How To Ask For Help
Helping other people to help you by asking the right questions in the right place in the right way
The Hard Truths of Modernising Legacy Applications: Costs, Complexities, and Cloud-Native Benefits
Insights into the real-world challenges engineers and organisations face during legacy application modernisation, based on my hands-on experience across multiple modernisation projects
Prompt Driven Development What I learnt vibe coding for a real project in the real world
A guide to programming in the age of AI and LLM assistance
Is your company ready for AI?
As a consultancy, we are expected to have strong and well-formed opinions on all new technologies arriving on the market. So we often get asked, “What should I be doing with AI? Should I be using it? What should I...
A Green Software Engineering Playbook A set of rules to ensure your applicaton build process is as sustainable as possible
Some actionable steps to improve your SDLC efficiency
Transparent borders for element states
It’s quite a common design requirement to have a border on some states of an element but not others. For example a set of tabs where the currently active tab is highlighted with a top border, or a button where...
Creating a Retrieval Augmented generative AI chatbot
I’ve said before that using the cloud feels to a certain age of developer like a kid in a sweet shop. Talking to a colleague of a similar age recently about how he wrote his own message bus in C,...
Accelerating AWS Native Development with LocalStack & Docker: A Real-World Case Study
Some of the benefits of using LocalStack to emulate AWS environments on a developer's local machine, based on real-world project experience.
Use Cases for AI
What should we be using AI for?
AWS Simple Email Service Security
Best practices for Secure Email Sending