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Understanding WebTransport and Its Advantages Over WebSockets in the IoT Landscape
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.
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June 2024

Tour de Curve – Challenge Completed!
This year, as part of The Curve’s charity fundraiser for Cavendish Cancer Care, Paul and Andrew decided to really push themselves and take on a serious challenge.
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June 2024
Understanding the Cold Start Problem with AWS Lambda
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.
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May 2024

Melise Jones – Signing Off & Going Out on a High
Our Client Services Director, Melise Jones, reflects on her career – especially her time at The Curve.
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March 2024
Building for ARM with Docker – packaging libcamera-apps for Alpine on armv7
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).
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January 2024
What we’ve learned from processing £100k+ of transactions every week
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.
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January 2024
Demystifying Agile Software Development
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.
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January 2024
Determining NHS Room Occupancy Levels Through The Use of IoT Devices and Computer Vision
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) has expanded its valuable and successful collaboration with The Curve. Their goal is to explore new and innovative ways to manage data more effectively and ensure real-time data is at the forefront of its decision making process.
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January 2024
The Curve has appointed Mai Mai Steele as Chief Operating Officer
Mai Mai Steele joins The Curve as Chief Operating Officer
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December 2023
Trusts in Transition: Navigating Year-Round Pressures and Embracing Data Within The NHS
We thoroughly enjoyed our time at the NHS Executive Strategy Summit in London last week. It was a great opportunity to understand the key challenges that many Trusts and wider NHS Organisations are facing, and it was insightful to hear from inspiring thought leaders within the industry about how they are currently tackling these challenges.
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November 2023

