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

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…

Recently, in a side project I had my first interaction with containerised Lambdas. Reason being is that I’ve began working with a number of machine learning libraries and the dependencies started to become large. I did consider going down the EC2 route to deal with needing to use these large…

Over the last year at Hamilton Robson, we got a new business opportunity, to work with innovative tech to build a recruitment platform.​​ We identified several different user flows during our service design sessions and in this blog, I want to cover two of these scenarios and the different AWS…

Today is the last day that I am at re:invent and what an incredible week it has been! Today started off with the CTO keynote from Dr. Werner Vogels. …

Day 3 at the conference kicked off in a similar fashion to the previous days – coffee to fuel up for the first sessions in the morning! My first session of the day was delivered by David Press & Ashwin Raghuraman – “Riot Games at the edge: Launching Valorant with…