In the last few years as companies have modernized their business applications, many have moved to microservices based architectures using containers on Kubernetes. A lot of the initial focus was on designing and building new cloud native architectures to support the applications. As environments have grown, we’ve seen a shift in focus to optimize resource […]
#631 — March 24, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem: npm Scripts — The latest in what has been a fascinating series on finding ‘low hanging fruit’ when it comes to performance in the JavaScript world. The author explains it best himself: “‘npm scripts’ are executed by JavaScript developers […]
Do you want to investigate the potential of having a custom CRM system for your business? What are the characteristics of custom CRM systems? Or curious about the cost and what it would take to build a custom CRM system? Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are widely available to businesses today. Custom software development is […]
FFmpeg is an industry standard, open source, widely used utility for handling video. FFmpeg has many capabilities, including encoding and decoding all video compression formats, encoding and decoding audio, encapsulating and extracting audio and video from transport streams, and much more. If AWS customers want to use FFmpeg on AWS, they have to maintain FFmpeg […]
#630 — March 17, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly ???? Transformers.js: Running ML Models in the Browser — Transformers are a type of machine learning model often used for natural language or visual processing and while running such models directly in the browser is in its infancy, Transformers.js opens up some ML models […]
If you are looking for an effective and efficient way to manage your business, then a custom enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is the perfect solution. Custom ERP systems allow businesses to collect, store, and analyze information from several departments in one database, making it easier for executives to manage all fundamental business operations. Furthermore, […]
Organizations that interface with online payments are continuously monitoring and guarding against fraudulent activity. Transactional fraud usually presents itself as discrete data points, making it challenging to identify multiple actors involved in the same group of transactions. Even a single actor operating over a period of time can be hard to detect. Visibility is key […]
If you are hosting your own server productivity suite or file storage software, you cannot overlook Nextcloud, an open source platform to store, share and manage files over the web. In our previous blog post, we demonstrated how to securely connect your Nextcloud server with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), allowing you to scale […]
#629 — March 10, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript Features from the Past Few Years — Packed with examples, this post tackles the changes and tweaks to JavaScript and TypeScript over the past several years (some as far back as ES6/ES2015, like tagged template literals). Linus Schlumberger Astro’s 2023 Web Framework Performance Report — […]
If you’ve been following along with recent jQuery releases, we have been working on how to address the recent addition of some new selectors in browsers, especially :has. jQuery 3.6.3 settled on the strategy of using native CSS.supports to determined whether a selector should be passed directly to querySelectorAll or instead go through jQuery’s selector […]
We would like to acknowledge the help and support Vikram Sethi, Isaac Mosquera, and Carlos Santana provided to make this blog post better. Thank you! In our previous blog posts [1,2,3], we have discussed a growing trend towards our customers adopting GitOps and Kubernetes native tooling to provision infrastructure resources. AWS customers are choosing open […]
#628 — March 3, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Sandworm Audit: A New JS Auditing Tool — A command-line tool to scan a project and dependencies for vulnerabilities, license issues, and related problems. You get JSON reports, visualizations of dependency trees, and a CSV of all dependencies and license information. Sandworm Experiments with the JavaScript […]
FFmpeg is an open source tool commonly used by media technology companies to encode and transcode video and audio formats. FFmpeg users can leverage a cost efficient Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance for their video on demand (VOD) encoding workloads now that AWS offers VT1 support on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). VT1 offers […]
So, you’re wondering if frontend development is easier than backend development. Truth be told, the question is rather challenging. Frontend and backend development are two somewhat complicated aspects of web development in 2023. Fortunately for you, we’ll determine which type of development is more challenging in this article: frontend or backend! Do you ever wonder […]
#627 — February 24, 2023 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly ???? Strudel REPL: Live JavaScript Music in the Browser — This is a lot of fun. It’s a little online sandbox for putting together small musical experiments written in JavaScript. Use the ‘shuffle’ button at the top right until you find something you like […]