Developer, Technologist, Speaker, Community Organiser
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? But secondly, you probably remember Flash Player and Silverlight as being the way you watched video in web browsers. Those were the days of browser plugins, mysterious crashes, and that wonderful "Click to enable Flash" banner that haunted…
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 . The team behind one of the most interesting web frameworks to emerge in recent years is now part of the connectivity cloud giant. For those of us who've been building with Astro,…
In our previous post on Developer Experience , we touched on documentation being one of the core pillars of great DX. We mentioned treating your docs as a product rather than a necessary evil, and pointed towards the docs-as-code approach. But we didn't dive into the specifics of what to actually build your documentation with. So let's fix that. The Landscape There's no shortage of documentation…
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. But the velocity created by the tools we have to hand mean that everything is starting to feel a bit the same when integrating products together. So that’s the…
I've been playing with this thing recently called Dapr (you can blame @marcduiker for me finding out about the project). For those wondering what the heck Dapr is, you'd be right it does sound like it's dapper and means you need a fancy hat. But it's also a cool open-source project that is part of the CNCF , you can check out the GitHub to go and investigate. What it's great at is acting as a…
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. And I was exceedingly happy to be invited to both moderate and speak at the 11th edition in Bucharest between May 29th & 30th. If you'd like a full run-down of all the speakers, talks, and activities they had I'd check out the website…
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. And this leads me down a rabbit hole of wondering why organisations don’t build them by default once they reach a certain size if they follow an API-first design approach. I’ve actually given talks on this…
I live in a city with a rich culture, history, and a thriving technology scene. But oddly enough, we don’t have many tech conferences or big events for start-ups, developers, or even just enthusiasts. However, the amazing team at TechMids are changing that. They’re a lovely organisation helping to support a whole bunch of meetups, and they’re running conferences 😱 And…
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! I was invited to give a talk at the 6 th edition of DevTalks in Cluj, Transylvania. I’ve spoken at the event a couple of times before, but for some reason, I just haven’t gone for the last few years. DevTalks is one of the premier generalist developer events…
So this article makes a little more sense, let me introduce myself; Hi, I’m Mike, long-time listener first-time caller. I’m a new member of the Developer Relations team here at Infobip, and I’m still learning all the ropes. But, one of my first big things has been to travel with my colleagues to Prague to attend DevRelCon in Prague! The full line-up and details can be found at…
This blog is going to cover running CloudQuery in CircleCI as part of your continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline. We all know how awesome a tool CloudQuery is, with a bit of configuration you very quickly get access to the cloudquery fetch command to get information on your cloud assets, and then you can start running cloudquery policy run <policy> against that to get amazing…
Back in mid-2020 AWS Security Hub released a new security standard called AWS Foundational Security Best Practices. This new standard sets security controls to detect when an AWS account or deployed resources don’t match up to the best practices set out by the AWS security experts. The complete standard can be found in the AWS Security Hub documentation . As with any security guidelines, factors…
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. We have a good definition of what a policy is within our documentation , and it reads as so Policy compliance is a broad term and can refer to any kind of policy, from internal standards to regulatory…
AWS SSO and AWS Organization were released around 2017 and are probably the best way to manage AWS access at scale. "AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) is a cloud SSO service that makes it easy to centrally manage SSO access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications. It enables users to sign in to an AWS IAM user with their existing corporate credentials and access all of their assigned accounts…
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! And my exposure to operating through DevOps has been through the lens of an application developer. I’ve recently joined CloudQuery , which is an open-source cloud asset inventory powered by SQL. What this means is that I’m learning more about infrastructure than I’ve ever done…
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. So let's start with the tagline for Optic, what does "Git for APIs" mean? And why should builders of APIs care? Before we describe why Optic is the Git for APIs it'll probably be good to cover what Optic is and what problem it's trying to…
It seems I should apologise, a few months ago I wrote a post about 2016 being the last Hackference . And I’m glad to say I was very wrong! https://medium.com/media/04c5f2110b7225d89d83dd6391fd00c2/href I’d like to announce that Hackference will once again be taking place in 2017 in its usual format of a single-day conference with a full weekend hackathon. And even better it’s being done with the…
Using Compose’s MySQL service & IBM Bluemix to run your blog MySQL is a hugely popular database . Not only is it the cornerstone of a massively-relied-on development stack ( LAMP ), but it also backs a huge amount of open source systems on alternative stacks. Meme credit: Moz All or nothing The internet is full of blogs or, more precisely, full of people using blogging software to build other…
For the last four years I’ve been developing and running an event in Birmingham, UK called Hackference. The event has always been a single day conference followed by a weekend hackathon, and I’m really proud to say that I stole heavily from hacked.io (run by Melinda Seckington , Cristiano Betta , Kevin S Prince and Robert Lee-Cann ) as well as Kings of Code 2013 (ran by Sam Wierema ). I should…