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Feb 1, 2021

Azure Functions with a Static IP

A few years ago I wrote an article on running AWS Lambda functions with a static IP. The gist of the solution is fairly simple and has Lambdas executing inside of a VPC with a NAT Gateway attached to one if it’s subnets that governs the outbound IP of all…

Azure

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Azure

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Jan 20, 2021

AWS Lambda: Under the Hood — How Lambda Works

In my previous article, I gave an introduction to the serverless ecosystem on AWS and with slight weight to AWS Lambda. Continuing on from that post, it felt fitting to write an article that gave an introduction to how Lambda works. …

AWS

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AWS Lambda: Under the Hood — How Lambda Works
AWS Lambda: Under the Hood — How Lambda Works
AWS

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Oct 2, 2020

An Introduction to the AWS Serverless Ecosystem

Serverless is still considered to many as a new, emerging technology but the reality is that it isn’t actually that new at all. AWS first released Lambda back in 2014 and S3 even well before then. …

AWS

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An Introduction to the AWS Serverless Ecosystem
An Introduction to the AWS Serverless Ecosystem
AWS

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Feb 16, 2020

A first-hand experience of using Azure Data Factory

Over the last couple of months I’ve been working my first data engineering gig with a requirement that the ETL platform had to run inside the client’s Azure environments. …

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Mar 17, 2019

Deploying a static website to Azure Storage using Azure DevOps

I had a recent requirement to host a static website for a Government project in MS Azure. There was also an additional requirement that all testing, building and deployment should be automated using CI/CD in Azure DevOps. I’m fairly new to the world of Azure after having used AWS for…

Azure

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Azure

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Nov 21, 2016

React Native Firebase Authentication with FBLoginManager

Over the last few days I’ve been playing with Firebase because Firebase fits perfectly with React(Native) and to understand why I recommended you read this. When using Firebase in your application it’s preferred that all read/write requests made to your Firebase database are authenticated. My application already uses react-native-facebook-login and…

Firebase

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Firebase

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Nov 13, 2016

Disabling screen rotation in React Native (iOS)

These days, only a handful of applications (minus games) seem to support landscape mode. Application builders are aware of how users interact with their devices as the majority of the public hold their devices in one hand during their daily commutes, buying their groceries and other common day-to-day tasks. …

React Native

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Disabling screen rotation in React Native (iOS)
Disabling screen rotation in React Native (iOS)
React Native

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Nov 12, 2016

Fixing the React Native RCTSRWebSocket.m error

Occasionally when building a React Native application for iOS you’ll want to open the Xcode project and either build/simulate the application from within Xcode instead of running react-native run-ios --simulator "iPhone 7" from your Terminal. Almost always (at least for me) my builds from inside Xcode will initially fail per session (laptop reboot). The first time I saw this error , I was confused to f***.

React Native

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Fixing the React Native RCTSRWebSocket.m error
Fixing the React Native RCTSRWebSocket.m error
React Native

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Nov 7, 2016

AWS Lambda functions with a static IP

Internally at Compare52 we build a lot of server-less micro-services on AWS Lambda which is great for running stateless web services in the cloud that don’t need their web servers to be continuously running. AWS Lambda provides easy scaling and high availability to your application code without any effort or…

AWS

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AWS

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Nov 2, 2016

nth-child in React-Native

During the development of a native iOS app that I’m currently working on, the design required for a 2 column grid layout with borders in between. …

React Native

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nth-child in React-Native
nth-child in React-Native
React Native

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Matthew Leak

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