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Enhancing an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with Crossplane on EKS at SIXT

October 5, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

SIXT is a leading global mobility provider serving customers in over 100 countries worldwide. The company is committed to creating an exciting customer journey by delivering premium service and products. To deliver on its customer promise, SIXT is empowering its software developers to provide new…

Comparing test assertion styles in JavaScript

October 5, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs — Conflict-free replicated data types (the so-called CRDTs) provide a popular approach to replicate data across numerous clients and allow live collaboration between them without conflicts. This post really digs into what makes CRDTs tick well, complete with interactive examples. Jake…

Behind the Scenes on AWS Contributions to Open Source Databases

October 4, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

AWS managed open source services make it easier for customers to set up and operate their favorite open source projects on AWS. We help reduce the overhead of self-managing open source and provide better integrations with AWS services. In the process, we hire maintainers or…

Next.js vs Remix

October 4, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

✍️ Due to attending the AI Engineer Summit, there will be no React Status next week. We’ll be back on Wednesday, October 18 – see you then! 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor Next.js 13 vs Remix: A Case Study — No mere lightweight list of feature…

Cloud Native Operational Excellence (CNOE): A Joint Effort to Share Internal Developer Platform Tools and Best Practices

October 3, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Autodesk, Salesforce, and Twilio have come together to launch an open source initiative for building internal developer platforms (IDPs). Cloud Native Operational Excellence (aka, CNOE, pronounced Kuh.noo) is a joint effort to share developer tooling, thoughts, and patterns to help organizations…

Node 20 gets faster, approaches LTS status

October 3, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Honey, I Shrunk the npm Package! — Compression sits under the hood of everything on the modern Web, including npm packages (distributed as gzipped tarballs). Could the standard gzip approach be showing its age in both speed and effectiveness? Jamie runs a package through a…

Build and deploy to Amazon EKS with Amazon CodeCatalyst

October 2, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon CodeCatalyst is an integrated service for software development teams adopting continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) practices into their software development process. CodeCatalyst puts all of the tools that development teams need in one place, allowing for a unified experience for collaborating on, building, and…

Getting some closure

September 28, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The Saga of Google’s Closure Compiler — Dan looks back at Google’s Closure Compiler, a JavaScript transpiler Google built in 2004 and used most heavily in the pre-TypeScript era to reduce the size of JavaScript files, check types, and otherwise handle common pitfalls. A neat…

How to Create an Effective Enterprise Business Application: Essential Guide

September 27, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Understanding the ins and outs of these applications can be your golden ticket to competitive advantage and success. Get ready to navigate this comprehensive guide, filled with seasoned advice and actionable insights, all designed to enhance your organization’s capabilities. What are these business applications? How…

Using Amazon CodeCatalyst Blueprints to Build and Deploy a Video-On-Demand Application to AWS

September 27, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

In this blog post, we will walk you through how to create and launch new projects in minutes using Amazon CodeCatalyst Blueprints. Blueprints automatically generate source code and a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to deploy common patterns to your AWS account without requiring…

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