James Ridgway We process several hundred thousand pounds of transactions for our clients every week. During peak periods, we’ll process this volume in a single day alone, and in exceptional cases, within a few minutes. Taking money from customers may sound simple, but there are many different factors and facets that have to be considered when designing … Read more
Agile has been a popular software development methodology since the early 2000s. Despite being around for over two decades, agile can still be misunderstood or incorrectly applied. What is Agile? Agile software development is rooted in the Agile Manifesto, which was established in February 2001 following a meeting by a prominent set of individuals from … Read more
So what is Technical Debt? Who you ask will likely influence the answer that you get. Different perspectives will emphasise different aspects of the definition of “Technical Debt”. In this article, we dive into what is meant by technical debt and why, on occasion, seemingly simple changes can take more time to implement than you’d … Read more
Photo by Maik Jonietz on Unsplash Earlier last week, we learned that Ruby’s built-in net/http library contains a fundamental limitation — net/http does not automatically handle redirect status codes (3xx). As part of a feature sprint for a client, we had been tackling some functionality around PDFs issued by their system using wicked_pdf, which can generate PDFs from … Read more
In the quest to promote a culture and ethos of excellence and quality within the dev team at The Curve, it goes without saying that we should have a set of coding standards and best practices under which we operate. Not process for process sake, but a set of guidelines where everyone knows the expected … Read more
Using a Bastion or gateway host can be one of the quickest security measures that you can use to reduce the attach surface of resources running within your cloud environment. The idea of a Bastion host is fairly simple. A Bastion host is used to allow operational or internal access to resources within your cloud … Read more
When COVID struck and everyone went into lock down, a lot of businesses had to change how they worked to adjust to a new life of working from home. At The Curve we were fortunate that little changed in the transition to home working. For a lot of businesses there are one or more critical … Read more
We believe in delivering high quality software for our clients, so it probably comes as no surprise that we subscribe ourselves to numerous best practices such as test driven development, and we adopt a strong testing culture. On one project, we started getting a very cryptic error message when we ran the test suite: Frustratingly, … Read more
We’re all been there, we’ve had to set a password in a system and we’ve been told it’s not strong enough. Or we finally set a strong password only to be told 30 days later that we need to change our password. Password policies aren’t enough to encourage good security behaviour. A password policy enforces … Read more
Back in March, our team at The Curve responded to the challenges and uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. We pulled together to do what we could to help one another out, both personally and professionally. During those early days of the crisis, we launched In It Together – a community project meant to … Read more
