Astro 2.0 and TypeScript 5.0 beta

January 27, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Astro 2.0: The Next-Gen ‘Islands’-Oriented Web Framework β€” 2.0 includes hybrid rendering (mixing of SSR and SSG outputs), type safety for Markdown & MDX, and an upgrade to Vite 4.0. Astro is worth exploring when performance is key as it works with popular frameworks but…

15 Best Alternatives to WordPress in 2023

January 26, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

WordPress is a content management system (CMS) used to create and manage websites. It is an open-source platform that allows users to easily create, edit, and publish content, such as text, images, and videos, on a website without comprehensive coding knowledge. It has an extensive…

Automating the desktop with Node

January 26, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Building Reliable Distributed Systems in Node β€” This post introduces the concept of durable execution which is used by a variety of companies and services to run reliable distributed systems. Temporal is a platform that coordinates workflows and durable jobs built around them. Loren Sands-Ramshaw IN…

Unlock the power of EC2 Graviton with GitLab CI/CD and EKS Runners

January 25, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Many AWS customers are using GitLab for their DevOps needs, including source control, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Many of our customers are using GitLab SaaS (the hosted edition), while others are using GitLab Self-managed to meet their security and compliance requirements. Customers…

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…