood. Here’s some of what you need to know to either make the transition, or at least be more informed on where React…

Stream if you wanna go faster

July 16, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Work Progresses on node:sqlite — Last week, we featured efforts to include SQLite and a client library into the Node distribution. Things continue to progress quickly, with the feature proposed for inclusion in the forthcoming Node v22.5. You can see how it’ll work in this…

Chat about your AWS account resources with Amazon Q Developer

July 14, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

The traditional way customers had to interact with AWS account resources was through the AWS Management Console, SDKs, or command line interface (CLI) calls. However, these methods do not provide a quick way to gather information about AWS resources without writing scripts or navigating thought…

AWS announces workspace context awareness for Amazon Q Developer chat

July 13, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the release of workspace context awareness in Amazon Q Developer chat. By including @workspace in your prompt, Amazon Q Developer will automatically ingest and index all code files, configurations, and project structure, giving the chat comprehensive context across your…

Do the (ESLint) Evolution

July 11, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

es-toolkit: A Modern JavaScript Utility Library — Think Lodash but newer, faster, smaller, and with tree shaking and built-in TypeScript support. The reference guide shows off the supported functions so far – it’s not quite as extensive as Lodash, but it’s getting there with the…

ProofHub vs. Trello: A Head-to-Head Comparison

July 10, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Finding the right project management tool can feel overwhelming. You want something intuitive, powerful, and budget-friendly. You might have narrowed your search to the showdown: ProofHub vs. Trello.  But how do you know which one best suits your team’s needs? Modern projects are complex. Many…

React Compiler won’t always save you

July 10, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

React Flow 12: Build Node-Based Editors and Interactive Diagrams — Now more broadly known as xyflow, this mature library makes it easy to create ‘node-based UIs’ where you want to have numerous interactive components wired together however you choose. Version 12 introduces server side rendering…