Now with major changes in regulations, it has become even more important that personal data is secured and only seen by the right people. …

Originally posted on my blogging website here. Last week, I had the honour of being a guest of AWS for a Riot Games Valorant Championships experience in Los Angeles. I find the game tech sector extremely interesting, as a lot of advances in technology and innovation have originated from game…

As part of the AWS Community builder Program I have been selected to be a guest of Amazons at the Riot Games Valorant Championships In LA at the end of August. …

This week, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the Athena Program, a women’s leadership workshop led by the inspirational Sandra Lee and hosted by Allstate Northern Ireland and Women In Tech. Named after the Greek goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, justice, strength, strategy, and skill — it is the…

As your project grows and user base expands, scaling up your compute resources becomes essential. In this blog I will explore the process of resizing AWS EC2 instances without incurring downtime and discuss some considerations to ensure a seamless transition. Real world walkthrough When scaling your infrastructure, it is important to regularly evaluate…

Accessing Private Files When building media rich applications, that handle assets like images, audio or video — some of these assets may be publicly available, while some might be stored privately and only accessible by specific users. If you are familiar with AWS, you may have come across AWS S3. Which is Amazon’s…

Recently I have been working on a React app and have started adding end-to-end (E2E) tests using Cypress.io. Cypress is super powerful and really nice for writing automated tests. I was able to get it up and running pretty quickly and write several different test specs for various user scenarios. …

This is my second time returning to AWS re:invent. Last year I was fortunate enough to receive the All Builders Welcome grant to attend, which was provided by the AWS DE&I team aimed at individuals within their first 5 years of their careers. …

Another reinvent has come and gone and what a week it has been! With 6 hotels, 65,000+ attendees and over 3000 sessions, it can be hard to navigate the amount of content generated throughout the week. Over the span of the 5 days, I attended a number of different talks…