We are excited to announce Serverless Framework Compose: a new feature enabling you to deploy multiple services in one command, in parallel, or ordered by dependencies!
20 Apr 2022
19 Apr 2022
The environment in SwiftUI is sort of like a global dictionary but with stronger types: each key (represented by a key path) can have its own specific value type. For example, the \.isEnabled key stores a boolean value, whereas the \.font key stores an Optional<Font>. I wrote a custom dictionary type that can do the same thing. The HeterogeneousDictionary struct…
Cold starts and other issues engineers new to Serverless hear about are not the problem you may think they are. Anna explains why and even how to mitigate them.
I’m a backend developer who worked extensively writing code in Golang before joining SoundCloud. SoundCloud mostly uses Scala for its…
18 Apr 2022
Get your own web app up and running in about 15 minutes. You'll only need a basic understanding of AWS Lambda and some proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript.
16 Apr 2022
I’ve been keeping an eye on MAUI – the .NET Multi-platform App UI – for a while, but I’ve only recently actually given it a try. MAUI is essentially the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, embracing WinUI 3 and expanding from a mobile focus to desktop apps as well. It’s still in preview at the time of … Continue reading Taking .NET…
15 Apr 2022
This release’s biggest feature is the GOAMD64 support.
14 Apr 2022
How to decide whether or not a third party payment processor is a good fit.
Find out all about the future of wearable payment technology.
Find out what payment reversals are and how you can prevent them.
What are payment delays and how can you deal with them? Find out here.
Find out all you need to know about ecommerce payment gateways.
Does it feel like the cybersecurity landscape keeps changing beneath your feet? In the past two years, we’ve witnessed the definition of cybersecurity risks evolve and new types of security threats emerge. If you were to list out today’s top cybersecurity threats, it would likely look different that it did before the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s […] The post The Top…
13 Apr 2022
Meg Barron, VP of Digital Health Strategy at the AMA, talks about what’s next for virtual care and the healthcare industry.
We’re pleased to announce that we have partnered with Center for Humane Tech, a nonprofit organization that radically reimagines the digital infrastructure. Its mission is to drive a comprehensive shift toward humane technology that supports the collective well-being, democracy and shared information environment. The post Mozilla partners with the Center for Humane Technology appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the…
Discover some of the best sales forecasting methods.
Discover top tips for creating the professional landscaping invoices.
Discover the pros and cons of implementing a location pricing strategy.
Find out how to get the most out of your automated accounting software.
Invoice accrual creates more accurate financial statements.
Goodhart’s law famously says: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Although originally from economics, it’s something we have to grapple with at OpenAI when figuring out how to optimize objectives that are difficult or costly to measure.
It’s always DNS . . . except when it’s not: A deep dive through gRPC, Kubernetes, and AWS networking
DatadogThe story of a seemingly simple issue that led us into the hidden complexities of gRPC, DNS, and Kubernetes.
12 Apr 2022
GoCardless and Plum answer your VRP questions
Create your own geoportal with a custom map, your own data, a map legend, a place-name search, a satellite view of a selected building, and a street view.
11 Apr 2022
Performance is an essential aspect of any production application, and GitHub is no exception. In the last year, we’ve been making significant investments to improve the performance of some of our most critical workflows. There’s a lot to share, but today we’re going to focus on a little-known feature of some Rack-powered web servers called rack.after_reply that saved us 30ms…
Going the Extra Mile with Our k8s Setup Photo by Conny Schneider on Unsplash ; The Kubernetes logo is a registered trademark of the Linux Foundation As part of Xandr’s long-term effort to migrate our core engines from a mixture of virtual machines (VM) and bare-metal servers to the new world of Kubernetes (k8s), my team has been charged with…
Find the answer to “how do automatic payments work?” here.
Discover what to consider with credit card data storage systems.
Improve cash flow with a monthly retainer invoice.
How do retainer contracts work and what are their benefits?
Learn how to apply SaaS usage based pricing.
