In the age of social media more than ever, marketing teams are turning to influencers to advertise their new, innovative products or services. The number of followers, impressions and engagements all impact traffic, which in turn helps drive one very important metric - sales. This…

Many businesses have a dedicated software engineering department, whether to maintain a website or develop apps. The majority of these departments will perform code reviews as part of their daily routine. But what’s the difference between a negative experience and a constructive…

When growing a business from a startup to a large enterprise, it's software systems also expand in complexity, meaning that encountering incidents is inevitable. These incidents have indirect costs that can include loss of trust in the product or brand. However, incidents occurring…

The popular messaging service Slack recently experienced a global outage which impacted millions of users, the majority of which were individuals working from home or remote learning due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The outage lasted for an extended period, potentially impacting their…

Business landscapes around the world are constantly evolving with every organisation clambering to innovate so that they can better react to the changing conditions in which they exist and uncover new opportunities to help them to drive their growth and profits. However, in a world…

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a key-based object storage cloud service with 99.999999999% (11 9s) of durability across multiple availability zones. It is infinitely scalable with a maximum individual object size of 5TB, and a maximum single upload size of 5GB. Amazon…

Firecracker is a Virtual Machine Monitor, written in Rust that Amazon Web Services use to power it's Serverless Compute services - Lambda and Fargate. Firecracker makes use of Linux's Kernel-based Virtual Machine virtualisation infrastructure to provide its products with MicroVMs…