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12th

Aug

2024

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Unpacking the CrowdStrike Outage: What It Signals for the Future of IT Resilience

by James Ridgway

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.Read More

6th

Jun

2024

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What are WebSockets, and Why Are They Essential for IoT?

by James Ridgway

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. Read More

IoT

6th

Jun

2024

Understanding WebTransport and Its Advantages Over WebSockets in the IoT Landscape

by James Ridgway

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 works, and why it represents a significant improvement over WebSockets, especially in the context of IoT.Read More

IoT

3rd

May

2024

Understanding the Cold Start Problem with AWS Lambda

by James Ridgway

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.Read More

17th

Jan

2024

What we’ve learned from processing £100k+ of transactions every week

by 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 and building a payment system.Read More

15th

Jan

2024

Demystifying Agile Software Development

by James Ridgway

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.Read More

1st

Jul

2022

Why Pull Requests Alone Won’t Give you a Good Code Review

by James Ridgway

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 standards to build well-coded software.Read More

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