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Comparing AWS Glue and AWS EMR

Comparing AWS Glue and EMR Glue and EMR (Elastic MapReduce) are two AWS services that offer overlapping capabilities. So, when should you use one versus the other. In this article, we will provide an overview of the features and capabilities of both and provide some guidance to help inform your choice. While both of these services provide ETL (Extract Transform Load) capabilities, there are some fundamental differences in the way that the services operate.

How to handle Lambda errors in API Gateway

When creating/maintaining APIs, errors will inevitably occur, whether that’s caused by the client request or caused by an error on the server end. Either way a good API will help the requesting client understand what has happened so that they can modify their request or simply report an issue.

Create a component library using Create React App, Storybook and Jest

Learn how to create a component library without ejecting Create React App, develop components in isolation using Storybook and test using Jest.

5 Technology Trends in the Travel Industry for 2021

In this post, we dust down our crystal ball and look at what we think might be the trends in travel technology in the coming year.

npm Peer Dependencies

Peer dependencies are not generally well understood. In this post, we’ll explain what they are and when you should consider using them.

Fathom joins Learnovate education technology research centre in Trinity College Dublin

Fathom has become a member of Trinity College Dublin education technology research centre, Learnovate.

Amazon Connect Putting an End to Telephone Hold Hell

Recent coverage of bad customer phone experience reminded me of hold-hell when trying to upgrade broadband ahead of my daughter’s online exams during lockdown.

Training and Deploying Machine Learning Models with AWS Sagemaker

A guide to training and deploying an XGBoost machine learning model in Sagemaker

Amazon S3 + Amazon CloudFront

Amazon claims that if implemented correctly, delivering data through CloudFront can be more cost-effective than delivering it from S3 directly. Let’s take a look at the advantages of using the two services in tandem.

Designing For The Notch

Learn how to adjust your website design to look great on devices with notches or cutouts.

DropETA Hailing service developed by Fathom

Fathom are pleased to announce the launch of the DropETA service, a service designed and engineered by Fathom.

Preparing Your Data For AWS Sagemaker

A guide to prepping, visualising and cleaning up your machine learning data to make it suitable for the XGBoost algorithm.

Microservices vs. Serverless

A comparison of microservice and serverless architectures and why and where to use either.

Taking Jupyter Notebook for a Spin

In this post, we walk through the basics of getting set up to use Jupyter Notebook, most people’s preferred tool for Data Science experimentation.

End to End testing with Cypress

Creating basic end to end tests for your web application using Cypress.

Language Learning App - My journey so far

Insights into the world of language learning technology, read what the students thought of our app and how a conference gave us helpful insights into the language learning field

Big Data - What is it?

Looking at Big Data and components such as five V’s of data, how we generate and store data and why we use it in business

AWS Select Partner

Fathom, an Irish based software development company, are pleased to announce we have been recognized as a ‘Select’ Consulting Partner for Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Partner Network (APN).

Using Terraform to create re-usable infrastructure templates from which new ready to deploy projects can be quickly created.

Here at Fathom, R&D is what we do. As a result of that, there are a lot of demonstrations of what we’ve done, how we’ve provided value to customers in the past and what we focus our efforts on. Recently, I revisited an old project of ours to get it ready for a demo with a prospective client - it was the classic scenario of “If you come back to this project in 6 months, will you remember what you did?

NodeconfEU

Fathom recently attended the NodeconfEU conference at Lyrath Estate in Kilkenny, Ireland.

NodeconfEU is an annual event that brings together member of the global NodeJS community. The main event organizer was Nearform, who were the main sponsors along with IBM and Microsoft. Red Hat, Google and Nodesource also sponsored.

Building a Chatbot with AWS Lex

A lot of people will be familiar with Alexa, Amazon’s helpful and cheery assistant that’s ready to play music for you, tell jokes and assure you it’s not here to take over the world. However, not so many will know of Lex - a deep-learning conversational interface that’s effectively the brains behind that friendly female voice on the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot.