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The main advantage of Karate over other automated API testing tools is that it requires virtually no knowledge of any programming language.

An Anaemic Domain Model is a model with no logic in it. Domain classes look more like a bunch of public setters and getters without domain logic where the client of the class has control over how to instantiate and modify the class.

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Microservice architecture is an approach to software design that breaks down large projects into a set of manageable, independent and loosely-coupled services

As a company that has to handle large amounts of traffic, Netflix points to the scalability advantages of the cloud as one of the key drivers for their decision to migrate.

FarmSmart, in partnership with London-based technical consultancy Amido, has launched an innovative mobile application that shares essential, sustainable and climate-smart farming knowledge to smallholder farmers.

As a Tech Lead at my current client, my role is quite varied. I focus on the bigger picture of business requirements and architecture of the solutions to fulfil the requirements.

More applications are built using microservice architecture, which allows us to deliver independent components more regularly in the distributed system.

Be inquisitive, ask questions and present options. All of these things will help you to find out what you need and enable you to define what elements are needed in a project.

In recent years many housing associations have been struggling to improve customer services, with ratings dropping as low as 58% in some instances

As a result of an investigation on Node and Serverless application I have created a POC using AngularJS and AWS lambdas.

Secret management is the process of protecting sensitive information such as credentials, keys, and certificates throughout their entire lifecycle.

Terraform is a great infrastructure-as-code tool which we love at Amido, but effectively implementing the aws_lambda_function resource in the real world can be a little bit challenging.

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I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to work closely with Microsoft on “Red Dog”; this is the project that was to become Azure.

Working at a consultancy gives you somewhat of a dual personality, at the end of the day, a consultancy thrives on the skill of its employees and the reputation with its clients.

Over the last few years, the term Microservices has skyrocketed, and a question raised is always around the tooling to support them.

ITIL as a concept was introduced as a way to manage an IT environment but has grown to encompass managing processes and customers.

People still tend to over-engineer the packaging strategy of an application they’ve built in only 30 minutes as part of an interview process.

A typical development and testing activity normally begins with taking a user story and digesting the information in it. From this shared understanding, we start to construct a set of use cases as a means of verifying the implementation and its completeness.

A key part of any identity process involves the sending of emails for things like account verification, forgotten password and security updates. Testing these can present several challenges as there are usually 3rd party services involved (you’re unlikely to be including a custom SMTP server and mailbox with your project!)

Often you need to manipulate a data structure without knowing it’s shape at compile time i.e. when authoring classes that expose generic interfaces or dealing with data described by runtime metadata.

The destructuring assignment syntax was introduced to JavaScript in ES6, it is a simple way of extracting data stored in objects and arrays into variables.

It took five years to learn the basics but in the year that I have been working at Amido I have learnt more than I ever did before.

I’ve wanted to get into IT since my school days where, along with a weekend job in a sweet-shop, I would work as an IT technician once a week after school

One of the core principals of software development is “Don’t Repeat Yourself”, that is never do something twice in two different places.

In everyday life, no one would want to buy into a service where they felt they had no alternative provider. We all take competition for granted.