First B2B Engineering Blog
Server-less Architecture & Priority queues
By tobias.leyland@firstb2b.com • September 12, 2025
Good afternoon!
Todays blog post is around our move to Server-less and implementing priority queueing.
Why server-less?
Our processing system is queue based. Some time ago, we had 'workers' running on our different servers that would process maps.
Managing these workers was a manual t...
Our Journey to AWS RDS - Lessons Learned from a Database Migration
By tobias.leyland@firstb2b.com • September 04, 2025
Database migrations are never simple, especially when you're dealing with enterprise-scale data. This week, we're excited to share our experience migrating our production database to AWS RDS and the valuable lessons we learned along the way.
The Challenge
Managing a database with several TBs ...
ISO 27001:2022 Surveillance Audit 1 passed
By tobias.leyland@firstb2b.com • August 29, 2025
We are delighted to announce that First B2B has passed the first surveillance audit and received a refreshed certificate for 2025
For those unaware, in 2024 we first gained our ISO27001:2022 certification. The surveillance audit is performed yearly thereafter to ensure that we are still demons...
Welcome
By tobias.leyland@firstb2b.com • August 29, 2025
Welcome to First B2B's new Engineering blog.
As we've been plotting away for some time this migration to AWS, we figured that it would be nice to dive into some of the detail of what has been happening behind the scenes here.
We will likely jump into some technical detail but will aim to ke...