Discover how DeliveryApp will use GoCardless to transform payments
8 Apr 2022
Recently, we introduced Background Art as a new way for customers to add graphics to their websites. This feature leverages WebGL to generate abstract animated graphics client side. These graphics can be seamlessly added to a web page, offering an alternative to images and videos for section backgrounds.
We needed more than a day for IWD 2022. Find out about our month of celebration.
7 Apr 2022
What is a profit model, and how can you create one?
Find out all about credit control and whether it’s right for your business.
Discover how to create a consolidated invoice.
Discover the pros and cons of monthly vs annual subscriptions.
We show you how to send a quote easily using our template
How to reduce checkout abandonment by looking at the reasons behind it
We explore how to incorporate subscription services into your business model.
6 Apr 2022
If you've been keeping up with my series of tutorials around .NET Core and MongoDB, you'll likely remember that we explored using the Find operator to query for documents as well as an aggregation pip... The post Using LINQ to Query MongoDB in a .NET Core Application appeared first on MongoDB.
Wave is a $1.7B company with 70 engineers1 whose product is a CRUD app that adds and subtracts numbers. In keeping with this, our architecture is a standard CRUD app architecture, a Python monolith on top of Postgres. Starting with a simple architecture and solving problems in simple ways where possible has allowed us to scale to this size while…
AWS just released a brand new feature called "Lambda Function URLs", and we are happy to announce that Serverless Framework supports Lambda Function URLs immediately.
5 Apr 2022
At Slack, the goal of the Mobile Developer Experience Team (DevXp) is to empower developers to ship code with confidence while enjoying a pleasant and productive engineering experience. We use metrics and surveys to measure productivity and developer experience, such as developer sentiment, CI stability, time to merge (TTM), and test failure rate. The DevXp…
From planning and tracking our work on GitHub Issues to using GitHub Discussions to gather your feedback and running our developer environments in Codespaces, we pride ourselves on using GitHub to build GitHub, and we love sharing how we use our own products in the hopes it’ll inspire new ways for you and your teams to use them. Even before…
Every once in a while I learn about a JavaScript property that I wish I had known about years earlier — valueAsNumber is one of them. The valueAsNumber provides the value of an input[type=number] as a Number type, instead of the traditional string representation when you get the value: This property allows us to avoid parseInt/parseFloat, but one gotcha with…
4 Apr 2022
Find out how to set up automatic payments here.
Find out about the best dropshipping payment gateways here.
Read up on online payment fraud prevention techniques here.
Discover the most popular UK online payment methods.
Could landlord rent tracking software be useful for your business?
Web apps are accepting numerous types of inputs, from basic text to code to imagery, files, and more. It’s important that we validate the contents we receive but if you do allow arbitrary text, it’s good to know what exactly has been submitted so you can present it properly. Enter the Code Detection API — an API that allows you…
3 Apr 2022
2 Apr 2022
Yes, you read that correctly – “Dynamic Pinvoke” as in “Dynamic Platform Invoke” Background Recently, I was browsing through Microsoft documentation and other blogs to gain a better understanding of .NET dynamic types and objects. I’ve always found the topic very interesting mainly due to its relative obscurity and the offensive opportunities for defensive evasion. […]
1 Apr 2022
Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model architecture has taken the deep-learning world by storm. Initially introduced for machine translation, it has become the tool of choice for a wide range of domains, including text, audio, video, and others. Transformers have also driven most of the massive increases in model scale…
Learn how to create a seamless payment experience for customers.
Find ecommerce subscription software to grow your business.
The Chargebee integrations you need to be using
Cash flow forecasts in Xero explained
Everything you need to know about how and why to offer customers split payments
How to use the HMRC bad debt relief scheme to reclaim VAT on unpaid invoices.
The buy now pay later industry is expected to be worth over £127 billion by 2023
What does an escrow service company do? Find out more.
Find out what to look for in a virtual terminal for payments.
