The joy of full-stack, AI-first Next.js

January 10, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

▶  React Server Components From Scratch — “Alright, let’s build React Server Components totally from scratch.” Right from nothing, through building a simple Node-based server and working out from there. Ben is very engaging and does a great job of explaining things. Ben Holmes 💡 Josh W…

Looking beyond code coverage with Amazon CodeWhisperer

January 9, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Code coverage is a code quality metric leveraging unit tests. Coming up with test cases with every combination of parameters requires developer’s time, which is already scarce. Developers’ focus is (mis)directed at just meeting the coverage threshold. In doing so, quality of code may be…

The latest npm registry shenanigans

January 9, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

The State of Benchmarking in Node.js — While Node has always been fast (thanks largely to its V8 underpinnings), there’s a renewed focus on performance in the face of benchmarks and claims from alternatives like Deno and Bun. Lars looks at the ecosystem of benchmarking…

Best practices for scaling AWS CDK adoption within your organization

January 7, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Enterprises are constantly seeking ways to accelerate their journey to the cloud. Infrastructure as code (IaC) is crucial for automating and managing cloud resources efficiently. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) lets you define your cloud infrastructure as code in your favorite programming language…

The most visited AWS DevOps blog posts in 2023

January 6, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

As we kick off 2024, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2023. Without further ado, here are the top 10 AWS DevOps blog posts of 2023. Unit Testing AWS Lambda with Python and Mock AWS Services – When building…

re:Invent 2023 DevOps and Developer Productivity Playlist

January 5, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

The dust has settled after another re:Invent. I once again had the privilege of organizing the DevOps and Developer Productivity (DOP) track along with Jessie VanderVeen, Anubhav Rao and countless others. For 2022, the DOP track included 59 sessions.  If you weren’t able to attend,…

The Complete AI No-Code Guide 2024

January 4, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

“Dive into the AI no-code world without writing a single line of code. Discover how AI no-code can revolutionize your approach to technology. Read on and unlock the future!” When you typed ‘AI no-code solutions’ into your search, what were you asking? “Can I build…

JavaScript’s rising stars

January 4, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

🌟 The 2023 JavaScript Rising Stars — At the start of each year, Michael rounds up the projects that gained the most popularity on GitHub in the prior year. Rocketing to #1 is the shadcn/ui suite of React components, but there are a lot of fresh…

Best Practices for Prompt Engineering with Amazon CodeWhisperer

January 3, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Generative AI coding tools are changing the way developers accomplish day-to-day development tasks. From generating functions to creating unit tests, these tools have helped customers accelerate software development. Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI-powered productivity tools for the IDE and command line that helps improve developer…

Flatlogic CEO, Philip Daineka, Interview With the WYTPod Podcast

January 3, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

We’d like to share a WYTPod Podcast that our CEO, Philip Daineko, recently participated in, where he shared insights on how to improve business operations with the power of custom CRM solutions and talked about the Flatlogic story. We’ve created a transcript of this podcast…