Recently developing the Consentric platform, we’ve found the need to connect a lightweight micro-service written using Node.js to a PostgreSQL database. Thankfully, there’s a really nice library to use called node-postgres that makes that job super simple.

Can’t be GDPR’sed? Chances are, as a Dev, compliance is the last thing you want to concern yourself with. Whether the wording on your sign up form is exactly right for your jurisdiction’s data privacy laws, or whether the checkbox labels are detailed enough is unlikely to emote excitement and intrigue for your average developer. That’s Content, That’s Marketing’s Job… That’s Right.

More and more customers are using online products and services. It is a fact of life – we are more connected than ever. Critically, what your customer sees as valuable likely takes many forms and can change from day to day.

The Development Team follows the principles of “Agile Scrum”.

e.g. a daily Stand-up meeting to organise the day’s work and to update the Product Team, plus Planning and Retrospective “ceremonies”.

The world of analytics has grown in complexity over the last few decades. The often-touted ‘cloud’ is supposedly where everyone should be, but the reality is that each business is on its own unique data journey. When companies are supporting analytics and business-intelligence initiatives, they are essentially trying to bring data together – be that in a data warehouse, a data lake, or some other new terminology.