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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.

In this article we look at compiling applications for different CPU architectures using Docker to emulate on an x86 host, with a working example of packaging libcamera-apps for Alpine Linux for an armv7 device (a Raspberry Pi Zero) and armv8 (Raspberry Pi Zero 2).

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.

Understanding OPELThe National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom uses the Operational Pressures Escalation Levels (OPEL) system to monitor and manage the pressure on its services.

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.