From new products & features to technical deep dives, we cover it all in this article — I always love it when a tech company has a week dedicated to new announcements, after all, who doesn’t like hearing about the new toys on offer? Amazon usually announces a lot of interesting things at its annual re:Invent conference, and Cloudflare just had its developer week. As the name…

Improve your SEO ranking too, with rapidly improved page speed — Are you thinking of creating a new content site or blog, but tentative about ongoing fees for hosting your website? What if I told you, you could dip your toes in the water without any monthly fees? Hosting your websites on the internet can be expensive, especially if you have…

Learn to use Cloudflare’s Redis-like storage in your workers, with generous usage limits for free accounts — This is part 2 of a series of articles on Cloudflare workers, check out the other articles here: Step 1: Create and Host APIs For Free Using Cloudflare Workers Step 2: How To Easily Persist Data Within Cloudflare Workers Using KV In the last article, we created a simple API…

Get your API up and running in minutes, with up to 100,000 free requests per day — How often have you had to deploy a project, such as an API, and been bogged down with working out how to get it up and running in AWS or quickly hit the free tier limit on your account? That happened to me when I was working on a bot…

How do you weigh up competing and conflicting priorities? — Every time a new project comes along, there’s usually two main questions asked of an engineering team: How can we do this? When can you deliver it? They are both directly related, as what you decide to build to complete the project will determine how long it will take to…

There’s something for every engineer amongst these five amazing books — With the number of books targeting engineers always increasing, it can be a difficult task to pick a book to read. I’m an avid reader of technical books, as I find there are lessons in each and every one. However, not all books are created equal. It’s nice to get…

Conducting some simple benchmarks produced some surprising results — A few days ago, I wanted to have a go at building a website that was entirely powered on the frontend by WebAssembly. The easiest way of doing that today, in my opinion, is using Microsoft’s Blazor. In essence, you can write C# code where you’d previously use JavaScript, and…

Automate your developer workflow, all from within GitHub — GitHub Actions were made available to every user on GitHub in 2020, so they are still relatively new. Did you know you have 2,000 free minutes available every month to use for your private repositories? Better yet, public repositories receive unlimited minutes at no cost. You don’t even need to…