Slack’s AI powered React testing tool migration

June 26, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

😅 A shorter and sweeter issue than usual today, as I’m currently on-site at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco! You can join me virtually, though, as some of the event will be livestreamed today and tomorrow 😉 See you back at full…

Should Node make ES modules easier to use?

June 25, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

✈️ I’ve produced this issue a day early due to being en-route to the AI Engineer World’s Fair, so any last minute news may be missed. If you’re there, do come and say hi, but you can also watch from afar through the livestreams that…

Templates vs Customization: What’s Best for Your Admin Panel?

June 24, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Curious about how to optimize your admin panel? Stick with us till the end to uncover whether templates or customization suits you best! When contemplating the best approach to develop an admin panel, you might find yourself asking several pressing questions. Should you opt for…

Five ways Amazon Q simplifies AWS CloudFormation development

June 24, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction As a builder, AWS CloudFormation provides a reliable way for you to model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code. First-time and experienced users of CloudFormation can often encounter some challenges when it comes to development of templates and…

Fault-isolated, zonal deployments with AWS CodeDeploy

June 23, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

In this blog post you’ll learn how to use a new feature in AWS CodeDeploy to deploy your application one Availability Zone (AZ) at a time to help increase the operational resilience or your services through improved fault isolation. Introducing change to a system can…

AWS CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) v1

June 21, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction The CloudFormation Linter, cfn-lint, is a powerful tool designed to enhance the development process of AWS CloudFormation templates. It serves as a static analysis tool that checks CloudFormation templates for potential errors and best practices, ensuring that your infrastructure as code adheres to AWS…

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…