Published in Moonpig Tech Blog·Feb 19Practice makes perfectAs software engineers we practice writing code almost daily, but we don’t often get to build or design whole new systems. However, a lot of the time, it’s easy for engineers to do what they already know, with the systems they are familiar with. With this in mind, Moonpig teams…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Published in Moonpig Tech Blog·Dec 28, 2022Re:Invent Moonpig editionEvery year at their annual developer conference, Re:Invent, AWS announces a whole range of new services and updates to existing services. At Moonpig this provides us with exciting new possibilities to simplify the code we run, offer us cheaper ways of operating on the cloud and the ability to provide…AWS5 min readAWS5 min read
Oct 20, 2022Using the Parameter Store Lambda ExtensionAWS recently released a new AWS Lambda Extension to allow you to easily manage and configure consuming Parameter Store and Secrets Manager values. Usually we’d have to use the SSM SDK to interact with the service, managing our own timeouts and cache expiries in the SDK itself. But with the…3 min read3 min read
Aug 18, 2022Distributed Coffee on AWSWe live in a world that is comprised of distributed, asynchronous actions. Almost every interaction in our daily lives is async in some way. We might start the day off asynchronously interacting with distributed breakfast services to make our coffee and toast. Then we’ll log onto your computers and check…AWS5 min readAWS5 min read
Published in Just Eat Takeaway-tech·Nov 1, 2021Optimising for the customerEvery decision we make while writing our software impacts somebody. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t write it. That’s why it’s important to know who your customer is and make sure you meet their requirements. Sometimes these requirements change. …AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Sep 17, 2021One Lambda, many languagesOften, as developers, we find ourselves in our comfort zone sticking to a formula that we know works. For me and my team, this tends to be .NET running on Lambda. …AWS Lambda4 min readAWS Lambda4 min read
