Author: Mark Otto

Create a Managed FFmpeg Workflow for Your Media Jobs Using AWS Batch

March 21, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

FFmpeg is an industry standard, open source, widely used utility for handling video. FFmpeg has many capabilities, including encoding and decoding all video compression formats, encoding and decoding audio, encapsulating and extracting audio and video from transport streams, and much more. If AWS customers want…

Transformers: JavaScript in Disguise

March 17, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

????  Transformers.js: Running ML Models in the Browser — Transformers are a type of machine learning model often used for natural language or visual processing and while running such models directly in the browser is in its infancy, Transformers.js opens up some ML models to…

Shell-free scripting from Node

March 16, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Turbowatch: File Change Detector and Task Orchestrator — Not just that but it claims to be extremely fast and “if you ever wanted something like Nodemon but more capable, then you are at the right place.” This looks very promising and the README is full…

Vite vs Create React App

March 15, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Of course, an even faster option will be along before long.. ah, yes, Rspack is a new player in this space to check out too! ???? Meet the React.js Core Team — The new React documentation site has a neat page showing off the hard working…

Custom ERP System: Benefits, Requirements & Cost of Development

March 14, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

If you are looking for an effective and efficient way to manage your business, then a custom enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is the perfect solution. Custom ERP systems allow businesses to collect, store, and analyze information from several departments in one database, making it…

Building Automation for Fraud Detection Using OpenSearch and Terraform

March 14, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Organizations that interface with online payments are continuously monitoring and guarding against fraudulent activity. Transactional fraud usually presents itself as discrete data points, making it challenging to identify multiple actors involved in the same group of transactions. Even a single actor operating over a period…

New JavaScript features of the past few years

March 10, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

JavaScript Features from the Past Few Years — Packed with examples, this post tackles the changes and tweaks to JavaScript and TypeScript over the past several years (some as far back as ES6/ES2015, like tagged template literals). Linus Schlumberger Astro’s 2023 Web Framework Performance Report — The…

Taking flight with Feathers 5

March 9, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Feathers 5: The API and Real-Time App Framework — Feathers isn’t as well known as Nest or Fastify, say, but it’s a powerful and mature option if you want to spin up a Node CRUD app tied to a database and now it’s “TypeScript all…

Were React hooks a mistake? Take 2.

March 8, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Why You Should Use a React ‘Framework’ — Whether it’s Next.js, Gatsby, Remix, or something else, using a bigger framework that itself uses React is de rigueur in 2023. Lee examines why, complete with a nice iceberg metaphor, and does a good job of boiling…