soft skills

EQ from the perspective of a software engineer

If you're reading this post, thank you, and I hope you enjoy the journey. I feel it necessary to note that this is largely an opinion piece. As such, expect large quantities of opinions. You may or may not agree with all of them, and that's

azure

PSRule - Lessons in improving your Azure Infrastructure as Code testing

As cloud-first strategies grow, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is crucial. Microsoft Azure's Bicep speeds up development but may compromise security and best practices. PSRule, combined with PSRule.Rules.Azure, counters this, restoring robustness and quality in early development stages.

welcome

Welcome Jess

We are super excited to welcome Jess Panni who has joined MakerX as our Chief Product Officer based in the UK. Our CEO, Matt Davies had this to say: Jess has been on the MakerX journey since the very beginning, as one of the trusted external advisors we consulted from

culture

MakerX is now a certified 'Great Place to Work'

We are thrilled to share some exciting news MakerX is now a Great Place To Work certified company! This coveted certification is no small feat. It recognises businesses that offer an exceptional work environment and foster high employee satisfaction and engagement. We're proud to be counted among these

welcome

Welcome to Altynbek

We are over the moon to introduce Altynbek Orumbayev who has joined MakerX as a Lead Engineer. Our CTO, Rob Moore had this to say: Altynbek is a very impressive entrepreneur and engineer with an extensive set of Algorand projects and community focussed initiatives under his belt. He adds to

graphql

How to: GraphQL subscriptions

This post describes implementing GraphQL subscriptions over WebSockets using the GraphQL WS package by The Guild.

cloud

Securing a GraphQL endpoint with Azure API Management

Today I'll explore the different Azure API Management (APIM) networking options and discuss the best option for securing a GraphQL endpoint. As I walk through the approach taken, I'll also explain why securing GraphQL with API Management can add a lot of overhead, work, and cost,

ai

Stable Diffusion in the Cloud

The Stable Diffusion landscape is rapidly evolving. Find out what it is and how you can get started.

aws

Traces to logs correlation in AWS with Node.js

Introduction I recently joined MakerX, and the first project I worked on was hosted in AWS using Fargate to run containers, CloudWatch for logs, and X-Ray for OpenTelemetry traces. To make troubleshooting easier, we wanted to see how we could get correlation between traces and logs, or, in other words,

welcome

Welcome to Vick

A super big warm welcome to Vick Tahil who has joined MakerX as a Principal Engineer. Our CEO, Matt Davies had this to say: Vick has a long background in delivering high quality software as well as significant experience advising clients in the startup and ventures space. Thrilled to have

welcome

Welcome to Shannon

A super big warm welcome to Shannon Lewis who has joined MakerX as a Lead Engineer. Our CTO, Rob Moore had this to say: Shannon is an incredibly experienced practitioner that many people in our team are incredibly excited to work with again (myself included). Shannon is a great leader

zod

Building a typesafe multi-form action handler in Remix Series - Hooks, proxy and Dispatcher to the rescue

In this series, I build a small Todo application. To begin, I use a combination of Remix, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and React. It'll be functional but fragile to change. To address the fragility, I introduce and use Remix Validated Form, a React form library, Zod, a TypeScript-first schema

welcome

Welcome to Negar

A super big warm welcome to Negar Abbasi who has joined MakerX as a Junior Developer. Our CEO, Matt Davies had this to say: We're excited for the opportunity to welcome talented people to MakerX who are getting started with new careers and have extremely bright futures ahead

typescript

Building a typesafe multi-form action handler in Remix Series - Remix validated form and Zod

In this series, I build a small Todo application. To begin, I use a combination of Remix, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and React. It'll be functional but fragile to change. To address the fragility, I introduce and use Remix Validated Form, a React form library, Zod, a TypeScript-first schema

typescript

Building a typesafe multi-form action handler in Remix Series - The problem

In this series, I build a small Todo application. To begin, I use a combination of Remix, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and React. It'll be functional but fragile to change. To address the fragility, I introduce and use Remix Validated Form, a React form library, Zod, a TypeScript-first schema

welcome

Welcome to Inaie

We've recently celebrated Inaie Ignacio joining the MakerX team! Inaie is a Lead Engineer based over in Perth. Our CTO Rob had this to say: I'm excited to have Inaie join us. Not only is Inaie an awesome software engineer, but she has a lot of

ai

LLMs and How They'll Play a Big Part in the Startup Game

2023 has been a transformative year for artificial intelligence (AI), impacting all industries and sectors. One only needs to look at the incredible strides made by ChatGPT in recent months to understand how AI is revolutionising how we work and use these Large Language Models (LLMs). It's effectively

github

Leveraging GitHub Actions Environment Secrets and Variables in Your Deployment Workflows

GitHub Actions Environments are powerful in managing deployment workflows, but their documentation doesn't always provide clear guidance on handling secrets and variables. In this summary blog post, we discuss the various ways to leverage Environment secrets and variables, discussing their benefits and limitations in different scenarios. Summary of

aws

Scanning uploaded files in S3 Buckets for malware

Working on a recent project, we looked at various ways to ensure that our system was as secure as possible. It's great that today, we can easily use cloud storage services like AWS S3, Azure Storage Accounts and Google Cloud Storage without having to worry about managing all

welcome

Welcome to Dan Healy!

Last week we welcomed Dan Healy to MakerX as our Chief Financial Officer! This is an important step for us as we continue to focus on sustainable growth. Dan is an exceptional financial leader with a proven track record of success across multiple businesses.  We are over the moon that

welcome

Welcome to Aly!

Today we excitedly welcome Aly on board as a Lead Designer at MakerX. She joins us from sunny Brisbane.

welcome

Welcome to Dario!

This week we are welcoming Dario Mratovich, joining our MakerX team in Perth as a Principal Engineer. Rob and myself are lucky enough to have worked with Dario in the past and can't speak highly enough of the professionalism and brilliance he brings to clients building software products.

welcome

Welcome to Neil!

We're thrilled this week to welcome Neil Campbell, joining our MakerX team in Perth as a Principal Engineer. Neil has a long background in building quality software, in recent years as an independent consultant. Neil is a lifelong tinkerer - software, electronics, wood work, metal work, house renovations,

typescript

Resizing User-Provided Images in the Browser

Many web sites allow users to upload images for later display, for example a company logo or a profile photo. To enable this functionality while also making it easy to use and protecting other uses there are some issues that need to be solved: * What if a very large image

welcome

Welcome to Goodo!

I could not be more excited this week to welcome Rachael Goodenough (Goodo) to MakerX as our Head of People & Culture. We've had so many amazing new starters at MakerX in a relatively short period of time, going from 1 to 25 permanent staff in just under