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8th

Apr

2025

Making Dockerised Web Application Serverless with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway

by James Ridgway

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).Read More

3rd

Apr

2025

What are some of the “things” in the Internet of Things?

by Ed Hardie

At The Curve we do a lot of talking about “The Internet of Things”, we offer IoT consultancy services, we even host IoT events, and at the office, there’s more often than not, a half-assembled “thing” sitting on a desk waiting for its life as a connected internet device to begin.Read More

IoT

3rd

Apr

2025

The Myth of the “Perfect” MVP: Why MVPs Are Often Too Fat

by James Ridgway

We’re often engaged by our clients to develop Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) of a given product or system. More often than not we see a common and recurring problem with the original brief – the “MVP” is packed full of features of varying shapes and sizes.Read More

1st

Apr

2025

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Joining Sify at the Cloud & AI Infrastructure London 2025

by Mai Mai Steele

Jake and I recently had the opportunity to attend the Cloud & AI Infrastructure London 2025. This event brought together top industry leaders, innovators, and professionals from across the cloud and AI sectors to explore the latest advancements in technology and infrastructure. Read More

28th

Mar

2025

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Melise Jones – Signing Off & Going Out on a High

by Jake Appleyard

Our Client Services Director, Melise Jones, reflects on her career – especially her time at The Curve.Read More

18th

Mar

2025

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Digital & AI Transformation for South Yorkshire Manufacturing

by Mai Mai Steele

As a recently appointed Freeman at the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, The Curve were given the opportunity to attend their regular monthly Tuesday Breakfast members event, and present a topic which gives rise to some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing companies today.Read More

Networking

1st

Mar

2025

Story Points Explained – A Comprehensive Guide

by James Ridgway

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.Read More

10th

Feb

2025

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DeepSeek and Future proofing AI strategies

by Mai Mai Steele

DeepSeek’s latest announcement is making waves, but while it’s a big splash today, the future of AI will look very different.We’re moving towards an era where AI capabilities won’t just be dominated by a few tech giants—smaller, specialised players will emerge, with powerful models rivaling today’s frontrunners. This shift brings both opportunity and risk. Read More

26th

Jan

2025

Approving Builds and Workflows with GitHub Actions and Microsoft Teams

by James Ridgway

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 approval process.Read More

22nd

Jan

2025

Fixing “unexpected stream termination” with Jenkins build agents

by James Ridgway

We use continuous integration and continuous deployment techniques regularly in the delivery of our projects. Whilst our team predominantly uses GitHub Actions these days, we’ve supported a variety of CI tooling including Jenkins and GitLab Pipelines.Read More

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