DPG Media sets a standard in securing Macs — Written by Peter Loobuyck, Apple System Engineer At Jamf Nation Amsterdam, we hosted a session about Mac management on stage. Among the topics we discussed, there were a lot of questions about how and why not to use local admin accounts on a managed Mac. …

AWS CloudWatch costs and their causes — Written by: Gert Leenders, Enterprise SecDevOps Lead Logs & Metrics To get insights, logs and metrics are crucial in a setup when you build a service or application. In case of trouble, logs are the first place to look. And metrics enable you to predict events and get notified as soon as numbers…

8 tips to put your consumers at the center of everything — Written by Head of Product Paula van Steijn We all crave a little love every once in a while. Not just from our partners, family, or friends, but also from our consumers. After all, they are the ones we wake up for every day. The ones we think about in…

Written by Tibo Beijen, Lead Developer / Agile Architect Finally, after the pandemic abruptly changed every meetup and conference into a video conference, in-person events are possible again! I attended Edgecase 2022, organized by Fullstaq, and focused on running Kubernetes at the edge. These are my main takeaways. At Nu.nl, we don’t run Kubernetes at the edge, nor do we intend to. We use AWS. Nevertheless, underlying techniques might still be applicable. …

Moving our codebase to native — Written by: Tijs Teulings, React Native Specialist Some of DPG Media’s apps now feature very different navigation. We went native. This is a ‘behind the scenes’ story of how we got there, and what’s in store next! Why do we need Navigation 2.0? For the past few months, our tech teams have worked hard to deliver…

Written by Jun Chatani, Developer In this blog, you can find how Dotfiles can install all applications and programs on a brand new machine; this will help you have a unified configuration on every device. No more: “it works on my machine”! Imagine it’s the first day of work. You…

Written by Geert Van Wauwe, Backend/Fullstack Developer This post will investigate the effect of various memory configurations on the perceived network throughput of AWS Lambda. A brief introduction of AWS Lambda is given and the throughput during upload of a fixed size image is analyzed. …

The longer you talk, the smaller you become — Written by Jaro Vanderheijden, Front-end Developer The Dutch columnist and office amazon Japke-d. Bouma wrote a book ‘The 19 Things You Should Never Do With Colleagues’. It contains a list of seven facts about online meetings. #6: “I want a Zoom or Teams functionality that makes people smaller the longer…

Getting the hang of Svelte; an introduction — Written by Charlotte Huygen, Developer Have you ever heard of Svelte? Well, neither did I until a little over a year ago. Interested in what it is? Keep reading! I’ll tell you all about it and what you have to keep in mind when starting Svelte. I’ll have you writing…