Shine recently took on management of a SaaS product hosted on AWS. Whilst getting up to speed with the application functionality and architecture, I had the task of upgrading the AWS RDS instances underlying the app to a new server type. This was due to...
It’s a simple question, often asked by project managers, data scientists, and quality engineers on every data engineering project when that first data source is ingested. How do we know the data that has been ingested into a data lake is accurate and error-free?
On a recent project we were asked by a client if it would be possible to host a React app using serverless technologies, but also ensure that traffic never left their VPC and corporate network.
In this post I'm going to talk about how we achieved this outcome, and how it proved to be more of a challenge than we first thought it would be.
In this post I will show how you can use tfsec to run security checks against your Terraform code, and address any issues that it finds. Furthermore, we'll use the Terratest Go library to make sure we don't accidentally cause any functional regressions along the...
TGRS stands for TypeScript, GraphQL, React and serverless. Over the last couple of years we have successfully built a number of enterprise single-page applications (SPAs) using this stack of technologies, as they complement each other well. In this post I'll talk about what our motivations have been for choosing...
For a long time, relational databases have been the answer to every data persistence need (whether they really suited the solution or not). But in the previous decade, there has been an explosion of different types of database engines. In this post I'm going to...
Learn how to get CloudFront to resize images for you on-the-fly....
