Category: Technology

  • Blog Rewrite (V2)

    Blog Rewrite (V2)

    Three years after my last rewrite of this blog, and having run my WordPress-based food site for two years, it was once again time to tackle my personal blog. The ease at which I could update my recipes and the power WordPress gave, combined with the basically-zero running costs of its serverless & static nature…

  • Serverless Static WordPress

    Serverless Static WordPress

    Getting the power of WordPress CMS without the costs of hosting with Serverless Static WordPress.

  • Blog rewrite

    I’ve been meaning to do something about this for a while, so I’ve picked up Vercel, Next.js and MDX.

  • Using AWS Fargate to improve lead times and quality

    Using AWS Fargate to improve lead times and quality

    For those who missed the AWS User Group UK meetup in London last night, I spoke with my collegue Kouros about what we’ve been up to at The Times and how we’ve used AWS Fargate to help bring us some cool goodies whilst we develop.

  • Upcoming Meetup: Using AWS Fargate to improve lead times and quality

    Next week I’ll be copresenting a talk at the AWS User Group UK Meetup with my collegue Kouros. We’re going to be talking about our use of AWS Fargate to help power The Times website.

  • React Native & GraphQL: Hard, but AWESOME!

    React Native & GraphQL: Hard, but AWESOME!

    In early December 2018 whilst I was out in Sofia I gave a talk to a meetup held at Questers around some of the tech stack I’m now involved with at News UK.

  • Everything Serverless Podcast

    Everything Serverless Podcast

    I had a great chat with Edd Mann on the Three Devs and a Maybe podcast about Serverless, AWS and about how constraints in software development can be a good thing.

  • Symfony UK Talk

    Symfony UK Talk

    For anyone who missed the Symfony UK meetup in London tonight, I spoke about getting started with Serverless PHP.

  • Getting started with PHP serverless

    Getting started with PHP serverless

    As a full-time PHP developer that’s been following the serverless movement for quite some time, I’ve been stuck without an outlet to take advantage of Functions as a Service (FaaS).