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Starting out with data puddles, then we’ll think about data lakes
Starting out with data puddles, then we’ll think about data lakes
Comic Relief is re-thinking its data ingestion, storage and query stack with Lambda, S3 & Athena. Here is a quick intro to how we are…
Adam Clark
Jan 31, 2020
Migrating from a conventional CMS to a decoupled technology stack!
Migrating from a conventional CMS to a decoupled technology stack!
How we migrated the main Comic Relief site over a 5 month period from Drupal 8 to a headless CMS and a more modern software stack (aka…
Gustavo Liedke
Jan 28, 2020
Bringing our Comic Relief Values to life with IoT and Serverless
Bringing our Comic Relief Values to life with IoT and Serverless
Seven values, from “Break down Barriers”, to “Have a sense of humour, always”, together with a wish from our director Charlotte to bring…
Peter Vanhee
Dec 6, 2019
How we made our Serverless payments platform CMS driven
How we made our Serverless payments platform CMS driven
A deep dive into how we made our payments platform CMS driven while maintaining the ability to happily scale to 300 donations per second
Adam Clark
Jul 29, 2019
Organising productive hackdays — how to make the most of your hackathons
Organising productive hackdays — how to make the most of your hacka...
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Caroline Rennie
Mar 8, 2018
Our approach on ‘Automated’ regression testing
Our approach on ‘Automated’ regression testing
Recently we reviewed our current approach for automated regression testing for one of our products here at Comic Relief. In this post I…
Comic Relief Engineering
Aug 21, 2017
Pattern Lab — the beauty of a shared styling library
Pattern Lab — the beauty of a shared styling library
For those who aren’t familiar with the concept of Pattern-Lab (or a Pattern Library), it’s essentially a living style guide; a common tool…
Comic Relief Engineering
Jul 17, 2017
Drupal 8 and Composer can be friends
Drupal 8 and Composer can be friends
10 years ago (at the end of 2006), Drush appeared to make it easy for Drupal developers to do some common tasks, it wasn’t immediately…
Comic Relief Engineering
May 17, 2017
Our first Redis Nose Day
Our first Redis Nose Day
We changed a few of the services that support our apps for Red Nose Day giving pages before the big day this year.
Comic Relief Engineering
Apr 3, 2017
The Journey to 90% Serverless at Comic Relief
The Journey to 90% Serverless at Comic Relief
The 90% figure is plucked out of thin air — it’s just me trying to pick a really big number without accurately calculating a percentage
Adam Clark
Mar 21, 2019
Load testing Serverless with Serverless at Comic Relief
Load testing Serverless with Serverless at Comic Relief
How we load test our Serverless applications (and legacy applications) using Serverless Artillery in the lead up to Red Nose Day 2019
Adam Clark
Mar 25, 2019
Monitoring & Debugging Serverless Applications for Red Nose Day 2019
Monitoring & Debugging Serverless Applications for Red Nose Day 2019
How we debug, the methodology and the tools that we use to debug our Serverless infrastructure.
Adam Clark
Mar 28, 2019
PHP at Comic Relief
PHP at Comic Relief
I’m a little late in writing down some thoughts from my Friday at PHP Conference 2016. Fortunately, the delay has given me, even more, to…
Comic Relief Engineering
May 12, 2016
Video Backgrounds
Video Backgrounds
A breakdown of our video background implementation on our events page which began as an experiment this campaign to provide something more…
Comic Relief Engineering
Feb 22, 2016
Building rednoseday.com on Drupal 8
Building rednoseday.com on Drupal 8
As part of our objectives in 2016, we set out to solve a recurring problem at Comic Relief: how can we build an engaging, fast and secure…
Peter Vanhee
Dec 21, 2016
Headless Testing with PhantomJS and CasperJS
Headless Testing with PhantomJS and CasperJS
How to use a headless browser with PhantomJS and CasperJS to test your application
Comic Relief Engineering
Sep 11, 2015
Drupalcon Baltimore talk & slides
Drupalcon Baltimore talk & slides
Two weeks ago, I presented our story of rebuilding rednoseday.com on Drupal 8 at DrupalCon Baltimore, Drupal’s largest gathering with an…
Peter Vanhee
May 14, 2017
Serverless at Comic Relief
Serverless at Comic Relief
It has been over a year since we first embarked on our serverless journey at Comic Relief, and our functions have been happily running in…
Peter Vanhee
Jul 12, 2018
Pipelines everywhere
Pipelines everywhere
Continuously delivering software to production systems is a key part of building great digital products and creating a culture of agility…
Peter Vanhee
Jan 31, 2019
Our takeaways from AWS re:Invent
Our takeaways from AWS re:Invent
Although AWS re:Invent 2018 is now over, the announcements will have a wide-ranging effect on how we build our products over the coming…
Adam Clark
Dec 4, 2018
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