Event-Driven Architecture at Amazon, Socket Joins OpenJS, and CSS Gets Scroll State Queries
Published on 20.02.2026
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.
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.
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.
CSS @container scroll-state: Replace JS scroll listeners now