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Selected articles about software development, cloud computing, DevOps and more.

Using AWS DMS to Depersonalise Sensitive Data

AWS DMS is primarily associated with migrations from on-premise to the cloud or between different cloud providers, but as of April 2025 it now includes the ability to mask sensitive data

September 12th, 2025

A Custom Jest Environment for Integration Tests

Using a custom Jest environment with test containers for out-of-process dependencies enables realistic, isolated tests, consistent setup, cleaner configuration, and faster feedback.

May 15th, 2025

How to Import AWS Lambda Functions to Terraform

Sometimes cloud resources are provisioned manually or by other some means and we need to bring them under the control of an infrastructure as code management tool like Terraform

February 27th, 2023

A CI/CD Pipeline using CodeBuild, RDS and Route53

An AWS CI/CD Pipeline to automate updates with a robust, quality-controlled deployment workflow

August 9th, 2022

Native Modules with Expo Config Plugins: Part 2

After years spent shackled to the Expo SDK, React Native developers now have the power of choice thanks to config plugins

July 27th, 2022

Jemalloc and Rails on Amazon Linux

A dive into jemalloc, the memory allocator which can massively reduce memory consumption of Ruby workloads

June 8th, 2022

Native Modules with Expo Config Plugins: Part 1

After years spent shackled to the Expo SDK, React Native developers now have the power of choice thanks to config plugins

May 11th, 2022

Easier Cron Jobs on AWS

Running scheduled jobs on the cloud can be a challenge, but AWS EventBridge is a great solution

April 25th, 2022

Querying Firebase Analytics Data

It turns out there's an easy way to query Firebase Analytics data for projects too small for BigQuery

March 23rd, 2022

Comparing Next.js and Gatsby's Handling of Data

Next.js and Gatsby make server-side rendering and SEO easier than ever, but how do the two differ?

February 8th, 2022

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