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Running TypeScript Directly with Node.js: No Build Step Required!

Running TypeScript Directly with Node.js: No Build Step Required!

Node.js now supports running TypeScript directly by stripping types at runtime, eliminating the need for a build step. TypeScript 5.8 introduces the erasableSyntaxOnly flag to ensure compatibility. This may streamline workflows and speed up development, although there are limitations to be aware of.

Ensure Node.js OpenTelemetry instrumentations are compatible with installed packages

Ensure Node.js OpenTelemetry instrumentations are compatible with installed packages

Telemetry is a core aspect of monitoring and observability; it helps making sure systems run smoothly, troubleshooting issues after the fact, or being alerted when things go pear-shaped. Losing telemetry seriously hinders those capabilities and it is what happened to me on my most recent project. I was lucky enough

Traces to logs correlation in AWS with Node.js

Traces to logs correlation in AWS with Node.js

Introduction I recently joined MakerX, and the first project I worked on was hosted in AWS using Fargate to run containers, CloudWatch for logs, and X-Ray for OpenTelemetry traces. To make troubleshooting easier, we wanted to see how we could get correlation between traces and logs, or, in other words,