Tag: automation

Automate safe AWS CloudFormation deployments from GitHub

November 27, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources, now supports using Git sync to automatically trigger a deployment whenever a tracked Git repository is updated. This enables developers to significantly speed up the development…

Introducing Amazon CodeWhisperer for command line

November 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The command line is used by over thirty million engineers to write, build, run, debug, and deploy software. However, despite how critical it is to the software development process, the command line is notoriously hard to use. Its output is terse, its interface is from…

Your DevOps and Developer Productivity guide to re:Invent 2023

November 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Your DevOps and Developer Productivity guide to re:Invent 2023 ICYMI – AWS re:Invent is less than a week away! We can’t wait to join thousands of builders in person and virtually for another exciting event. Still need to save your spot? You can register here.…

AWS Lambda gets a Node 20 LTS runtime

November 21, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

🥳 Talking of which, TypeScript 5.3 has been released. It supports the latest updates to the import attributes proposal, has enhanced type narrowing in numerous contexts, provides interactive inlay hints for types in the editor, and more. Node.js 20.x (LTS) Runtime Now Available in AWS Lambda…

Digging into explicit resource management

November 16, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Prettier 3.1 Released — The popular opinionated code formatter has a new release including support for the new control flow syntax in Angular 17 plus a new, experimental formatting option for ternary expressions (as in x ? y : z) explained in more depth in…

Introducing Amazon CodeWhisperer Dashboard and CloudWatch Metrics

October 16, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon CodeWhisperer, the AWS AI coding companion, can significantly improve developer productivity. Based on generative AI technology, Amazon CodeWhisperer offers contextualized code snippets, or recommendations, based on natural language prompts to build software quickly, responsibly, and securely. It enables productivity gains and increases accuracy for…

Blue/Green deployments using AWS CDK Pipelines and AWS CodeDeploy

October 12, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Customers often ask for help with implementing Blue/Green deployments to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using AWS CodeDeploy. Their use cases usually involve cross-Region and cross-account deployment scenarios. These requirements are challenging enough on their own, but in addition to those, there are specific…

Testing perfection for Node?

October 10, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

✍️ Due to being on the road attending the inaugural AI Engineer Summit, this week’s issue was meant to be far shorter than usual.. but I’m not sure it’s actually turned out that way 😅 In any case, we’re back to full service next week!__Your…