Node 23.8 introduces the URL Pattern API

February 25, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

👋 Just in case you missed the message, we took last week off but we’re back now until Easter, so you didn’t miss anything. 🙂__Peter Cooper, your editor. Subverting Control with Weak References — Node supports WeakMap and WeakRef for working with weak references and James…

Announcing CDK Garbage Collection

February 21, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open source framework that enables developers to define cloud infrastructure using a familiar programming language. Additionally, CDK provides higher level abstractions (Constructs), which reduce the complexity required to define and integrate AWS services together when building on…

The latest from TC39’s recent meeting

February 21, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

TC39 Advances 3 Proposals to Stage 4 — I love seeing Rob Palmer’s tweets about TC39’s progression of JavaScript proposals and this is a good roundup from this week’s meeting in Seattle. Areas covered include near-term features like Float16Array and import defer to more distant…

Streamline Development with New Amazon Q Developer Agents

February 19, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

As software development continues to evolve at a rapid pace, developers are constantly seeking tools that can streamline their workflow, improve code quality, and boost productivity. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has answered this call with the introduction of powerful new AI agents for Amazon Q…

Best SAP Alternatives 2025: Choose the Right ERP

February 19, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Forbes says, “The biggest reason ERP implementations fail is because companies don’t have a clear understanding of their business needs and how the software can meet them.”  For a long time, SAP has been a market leader for enterprise management. However, as technology evolves, many…

AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review

February 18, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code-base templates. Whether you prefer writing templates directly in JSON or YAML, or using programming languages like Python, Java, and TypeScript with the AWS Cloud Development…

Open Source CRM For Nonprofits: Best Picks For 2025

February 18, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Are you working in a nonprofit and don’t know which CRM to use? Read on as we dive into the best open source CRMs for nonprofits in 2025. Do nonprofits need to use CRMs too? What makes a CRM suitable for nonprofit organizations? Which CRMs…

Deploying and Managing Application Configurations using AWS AppConfig

February 17, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

The management of configurations across multiple environments and tenants poses a significant challenge in modern software development. Organizations must balance maintaining distinct settings for various environments while accommodating the unique needs of different tenants in multi-tenant architectures. This complexity is compounded by requirements for consistency,…

Top 10 Best AI Software Development Agents in 2025

February 14, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

AI is no longer just assisting developers – it’s building, debugging, and deploying software. Discover the top AI software development agents of 2025 and how they compare. When searching for AI-driven development tools, you probably ask: Which AI software development agents can build and maintain…

It’s time to go ESM-only

February 14, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Style Observer: A Library to Observe CSS Property Changes — Lea Verou is a developer who’s easy to admire because whenever she sets out to solve a problem, the results are always fully formed with no cut corners. So it goes with this ‘exhaustively tested’ JS…