I think we need an ERP system

We often get customer enquiries which start with the above phrase, which is fine – but there’s no real ‘one-size fits all’ system which works in this way. Let’s delve in deeper to explain a…

Automation – and why it won’t be taking your job

There’s a perfect storm brewing across industries which is accelerating businesses’ needs to automate. Automation is the only way of keeping business going and it’s not about taking your job, it’s about preserving it. However you look…

Riding the ChatGPT Wave

In the first of our video series, Red River’s co-founder Kieren Johnstone, talks through why we all need ChatGPT in our lives. This is the most significant development in tech since the 90s. As such,…

Introducing the Red River Virtual Environment (“VE”)

Over the past few months, we’ve been working on an internal R&D project / experiment – the Red River Virtual Environment. It’s an exciting one, so let’s take a look! “VE (Virtual Environment) is a…

Raising the bar(code) with microservices

We’ve been closely following the hype around Docker, Kubernetes and all things containerisation for some time. It’s hard not to get caught up in it! However, rather than just microservice-ing all the things, we thought it…

Revenge of the Lunchbots, in the beginning…

 …Simon describes the rationale behind the Red River initiative “The Lunchbots” Those of you who have followed us at Red River know of the work we do with schools, educational institutions and regional initiatives to help…

Transfer Learning & The Power of Pre-Trained Models

Machine Learning is beyond a buzzword now – its use has grown rapidly over the last few years. It powers your phone’s autocorrect, your GPS traffic predictions and it even suggested that you add that…

Accessing SQL Azure from Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform

Today we’re sharing a small open-source project which we use as a part of our cloud / containerisation strategy. It takes the form of a straightforward Linux bash script wrapped up in a Docker container,…

How-to guide: Copying files using Webpack plugins

Sometimes in the world of web development you have to work around some funny deployment issues and do things a bit manually. An issue I recently encountered was trying to copy a single file into…

Implementing Stripe 3D Secure to de-risk online payments

Right now, Stripe is arguably one of the best available options for companies wanting to take online payments from their customers. At Red River we’ve completed a number of Stripe implementations for our own customers and…

Push or Poll? Get hooked on snappy integrations

I’ve written about APIs in a previous post and I’m returning to the topic here, chiefly because they’re so fundamental to much of the work we undertake for our customers, and to the world of…

Install GitVersion on Ubuntu 16.04: a step-by-step guide

One of Red River’s core tenets is our iterative, continuous deployment of projects. As a part of this process, we recently had to provision a new Linux build server and install GitVersion on it. I could not find a…