This post is the last in a three-part series comparing two close substitutes in Javascript: classes and the “closure pattern” (also frequently known as the factory class pattern). Part one argued… (more…)

30000 lines of client-side JavaScript. No tests. Two difficult TV deployment platforms with poor tooling. Strong dependencies on poorly documented external APIs. The task: add support for a third TV platform to the two supported platforms and switch to a ...

I recently received this kind message on LinkedIn from the president of a Canadian cybercrime technology company: (more…)

JavaScript has a concurrency model based on an "event loop". This model is quite different from models in other languages like C and Java. (more…)

We’re happy to announce that the @aws/dynamodb-data-mapper package is now in Developer Preview and available for you to try via npm. The Amazon DynamoDB DataMapper for JavaScript is a high-level client for writing and reading structured data to and from D... (more…)