From Legacy to Containers: Transforming Project Infrastructure
In today's rapidly evolving software development landscape, maintaining secure, consistent, and easily manageable infrastructure environments is crucial. In our recent initiative, we took over a client's project previously developed and managed by another vendor. Our…
Top 10 Tech Events in London in May 2025
As London springs into May, the city once again becomes a hive of innovation, technology, and thought leadership. From APIs to AI, service desks to software design, this month’s line-up of events includes some of…
Heroku Ruby Migration In Less Than 2 Weeks
Migrating legacy systems to contemporary stacks is an inevitability for CTOs and technically inclined CEOs managing scalable operations. Beyond simply maintaining security updates, these upgrades offer strategic opportunities for application modernisation, performance optimisation, and infrastructure…
Vector Databases Without the Fluff
What Is a Vector?A vector is a numerical representation of an object. For instance, a two-dimensional vector could look like (2, -3). You can imagine it as a line segment from the origin (0, 0)…
Are Software Developers Becoming Obsolete? Welcome to the Future Powered by OpenAI Agents
Imagine a software developer who never tires, writes flawless code, debugs instantly, and deploys seamlessly. Now picture hundreds working simultaneously. This isn't science fiction—it's the new reality offered by OpenAI's revolutionary AI agents, transforming the…
Dependency Roulette: How One Tiny Update Took Down Production
Third-party dependencies are a double-edged sword—convenient until they suddenly break everything. Here’s a real-world incident from our collection that perfectly illustrates this risk.The Setup: How We Managed Python DependenciesWe use the pretty standard and simple…
Cryptominer Alert: How a Student Exploited a Lab Environment
In today’s digital age, many educational institutions rely on innovative platforms to make hands-on learning more accessible. A client providing a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for educational purposes faced an unexpected challenge. Their…
Are AI-powered Tools Replacing Developers?
As OpenAI works to enhance ChatGPT, adding new functionalities and capabilities with each iteration, other large language models (LLMs) are springing up. Many are hot on the heels of ChatGPT, striving to revolutionise various industries.…
The Case of the Disappearing Files in AWS Lambda
Ah, the joys of cloud computing! Our FinTech project, bustling with activity, had us working extensively with files on AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage. From PDFs containing insurance information to ancient fixed-length formats from…
Frameworks: Choose the Right Tools and Use Them Wisely
When selecting a technology stack for a new project, we all look for frameworks and libraries that can speed up delivery and simplify our lives. Sometimes, in our eagerness to streamline things, we overlook the…