Best practices for rapidly deploying Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

March 3, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) enables customers to deploy a flexible, configuration-driven solution to establish a landing zone while also leveraging AWS Control Tower. At AWS Professional Services, we’ve helped customers deploy and configure LZA hundreds of times. A common request we encounter is…

Doom for TypeScript types

February 28, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

✏️ Whenever we include more than a few links about TypeScript, we get complaints from people who don’t like it. We get that, we love you folks, and we’re aware. TypeScript isn’t our main focus but we do cover it, including critical pieces. That in…

AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer

February 27, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Today, we’re excited to announce that AWS Chatbot has been renamed to Amazon Q Developer, representing an enhancement to developer productivity through generative AI-powered capabilities. This update represents more than a name change – it’s an enhancement of our chat-based DevOps capabilities. By combining AWS…

AI Software Development: Trends for the Next 5 Years

February 27, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

AI has revolutionized our world, making traditional coding unnecessary. Now, the key question for businesses is: what comes next? It’s easy to guess that things have just begun, and AI software development has become one of the links in the chain reaction of changes. Those…

AI Web App Generator: Fast-Tracking Your App Development

February 26, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Imagine turning your app idea into reality within minutes instead of months! Whether you’re an entrepreneur, startup founder, or business owner, the ability to develop a fully functional web application quickly is a game-changer. Enter AI Web App Generators, a cutting-edge innovation that automates app…

React libraries for 2025

February 26, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

React Libraries for 2025 — Each year, prolific React blogger Robin updates his post covering his opinionated list of essential React ecosystem libraries. He covers a lot of angles from project creation and package management through to state management, animation, form creation, auth, and i18n. Robin…

Node 23.8 introduces the URL Pattern API

February 25, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

👋 Just in case you missed the message, we took last week off but we’re back now until Easter, so you didn’t miss anything. 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor. Subverting Control with Weak References — Node supports WeakMap and WeakRef for working with weak references and James…

Announcing CDK Garbage Collection

February 21, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open source framework that enables developers to define cloud infrastructure using a familiar programming language. Additionally, CDK provides higher level abstractions (Constructs), which reduce the complexity required to define and integrate AWS services together when building on…

The latest from TC39’s recent meeting

February 21, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

TC39 Advances 3 Proposals to Stage 4 — I love seeing Rob Palmer’s tweets about TC39’s progression of JavaScript proposals and this is a good roundup from this week’s meeting in Seattle. Areas covered include near-term features like Float16Array and import defer to more distant…

Streamline Development with New Amazon Q Developer Agents

February 19, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

As software development continues to evolve at a rapid pace, developers are constantly seeking tools that can streamline their workflow, improve code quality, and boost productivity. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has answered this call with the introduction of powerful new AI agents for Amazon Q…