Introduction:Let's face it - keeping everyone on the same page in a large project can sometimes feel like herding cats. Designers want pixel perfection, developers want maintainable code, and stakeholders just want it done yesterday. Meet the powerful pair of design systems: Figma and Storybook,...
A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to go to Web Directions Summit 2023 in Sydney, Australia. The main theme of this year’s conference was (of course) AI. In this post we will focus on what we learnt in the areas of AI,...
Keeping up with the blazingly fast-changing landscape of front-end engineering and Javascript can be challenging. From build tools to full-blown frameworks, we are spoilt for choice – and sometimes bewildered by it.Determined to cut through the noise and be a guiding light, Web Directions Code...
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.
TL;DRWe’ve all heard that Lambdas written in Java are slow, but there's more that we developers can do to help improve Java Lambda execution times, especially from a cold start. There can also be significant improvements made from a warm startup.Java's 0.7s cold start time...
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...
Recently I worked on a personal project to help support the Linux distro I use as a daily driver, Manjaro. I set up a package mirror to allow users from the community to connect to my server and pull updates or new packages for install....
Learn how to get CloudFront to resize images for you on-the-fly....
Cloudflare Dev Workshop 2020In mid-February, I had the privilege to attend the first Melbourne Cloudflare dev event. This was just one of a series of sessions they ran across the country to reach out to developers and help educate people around their thinking and the...