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July 11, 2023
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Mark Otto
Barclays is a British, multinational universal bank. Its businesses include consumer banking and a top-tier global investment and corporate bank that deploys finance responsibly to support people and their businesses. Engineering teams at Barclays strive to provide a best-in-class user experience to their customers, irrespective…
June 22, 2023
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Mark Otto
With its implementation of the cluster construct, Kubernetes has streamlined the ability to schedule workloads across a collection of virtual machines (VMs) or nodes. Declarative configuration, immutability, auto-scaling, and self-healing have vastly improved the paradigm of workload management within the cluster. As a result, teams…
June 22, 2023
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Mark Otto
UnsuckJS: Comparing Lightweight JavaScript Options — “No build tools, no compilers, and no hassle.” It’s a table of frontend JavaScript libraries on a simple page – that’s it! But it’s a handy table, letting you see the relative popularity, size, and latest versions of libraries as…
June 20, 2023
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Mark Otto
▶ Recreating a JS Runtime to Understand Node’s Magic — Popular speaker, educator, Microsoft MVP and Node.js core team member Erick gives a very enthusiastic talk on the latest ‘hello world’ in the JavaScript world: building a runtime 😏 Somehow, Erick manages to run through the…
June 13, 2023
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Mark Otto
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes. It has native support for AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) users and roles as entities that can authenticate against a cluster. However, some of our…
May 31, 2023
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Mark Otto
▶ Celebrating 10 Years of React — Grab yourself a slice of cake, React is 10 years old. As part of the celebrations, Vercel’s Delba de Oliveira ▶️ hosted a ‘roundtable’ discussion (though the table itself has taken the day off ????) with Andrew Clark and…
May 17, 2023
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Mark Otto
Many AWS customers have the requirement to host their own email solution and prefer to operate mail severs over using fully managed solutions (e.g. Amazon WorkMail). While certainly there are merits to either approach, motivations for self-managing often include: full ownership and control need for…
May 17, 2023
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Mark Otto
▶ React from Another Dimension with Dan Abramov — At Remix Conf 2023, Meta’s Dan Abramov (of both React and Redux fame) gave an illuminating talk about server-side components and server actions, by way of thinking about what React might have been like if the modern JavaScript…
May 10, 2023
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Mark Otto
Cedar is an open source language and software development kit (SDK) for writing and enforcing authorization policies for your applications. You can use Cedar to control access to resources such as photos in a photo-sharing app, compute nodes in a micro-services cluster, or components in…
May 10, 2023
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Mark Otto
Fuzz testing or fuzzing is a commonly used technique for discovering bugs in software, and is useful in many different domains. However, the task of configuring a target to be fuzzed can be a laborious one, often involving refactoring large code bases to enable fuzz…