Great to be back at WinOps London 2018! WinOps is a two-day conference filled with workshops, keynotes and track sessions. Each year at the conference the WinOps community comes together to share experiences of ‘DevOps in a Windows World’. On day 1 of the conference, there were workshops run by sponsors GitHub, Chef Software, Microsoft, […]
Read MoreOne of the most profound challenges faced by technology companies today is talent. According to the latest Harvey Nash survey, 65 per cent of CIOs believe that a shortage of tech skills is affecting their ability to respond to change. The study quizzed 3,958 leaders globally and explored the causes of the tech skills gap […]
Read MoreDiversity is one of the most prominent issues faced by digital businesses today. Research from industry body Tech Nation shows that women in IT are outnumbered by men 4:1 and make up just 19 per cent of the UK digital workforce. The lack of young women taking up IT courses is a big cause of […]
Read MoreAs part of our continuing growth plans, we’ve expanded our presence in the capital and made Rise London the newest addition to our UK locations. Rise is located in the heart of Shoreditch and is home to a thriving community of FinTech companies, as well as the Barclays Accelerator. Our plan is to use the […]
Read MoreGunning for growth? You’ll have to put the brakes on some time. “Behind our booming business was a technology powder keg with a lit fuse.” Kevin Scott, Microsoft CTO and former SVP of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn Kevin Scott’s article ‘When your tech debt comes due’ will strike a chord with many scale-up CTOs. […]
Read MoreIBM has become the latest technology giant to make a landmark investment in the open-source software arena, following Microsoft’s $7.5 billion takeover of GitHub and Salesforce’s $6.5 billion acquisition of MuleSoft. Last week, the firm inked a deal to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion, its largest acquisition to date and the third largest in […]
Read MoreDevOps is transforming businesses of all shapes and sizes globally, and aerospace giant BAE Systems is one of them. During my time at the company, I spent two years implementing the philosophies and practices of Agile and DevOps to help accelerate organisational growth and performance. To me, DevOps isn’t just getting to a stage where […]
Read MoreUnlocking the DevOps psychology: What does the digital mindset look like? A big part of DevOps is challenging traditional, established software development approaches that have dominated the industry for decades. But convincing organisations and IT leaders that there are better alternatives out there is far from an easy task. Regardless of industry, the world is […]
Read MoreOver the past few years, automation has become a hot topic in the technology world. It’s all about speeding up complex, time-consuming processes by reducing human input and simultaneously minimising the likelihood of human error. This, of course, has led to mixed headlines in the media. While some people are worried that this technology will […]
Read MoreWritten by Gareth Saxby, Senior Cloud Engineer Thousands of technologists from around the world have gathered in San Francisco for the 2018 HashiConf, and I’ve been fortunate enough to fly over there to experience it for the first time. HashiConf 2018 promises an opportunity to learn about the latest trends in DevOps, multi-cloud and next-generation […]
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