Mike Elsmore - Blog

If you're old enough to remember Internet Explorer, CSS shim files, and spending way too much time on Newgrounds, first off—how are your knees these days?

In our previous post on Developer Experience, we touched on documentation being one of the core pillars of great DX.

If you've been anywhere near web development Twitter (or X, or Bluesky, or whatever we're calling it this week) in the last few days, you've probably seen the news: Cloudflare has acquired The Astro Technology Company.

Here at DigitalSpeed we are active users of AI within our day to day, a lot of us enjoy using Claude Code as part of our tool chain and we even use Spec Kit within some projects, and we can see how it has improved our pace and work.

I've been playing with this thing recently called Dapr (you can blame @marcduiker for me finding out about the project).

I'm an exceedingly lucky person, over the years I've had the opportunity to attend and speak at (including very last minute) multiple DevTalks events.

Over the last little while in my career, I’ve been either involved in building or building SDKs, especially here at Infobip with the huge array of tools we have on offer.

I live in a city with a rich culture, history, and a thriving technology scene.

I’m a very lucky person, I’ve been invited to speak in the capital city of the home of Dracula, yes you guessed it!

So this article makes a little more sense, let me introduce myself; Hi, I’m Mike, long-time listener first-time caller.

This blog is going to cover running CloudQuery in CircleCI as part of your continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline.

Back in mid-2020 AWS Security Hub released a new security standard called AWS Foundational Security Best Practices.

Policy is a very broad term and in this blog we’ll be explaining what policies are, how we implement them at CloudQuery, and how you can use this in the security & compliance of your applications.

AWS SSO and AWS Organization were released around 2017 and are probably the best way to manage AWS access at scale.

I’ve spent most of my career as an application/web developer, so primarily glueing X to Y to do a thing that I love doing!

I'm really happy to say I've started a new job at Optic, and with this comes the learning process of getting more depth with new technology and its use cases.

It seems I should apologise, a few months ago I wrote a post about 2016 being the last Hackference.

Using Compose’s MySQL service & IBM Bluemix to run your blog MySQL is a hugely popular database.

For the last four years I’ve been developing and running an event in Birmingham, UK called Hackference.