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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

19th

Jan

2025

The Challenges of Estimating Software

by James Ridgway

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.Read More

10th

Dec

2024

Reflections from my first panel talk

by Mai Mai Steele

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of joining a panel discussion at Marmadukes, held by the Casla team – Richard Costello, Millie and Saskia, alongside Chris Cotterill, Marketing Director from Tribepad and Claire O’Toole, B2B Marketing Manager from Westfield Health. Read More

10th

Dec

2024

Adapting, Growing, and Thriving: Reflections from My First Panel Talk

by Mai Mai Steele

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of joining a panel discussion at Marmadukes, held by the Casla team – Richard Costello, Millie and Saskia, alongside Chris Cotterill, Marketing Director from Tribepad and Claire O’Toole, B2B Marketing Manager from Westfield Health.Read More

20th

Nov

2024

The Curve’s inaugural Event – Learnings & Takeaways

by Jake Appleyard

First of all, a massive thank you to everyone who attended our event on the transformative power of IoT, we were thrilled to see so many familiar faces and new ones eager to dive into the world of IoT. Read More

14th

Nov

2024

The IoT Gadgets

by Paul Ridgway

In this post we take a quick look at the gadgets featured during The Curve’s demo at our first in-person event that we hosted the other week as well as a few of the considerations that went into the design, build and software. Read More

IoT

12th

Nov

2024

Understanding HubSpot’s API and its uses

by Jake Appleyard

What is the HubSpot API? HubSpot provides a standard REST API as well as webhooks. The webhooks allow the custom integration to be notified of changes from HubSpot efficiently without the need for polling the API, whilst the API allows the integration to create, read and modify the data in HubSpot.Read More

API

28th

Oct

2024

Total Cost of Ownership in IoT

by 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.Read More

IoT

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