Aspecto Engineering Blog

TL;DR — encoding and decoding string-intensive data in JavaScript is faster with JSON than it is with protobuf.

I recently worked on a small TypeScript project which I wanted to deploy as a Lambda to AWS. My project had multiple files and some npm…

TL;DR — if you use ts-node or ts-node-dev and care about RAM usage, use --tranpileOnly or tsc directly to reduce it dramatically.

This post shares some of our experience gained by writing nodejs plugins and debugging context issues at Aspecto.

TL;DR — new JS OpenTelemetry auto instrumentation plugin for aws-sdk is available here

TL;DR — new JS OpenTelemetry plugin for kafkajs, is available here.

Struggling with attaching an external EBS volume to your container when using CDK? I did too, but not anymore.

One of the common problems that people have with SQS and SNS is a message size limit. At the time of this writing, you can only send…

How to avoid native node modules (like fs, child_process, etc..) crashing your app while running on the browser (this post is not about…