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. Many organisations and business are adopting Lambda as part…

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. …

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. …

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…

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…

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. Holding…

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***.

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…

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. Working with Style in React-Native is easy but it certainly has it’s pitfalls and many key CSS extensions that would be used without a…