Announcing Effection 3.0 -- Structured Concurrency and Effects for JavaScript

Charles Lowell — December 18, 2023

A major milestone in bringing Structured Concurrency and Effects to JavaScript, Effection 3.0 has excellent TypeScript support, a powerful new context API, and harmonizes perfectly with the JavaScript APIs you know and love.

The await event horizon in JavaScript

Charles Lowell — December 11, 2023

Why async functions in JavaScript are insufficient as a Structured Concurrency primitive

Backstage: Unblock Innersource Development with Plugins and Code Owners.

Taras Mankovski — October 24, 2023

Navigating the challenges of inner-source Backstage portals? Discover how successful adopters harness code owners to streamline contributions and maintain code quality.

Backstage: How to fix linting errors without slowing down development

Min Kim — October 16, 2023

In this guide Min will show you a unique approach to tackling a mountain of linting errors without disrupting delivery

Deno is the best tool for maintaining NPM packages

Charles Lowell — May 01, 2023

Even if you primarily run your JavaScript in Node, Deno is a fantastic tool for building and distributing packages on NPM (and everywhere else). This article shows how to publish modules to both https://deno.land/x and https://npmjs.org using nothing more than the deno CLI.

Seven ways to build a single glass pane with Backstage

Taras Mankovski — January 22, 2023

Learn strategies for integrating external services into Backstage that improve discoverability and lower congantive load for your users

Dynamic Github Action Jobs

Jacob Bolda — December 12, 2022

Ever wanted to run parallel jobs in Github Actions with a high level of flexibility? We have, and now you can too!

Ingestion tests in Backstage Part 2: Safely refactoring an LDAP integration

Charles Lowell — December 05, 2022

To test whether the Backstage is setting up the Catalog properly, you must start a Backstage server, wait for a while, and assert. This feat is easier said than done. Here is part 2 in which Charles will guide you through it in this article.

OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker

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Paying Open Source Contributors with Puneet Lath

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Product Roadmaps and Tooling Planning with Steve Pereira

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Data, Trust, and Transparency: A COVID-19 Vaccine Story

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Type systems with ReasonML London organizer Marcel Cutts and Shane Wilson

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Intro to Rush.js with co-author Pete Gonzales

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