11 years of JavaScript on top

June 15, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Perhaps best known as the creator of Angular, Miško is on a fresh mission with Qwik. Recently reaching v1.0 and focusing on the ‘instant’ delivery of full-stack apps to end users, Qwik takes an interesting approach around ‘streaming’ JavaScript to the client only when needed.…

A Million.js to one

June 14, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Million.js: A Performance-Focused VDOM Replacement for React — Starting life two years ago as a small, library-agnostic virtual DOM implementation, Million has recently presented itself as a performance enhancement for React: “Imagine React components running at the speed of raw JavaScript.” You don’t get this…

Let’s get debugging

June 13, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Node v20.3.0 (Current) Released — On paper, it’s a minor release, but a libuv upgrade (the library that provides Node with its async I/O functionality) introduces significant performance improvements on Linux, AbortSignal.any() has been introduced, and Ruy Adorno’s presence on the Node.js TSC is officially recognized.…

How organizations are modernizing for cloud operations

June 10, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Over the past decade, we’ve seen a rapid evolution in how IT operations teams and application developers work together. In the early days, there was a clear division of responsibilities between the two teams, with one team focused on providing and maintaining the servers and…

Balancing governance and agility with AWS CodeBuild

June 8, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction In my role I regularly have conversations with customers who want to enforce security and governance best practices while providing developers the flexibility and agility they need to innovate quickly. As you embrace DevSecOps, you likely seek to balance governance and agility in your…

Douglas Crockford calls JavaScript ‘smelly.’

June 8, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Announcing TypeScript 5.1 — This release of the statically typed JavaScript superset is a gentle ‘quality of life’ step forward rather than a featureful extravaganza, but we get support for linked editing of JSX tag names, namespaced JSX attributes, the ability to have unrelated types…

React’s turning into Angular, PHP, and what else now?

June 7, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Dan Abramov’s Deep Dive into React Server Components — Having faced a raft of questions about Server Components, Dan has sat down to write a series covering everything from the ground up by reimplementing a basic form of RSC from scratch. It’s not aimed at…