Event-Driven Architecture at Amazon, Socket Joins OpenJS, and CSS Gets Scroll State Queries

Reducing Onboarding From 48 Hours to 4: Inside Amazon Key's Event-Driven Platform

TLDR: Amazon Key's engineering team ripped out a tightly coupled monolith and replaced it with a centralized event-driven system on Amazon EventBridge. The result? Onboarding new teams dropped from 48 hours to just 4, and the architecture now scales cleanly across multiple AWS accounts.

Link: Reducing Onboarding From 48 Hours to 4: Inside Amazon Key's Event-Driven Platform

Socket Joins the OpenJS Foundation

TLDR: Socket, the supply chain security company, has joined the OpenJS Foundation as a Silver Member. Their engineers maintain packages that account for roughly 10% of all npm downloads, which makes this move both strategic and deeply consequential for the JavaScript ecosystem.

Link: Socket Joins the OpenJS Foundation

CSS @container scroll-state: Replace JS Scroll Listeners Now

TLDR: CSS now has @container scroll-state, a declarative way to query scroll position and state without JavaScript. This means sticky headers, parallax effects, and scroll-driven UI changes can be done entirely in CSS with better performance.

Link: CSS @container scroll-state: Replace JS scroll listeners now