Using a Bastion or gateway host can be one of the quickest security measures that you can use to reduce the attach surface of resources running within your cloud environment. The idea of a Bastion host is fairly simple. A Bastion host is used to allow operational or internal access to resources within your cloud … Read more
Setting up an Arduino build process, with multiple targets/configurations using GitHub Actions for stable and reproducible builds.
When COVID struck and everyone went into lock down, a lot of businesses had to change how they worked to adjust to a new life of working from home. At The Curve we were fortunate that little changed in the transition to home working. For a lot of businesses there are one or more critical … Read more
Our Business Development Director, Melise Jones, reflects on what it means to be a woman in tech. Before Women in Tech there were, well, women in tech… I never thought there was anything special or remarkable about the fact that I had entered a field dominated by fellas. The feeling was comparable to when I … Read more
We believe in delivering high quality software for our clients, so it probably comes as no surprise that we subscribe ourselves to numerous best practices such as test driven development, and we adopt a strong testing culture. On one project, we started getting a very cryptic error message when we ran the test suite: Frustratingly, … Read more
We’re all been there, we’ve had to set a password in a system and we’ve been told it’s not strong enough. Or we finally set a strong password only to be told 30 days later that we need to change our password. Password policies aren’t enough to encourage good security behaviour. A password policy enforces … Read more
Back in March, our team at The Curve responded to the challenges and uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. We pulled together to do what we could to help one another out, both personally and professionally. During those early days of the crisis, we launched In It Together – a community project meant to … Read more
These are uncertain times, and we’re adapting the way that we operate to support businesses and communities.
Effective immediately we at The Curve are announcing that we will work for any business that is driving social benefit, change, tackling the global challenge or similar for no more than cost.
We are working with a number of organisations at no cost to bring out services that we believe will support the community at large.
A Sheffield based software development and technology consultancy, has moved in to its first office – located at OXO House in Sheffield – following unprecedented demand for its services after one year in business. The new 1,900 sq ft office space, located in the heart of Sheffield beside the River Don, will house the firms … Read more
Last night Paul and I were speaking at Sheffield DevOps about the journey to serverless and how you can run an entire Rails app without a server!
