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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 into the 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

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.

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 recognised as a ‘Select’ Consulting Partner for Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Partner Network (APN).

Creating Quick Reusable Demos with Terraform

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.