Read more on the differences between expense and expenditure on GoCardless.
Most UK companies will use the UK GAAP FRS 102 accounting standard
Discover how to increase net profit margin in business.
Where does your business stack up? Find out here.
It’s April Cools! We’re taking back April Fools. When I was younger I had a strange relationship with alcohol, not because of any sort of trauma, but because I found it decidedly boring and disgusting to the taste. I didn’t drink in high school, didn’t enjoy parties in college, and didn’t care for tailgating or other sports-based events where drinking…
Software engineering, knowledge work, or most broadly any type of white collar labor is, primarily, the production of our own psychology. Our mental capacity is our means of production. We embody the values of our work. Our identity is tightly bound up with our careers, knowledge, skills, methods, company, and our industry—we are our work. Having our identities bound to…
31 Mar 2022
Making the decision to come out is a deeply personal choice and journey. It is a process, and one in which no one person follows the same path in how they decide to share that aspect of themselves. In recognition of the Trans Day of Visibility, I wanted to share some of the thoughts and experiences I had while coming…
ShreyTheCray interviews Gareth McCumskey as he walks through the purpose, use cases, and process of getting started with the Serverless framework
30 Mar 2022
The April 2022 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we’re introducing a Pylint extension, a simpler way to create empty Python and Jupyter Notebook files, fixes for running and debugging files with conda environment and moving the interpreter display in the status bar to the right. The post Python in Visual…
In Firefox 98, we’re shipping a new version of the existing Performance panel. This panel is now based on the Firefox profiler tool that can be used to capture a performance profile for a web page, inspect visualized performance data and analyze it to identify slow areas. The post Performance Tool in Firefox DevTools Reloaded appeared first on Mozilla Hacks…
Discover the objectives of financial forecasting.
Should I offer payment in local currency? Find out here.
Discover cross-border selling and the common mistakes to avoid.
Discover the importance of 2FA and MFA when taking payments.
CVV codes and what they mean
BBC Online — A year with serverless Its been a little over a year since I published my last two blog posts, in which I outlined the process we went through to choose the technology for BBC online and the steps we took to optimise serverless for our use. Recently my colleague Graeme has published a blog post on the…
Choosing from various pre-defined map styles and customizing maps is much easier with the new Cloud UX and the refreshed map designer tool.
29 Mar 2022
What you need to know to build and run a profitable business.
Discover how Apple Pay works for business.
Discover how Google Pay works for business.
We explore the advantages and disadvantages of contactless payments.
Everything you need to know to choose a credit card machine for your business.
This has been a busy month for cyber attackers, and the Cisco Umbrella team – in conjunction with Cisco Talos – has observed several new threats for users to be aware of. In this month’s edition of the Cybersecurity Threat Spotlight, we discuss a wiper making its way through Ukraine, a dropper targeting India and […] The post HermeticWiper, SDUser,…
Introducing our new “Full Stack” experience, making Serverless Cloud the most productive full-stack developer platform you'll ever use.
28 Mar 2022
Hear industry leaders from Ericsson, Qualcomm, AWS, and AT&T, discuss some of the key ways that 5G will be a game-changer for developers.
A profitability KPI provides a key way to measure business success.
If a chargeback seems illegitimate it should always be fought, when possible
Should your business be accepting as many Payment options as possible?
Discover the best mobile payment app for small business.
There are several electronic payment methods classed as cash or credit payment
We released the fifth edition of our book Advanced Swift a few days ago. You can buy the ebook on the objc.io site. The hardcover print edition is printed and sold by Amazon (amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de). Highlights of the new edition: Fully updated for Swift 5.6 A new Concurrency chapter covering async/await, structured concurrency, and actors New content on property…
For as long as developers have written CSS code, we’ve been desperate to have a method to allow styling a parent element based child characteristics. That’s not been possible until now. CSS has introduced the :has pseudo-class which allows styling a parent based on a relative CSS selector! Let’s have a look at a few use cases for :has in…