At Oddschecker we use Gitlab to manage our source control and CI/CD processes. Props to Gitlab, its a great tool. Gitlab comes with a bunch of nice features that aren’t necessarily enabled out-of-the-box but are nonetheless very useful to have. One of the features is Git LFS support. LFS stands…

Terraform is a wonderful tool that allows you to safely and predictably create, change and improve infrastructure. It can be used across the majority of cloud vendors in a declarative way, meaning that you can use the same HCL to create your cloud resources anywhere you wish. …

Database schema changes need to be managed carefully. Rolling out updates without fully understanding the ramifications can be catastrophic especially if, for example, a table has been nominated for “the drop”. The team over at Liquibase have provided a wonderful Database versioning tool that can be used to help make…

AWS Cognito is a great tool that provides quick and simple user management for your website or mobile application. You can sign up users, send confirmation codes, add users to groups with specific permissions. The list goes on! One downside to using Cognito is the use-case where you need to…

High availability. Its one of those non-functional requirements that always causes a headache. Let’s be honest. Unless there is something intrinsic within a cloud offering that provides it, you have to really think on your feet. AWS Dynamo Tables previously were one of those headaches. In one scenario, you may…