James Ridgway 
September was a busy month for us at The Curve, but Paul and I were able to get some time out of the office to attend The Things Conference in Amsterdam. The conference focused on showcasing the diverse applications of LoRaWAN (Low Range Wide Area Network) technology across various sectors, including smart agriculture, industrial IoT, … Read more
At The Curve, we build products for our clients. These could be business systems that are used by internal stakeholders that we develop using a product mindset, or B2C products our clients then use with their own customers. Building a product or system is not easy, there are many pitfalls and obstacles that often have … Read more
On the 19th July 2024, the world witnessed what could easily be described as the largest global outage IT outage in history when CrowdStrike, a cyber security solutions provider, shipped a defective security update that impacted an estimated 8.5 million Windows computers worldwide. Whilst the number of affected computers equates to less than 1% of … Read more
Advances in IoT (The Internet of Things) technology has revolutionised the way devices interact with each other and with us. From smart homes to industrial automation, IoT devices rely on continuous, real-time communication to operate efficiently and effectively. WebSockets, is a realtime communication protocol designed for full-duplex communication over a single TCP connection. WebSockets can … Read more
As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand, the need for efficient, reliable, and scalable communication protocols becomes increasingly crucial. WebSockets have been a popular choice for real-time communication between devices and servers, but a new contender, WebTransport, is emerging as a powerful alternative. This blog post delves into what WebTransport is, how it … Read more
AWS Lambda and Azure Functions are popular Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offerings and are a staple of the serverless landscape. With FaaS offerings the cloud provider is responsible for running and managing the underlying compute that powers the service. This allows you to focus solely on building out your function. These serverless platforms automatically scale resources based … Read more
Modern cloud environments provide several different mechanisms and services for deploying a web application. In a more traditional scenario, an application may be deployed to a bare metal server or a virtual machine (VM). The rise and success of Docker have led many cloud platforms to offer means of hosting dockerised applications without having to … Read more
Story points estimation is an estimation method that is often used in agile software development. Story points are a unit of measure used in agile project management to estimate and compare the complexity, effort, and relative size of features or user stories within a project. Instead of providing precise time-based estimates, teams assign story points collaboratively, … Read more
Sometimes it can be useful to request a manual approval before a deploy is unleashed on production. GitHub supports manual approval when you use environments, but only on public repositories or private repositories for GitHub Enterprise. In this post, I look at how GitHub Actions and Microsoft Teams can be used to create a manual … Read more
Estimating the effort involved in any project can be a challenge, and software projects are no different. Arriving at an accurate estimate and plan is tricky, to get right. At the start of any project, there is a large amount of uncertainty and numerous assumptions that have to be tackled. These can be refined over … Read more
