TL;DR; This blog post demonstrates opinionated End-to-End Mobile Testing on devices. It uses physical devices provided by Device Farm and integrates with CICD pipeline. You can clone the companion code , use and adapt it to build your own CICD Pipeline with End-to-End mobile device testing One day we were…

Developers love to code! And so do we. But there’s always something you hate in the job you love, isn’t it? Imagine, you have this great idea of a new feature for your app — your customers will really enjoy it, it’s a fantastic improvement! You start to code, and…

After migrating our eCommerce platform to the cloud with near zero downtime in our previous post, we started thinking about how we could take advantage of our new architecture to create a more customer-centric experience. In this blog, we will cover how we utilised machine learning (with almost no knowledge…

Java Migrations: The tale of eeny, meeny, miny, moe Last year, I wrote a blogpost about alternatives for migrating a Java Spring app onto the cloud using different kinds of AWS services. There was a new service called AWS App Runner which seemed to be the simplest way of deploying…

.NET based Single-Page Applications for real ? — TL;DR; this post details our first steps with Blazor WebAssembly. Recently, our .NET development team had to implement a new feature for an end-to-end handling the full stack. Our B2B Product Management team required a rich client-side interactive UI, but the frontend developers we used to work with were not…

In our last post, we’ve covered the containerization of our eCommerce platform based on Magento. We created a CDK template sample that deploys all the application stacks including the orchestration service, container images and the database instances. While our team was continuing to enhance it into a production ready deployment…

This post describes how to run serverless Java functions on AWS Lambda via a managed runtime, a custom runtime or as a container image and the motivation & considerations for each approach. Disclaimer I Love My Local Farmer is a fictional company inspired by customer interactions with AWS Solutions Architects. Any…

As part of our move to AWS, we started rethinking our eCommerce Magento stack. In this post, we will cover what architecture we choose to adopt, how we reach this decision and the highlights/lowlights. Disclaimer I Love My Local Farmer is a fictional company inspired by customer interactions with AWS Solutions…

How to host our .NET applications on AWS — TL;DR: this post details the decision trees we use to decide how to host our .NET applications on AWS depending on the use case. Disclaimer I Love My Local Farmer is a fictional company inspired by customer interactions with AWS Solutions Architects and AWS Developer Advocates. Any stories told in this…