Tag: platform

How to use Amazon CodeWhisperer using Okta as an external IdP

October 27, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Customers using Amazon CodeWhisperer often want to enable their developers to sign in using existing identity providers (IdP), such as Okta. CodeWhisperer provides support for authentication either through AWS Builder Id or AWS IAM Identity Center. AWS Builder ID is a personal profile for builders.…

Multiple Load Balancer Support in AWS CodeDeploy

October 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to various compute services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Lambda, and on-premises servers. AWS CodeDeploy recently announced support for deploying to applications that use…

Why is Low-Code the Future of App Development?

September 8, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Low-code application development has been experiencing explosive growth in recent years, and it’s time you learned more about it. For as long as computers have been part of the workplace, application development has been a necessity for businesses of all kinds. So, a question on…

Running Node.js on the iPad?

May 2, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Now Node.js Can Run on Every Major Browser Engine — The actual story is that WebContainers can now run on Safari, iOS and iPadOS much as they could on Firefox or Chrome before, meaning Node.js, too, can run directly within all of those browsers, if…

Node v20 released

April 18, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js 20 Released — A quirk of fate meant this issue was delayed for a couple of hours and.. Node v20 was launched in that time. Phew! This means we haven’t had much time to digest the news, though, but the key updates include: Experimental support…

Node.js challengers gaining ground

March 23, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Deno 1.32 Released with Enhanced Node Compatibility — I know this is a Node newsletter, but given Deno’s provenance and continuing insistence for Node.js compatibility, this is Node news in a round about way. 1.32 ships with TypeScript 5 and extends package.json support in particular. Deno…

Using GitHub Actions with Amazon CodeCatalyst

February 9, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

An Amazon CodeCatalyst workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. You can use GitHub Actions alongside native CodeCatalyst actions in a CodeCatalyst workflow. Introduction: In a prior…

Journey to adopt Cloud-Native DevOps platform Series #1: OfferUp modernized DevOps platform with Amazon EKS and Flagger to accelerate time to market

January 31, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

In this two part series, we discuss the challenges faced by OfferUp, a Digital Native customer, to meet business growth and time-to-market. Their journey involved modernizing their existing DevOps platform, from the traditional monolith virtual machine (VM) based architecture to modern containerized architecture and running…