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September 6, 2018Daniel Booth(Pinned) Home Page, Agile, Development, DevOpsNo Comments

The Dev world is waking up to the idea of microservices architecture and the benefits it brings; this short article is a cautionary word of warning from the coal face. I am part of a DevOps team that develops several...

By Default

August 30, 2018Ian Makin(Pinned) Home Page, Cloud, Development, DevOpsNo Comments

It was once accepted that a User Interface only needed to be functional. Bugs against the UI were considered minor or cosmetic problems. This meant that UI issues were usually de-prioritised and the focus was solely on ensuring that the...

Docker Meetup #7, Manchester

August 20, 2018Daniel Booth(Pinned) Home Page, Development, DevOpsNo Comments

I recently attended the excellent Manchester Docker Meetup hosted by Disney Streaming Services (formerly known as the lovely folks from Cake Solutions). Firstly, I would like to thank Anirvan Chakraborty, Laura Bria and Eslam ElHusseiny for hosting yet again! Now...

Provisioning

July 30, 2018Chris Tiffin(Pinned) Home Page, Agile, Cloud, DevOpsNo Comments

In a previous blog post, “There is no cloud, It’s just someone else’s computer”, we talked about how using the Cloud and DevOps creates efficiencies in the seven stages of the software delivery process, ultimately reducing the time from Asks-to-Gets....

Naimuri Summer Party 2018

July 25, 2018Joy Pennington(Pinned) Home Page, PeopleNo Comments

Last weekend the Annual Naimuri Summer Party took place at Cranage Hall in Cheshire. It’s a beautiful, classy, Grade II listed estate hotel - the perfect location for Naimuri to take part in giant tripping, inflatable hurdling, penguin egg passing...

AWS Builders’ Day

July 13, 2018Daniel Booth(Pinned) Home Page, Cloud, Development, DevOpsNo CommentsAWS, cloud, containers, docker

I was lucky enough to attend the AWS Builders’ Day recently and what follows is my attempt to digest and relay the excellent event hosted by Amazon. This blog is a run through of everything I can remember from the...

Cyber Security & Dealing with GDPR: The Technology Side of the Problem

May 22, 2018Steve Atherton(Pinned) Home Page, Cyber Security, PeopleNo Commentscyber, gdpr

In between the royal wedding and BREXIT, you may have heard a lot in the news about the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and would no doubt have received various emails requesting your consent to opt in/opt out of...

Can I ‘Lean’ my IT Infrastructure?

May 21, 2018Dan Carrier(Pinned) Home Page, Agile, Cloud, Ways of WorkingNo Commentsagile, cloud, infrastructure, lean

A lot of organisations have Lean initiatives or a dedicated Lean team. Their aim is to create more value with fewer resources by simplifying processes, introducing new methodologies (e.g Scrum or Kanban) and asking ‘what is the business benefit?’ of...

Test Automation Pitfalls and How To Avoid Them

March 26, 2018Bryan Barnes(Pinned) Home Page, Development, Peopleautomation

I’ve been software testing for over twenty five years and have dabbled in automation for most of that time, but in the last ten years working on numerous agile projects, automation has become more and more important, to the extent...

What even is DevOps?

August 30, 2017Chris Tiffin(Pinned) Home Page, Cloud, DevOpsNo Commentsautomation, cross-functional, devops, infrastructure-as-code, silos

The DevOps movement is all about efficiency in process - optimising the journey from idea to product, or to echo a previous Naimuri blog post, minimising the time from Asks-to-Gets. Every company’s development and delivery structure is different, but generally...

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