Author: Mark Otto

Top 15 No-code Platforms To Scale Your Business in 2023

January 24, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The rise of digital transformation came with the need for businesses to automate and implement quickly if they ever want to scale and compete in the market. However, many businesses struggle with the technical expertise and costs required to do this efficiently. The solution: no-code…

Managing Dev Environments with Amazon CodeCatalyst

January 24, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

An Amazon CodeCatalyst Dev Environment is a cloud-based development environment that you can use in CodeCatalyst to quickly work on the code stored in the source repositories of your project. The project tools and application libraries included in your Dev Environment are defined by a…

Develop a serverless application in Python using Amazon CodeWhisperer

January 23, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

While writing code to develop applications, developers must keep up with multiple programming languages, frameworks, software libraries, and popular cloud services from providers such as AWS. Even though developers can find code snippets on developer communities, to either learn from them or repurpose the code,…

Building .NET 7 Applications with AWS CodeBuild

January 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed DevOps service for building and testing your applications. As a fully managed service, there is no infrastructure to manage and you pay only for the resources that you use when you are building your applications. CodeBuild provides a default…

The most visited AWS DevOps blogs in 2022

January 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

As we kick off 2023, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2022. Without further ado, here are the top 10 AWS DevOps Blog posts of 2022. #1: Integrating with GitHub Actions – CI/CD pipeline to deploy a Web App…

How To Choose The Right CRM For Your Specific Product

January 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for your specific product can be quite challenging. With the right CRM, it is possible to improve brand experiences, get insights into consumer behavior, and boost income. But how to choose the right CRM for your product?…

Manually Approving Security Changes in CDK Pipeline

January 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

In this post I will show you how to add a manual approval to AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Pipelines to confirm security changes before deployment. With this solution, when a developer commits a change, CDK pipeline identifies an IAM permissions change, pauses execution, and…

Why document.write() is bad

January 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Why Not document.write()? — Many moons ago, document.write was a mainstay of client-side JavaScript code, but it’s long been considered a bad practice – why? Harry digs in, noting that it “guarantees both a blocking fetch and a blocking execution, which holds up the parser…

We’re going on a memory leak hunt

January 19, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Fixing a Memory Leak in a Production Node App — Kent encountered a variety of weird memory and CPU usage spikes in his Node-powered app and decided to figure out what was going on. This post walks through his complete journey, with plenty of side…