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Scheduling time with friends and family is even more critical nowadays.

So, things look a little different around here.

In light of Youtube-DL being taken down from GitHub, I decided to give it a go with a use case I happened to have.

If you don't know already - I love performance.

Recently, I had a case where I needed to gain access to an RDS Instance that I had long since deleted.

Server-side developers often overlook the fact that they are not immune to considering user experience in the design of their systems.

For many, having a health check in your application may be somewhat of an afterthought.

As with all modern enterprise SaaS platforms, Koru has a mechanism to send data about a candidates results back to a clients ATS (Application Tracking system) or CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system.

It's no secret that microservices are the hotness right now (I won't say new at this point because they're fairly well established).

When I joined the Koru team, one of the biggest issues with our pipeline was the PDF generation system.

Domain migrations can be fairly simple things, change the CNAME and bobs your uncle.

Backwards compatibility is not something I see discussed much in tech circles.

Sharpening the saw is Habit 7 in the cringe inducing book entitled "7 Habits of Highly Effective People".

As part of my work to "sharpen the saw", I decided to spend some time improving the performance of various components in my setup.

After seeing the amazing posts by both Stephan Wolfram and Jess Frazelle, I wanted to chime in on my "personal infrastructure".

The Problem: It's fairly well documented how to use private NPM packages in a project that uses TravisCI, but what about the GitHub Package Registry?

Recently I stumbled upon an awesome page I hadn't seen before awesome pinned gists.

TL;DR Terraform stack is deployed via Travis using a script (below) Secrets are shared by storing an encrypted tar file in Git The tar is decrypted by TravisCI and another other team member using secret keys stored elsewhere Variable files and generated d…

Recently, we've wanted to add Gitleaks scanning into our repos to keep on top of any potential security issues.

Technology is so fast paced that to stay up to date, you need to be learning on a daily basis.

Recently, Koru had a penetration test done by an independent third party.

At my previous post at CloudCall, I was responsible for the SMS/IM backend.

Recently, I moved my website from a static HTML file on GitHub pages (yes actually static) and my blog from Medium.

Recently, I handed my notice in to my previous job at CloudCall after receiving an new offer at Capp&Co.

This is a story of changing requirements being impeded by architecture and software.

This guide assumes you already have a basic NodeJS API and a Graphite instance configured.

NTP is one of the most essential and complex systems that never gets spoken about.

Developers are like jackdaws — “oh shiny!”

With the shift to mobile and the statistics of the “younger” generation (hi there) not using phone calls as a means of communication, there is a constant push towards reaching people in a platform agnostic way — via email, LinkedIn, twitter DM, you name i…

Resiliency by design in your products architecture is a challenging problem that is rarely tested.

A picture taken from the November 2018 LeicesterJS meetup LeicesterJS is born out of the rise of Javascript now being the de facto programming language for a majority of developers.

The issue raised for the event-stream breach.

Giving the talk — credit https://twitter.com/JamieTanna/status/1029428095223320576 Glossophobia or fear of public speaking is cited as being amongst mankind’s top 10 fears.

Tech meetups and talks are a great way to get to know fellow developers in your locality.

“There is always an app for that” is a phrase I heard repeatedly when I was looking at something to keep tabs on my goals, both short and long-term.

Contributing to open source is often touted as a great way to be recognized in the software development community, with many heralding their Github profiles as a resumé of sorts.

Code review is a critical part of any software development process.

Photo by Cara Fuller on Unsplash On the web, speed is everything.

“Oh, not another recruiter!”

Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/fxAo3DiMICI Performance is a critical factor in site retention rates.

Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/Dl6jeyfihLk Ever since the smartphone arrived in our hands, people everywhere have been utterly entranced by them.

Pictured: The PHP developer in their natural state of silent contempt It’s an age-old joke to hate on PHP.

2017 was the year I tracked my finances.

Your boss has just got off the phone with a client who wants a bespoke social network site targeting a niche market.

Attending your first programming meetup can leave you a little apprehensive.

Make your Node app like this guy System breaches are now commonplace.

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