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What current website, security and technology news means for UK businesses.
- Taking control of your platform's infrastructure on AWS
When simple changes wait on outside partners, your platform runs at their speed. Here's how one software platform brought its infrastructure into its own AWS account.
- Fixing a live fault you can't reproduce: lessons from an FX trading outage
An electronic trading connection failed with a strange error that nobody could reproduce on test. The answer was on the live server, and the fix went beyond clearing the fault.
- Giving non-technical staff live data with Power BI
When only developers can reach your data, everyone else has to ask. Power BI dashboards with automatic refresh changed that for one organisation.
- How to take back control of your website from a single supplier
If one outside supplier holds the only access to your website, every change depends on them. Here's how one business moved its site in-house, on good terms.
- Deploying code to several servers without waiting for a sysadmin
When every release depends on one person being free, fixes wait. A simple self-service tool removed that bottleneck for a digital agency running five cloud servers.
- When off-the-shelf sync tools fall short: connecting Salesforce and Trello
Two full-time staff were keeping support tickets and development cards in step by hand. Ready-made tools couldn't handle the custom fields, so a small custom service took over.
- How to stop re-keying data between your CRM and other systems
When two teams rely on two systems that don't talk to each other, someone ends up copying data by hand. Here's how a two-way sync solved that for a financial services business.
- Why a database import can stop with no errors: the MySQL INT limit
An import script keeps running, the logs look clean, and yet no new records appear. One cause is easy to miss: the table has simply run out of ID numbers.
- PHP security flaws: what UK website owners should do
Two critical flaws in PHP affect websites running on it, including WordPress sites. Here's what happened, which versions are fixed and what to ask your host or developer.