Startup Reality
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Startup Reality

Introduction In this post I’m going to be brutally honest about the good, the bad & the ugly realities involved when working as a software engineer, within a startup. It certainly isn’t how Hollywood might vision it, it likely isn’t as exciting as a lot of people might think. It’s safe to say that if…

2022 – The New Year

2022 – The New Year

In recent months I’ve been somewhat absent to my blog, long story put short, I’ve been incredibly busy with both my work & my personal life. Personally I’m going through a lot of general changes in my life at this point in time. Whether that means doing some house work or simply preparing for other…

QOS Status Report
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QOS Status Report

I’ll keep this one relatively short. I just thought that I’d share what I’ve been up to lately, I’m currently a very, very busy bee! 🐝 One thing that I’ve recently worked on at QuoteOnSite is what we’re calling the content library, from an end user perspective, this is essentially a web based file system….

Cost Effective SOA
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Cost Effective SOA

One thing that I’m currently working on at QuoteOnSite is achieving SOA, whilst ensuring that we don’t go above & beyond with the budget, for obvious reasons. But based on experience & research, it turns out that PM2 & Node seems to be a perfect combination, as we only need a single virtual machine in…