AWS Lambda Adds Container Image Support — And AWS uses Node in this post to show off the new feature. AWS Lambda is a serverless platform where you upload code and then it can be executed on a ‘pay as you go’ basis. Supporting containers might feel better to many developers wary of Lambda’s usual ‘upload a ZIP file’ approach. Lambda also now bills in 1 millisecond increments with a 1 millisecond minimum, so it may be worth another look.

Danilo Poccia (AWS)

csv-parser 3.0: A Streaming CSV Parser Aimed at Maximum Speed — Aiming to “be faster than everyone else”, use this to ingest CSV and get JSON in return. neat-csv provides a Promise-based wrapper if you need it.

Mathias Buus

Redis 6.0 on RedisGreen — SSL encryption, key size tracking, memory mapping, online upgrades, and more.

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npm 7: This Is What I Call An Update! — npm 7 came out in October, but here the author sings its praises and why workspaces and peer dependency management have meant to a lot to him.

Fernando Doglio

Measuring Web Page Performance with Puppeteer or Playwright — Puppeteer and Playwright are useful for remote controlling headless browsers, and you can use some new Web performance APIs with them to do remote or even automated performance measurement of Web pages.

Giovanni Rago

Mining Your CLI History for Good git Aliases — How a little shell magic can tell you a lot about your working habits and help you make things even more efficient.

Tim Perry

How to Deploy a Node App to AWS Fargate with Auto-Scaling — If full on AWS Lambda isn’t for you, maybe AWS Fargate (basically a serverless compute engine for containers) could get you running serverlessly without a huge paradigm shift.

Matthew Kindzerske

5 Ways Organizations Can Lean into Failure and Transform It into Success

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How to Understand the reduce Function in Five Examples — Summing, seeking, chaining, and generally bringing things together.

Valeri Karpov

Malicious npm Packages Caught Installing Remote Access Trojans — Devs who installed the jdb.js and db-json.js packages were vulnerable to the njRAT malware.

Catalin Cimpanu

DuckDB Gets a Node.js API — DuckDB is an interesting, embeddable SQL OLAP DBMS. Think SQLite, but more oriented towards analytics. More on why you might use DuckDB.

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auth.js 3.0: GitHub API Authentication Library for Node and Browser — An official library, no less, and it supports four auth strategies.

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pg-mem: An Experimental In-Memory Postgres Instance for Tests — I’m not sure about this approach for the long term as it’s a clone with its own SQL parser and will not behave identically to Postgres, but if you’re a Node developer maybe it’ll be of interest. There’s a playground if you want to experiment with what it can handle.

Olivier Guimbal

Full-Featured API That Lets You Build Beautiful Video for Your Node App

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Serverless-Postgres: Manage Postgres Connections at Serverless Scale in Node.js — RDS Proxy is one way to handle lots of simultaneous database connections but.. costs money. This doesn’t, and if you’re using a library built on top of node-pg, you might find it useful.

Matteo Gioioso

Node.js Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers and work on projects for Riot Games, FOX, Sony, Coinbase, and more.

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