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March 28, 2024 | Blog, Platform Engineering
Watch the recording of our CEO/CTO, Nicki Watt from the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 on her talk “To K8S and Beyond – Maturing Your Platform Engineering Initiative.”
February 1, 2024 | Blog, Platform Engineering
Watch the recording of our CEO/CTO, Nicki Watt from the GOTO Amsterdam Conference 2023 on her talk “Why is it so Hard to Create a Great Platform-as-a-product?”
July 20, 2023 | Blog, Platform Engineering
Watch the recording of our CEO/CTO Nicki Watt and other PlatformCon Conference speakers discussing the highlights and lowlights of the talks and the Platform Engineering community, as well as lessons learned and trends spotted.
July 11, 2023 | Blog, Platform Engineering
Check out our CEO/CTO, Nicki Watt’s, talk “Why is it so hard to create a great Platform-as-a-Product?” from the PlatformCon Conference 2022.
March 29, 2023 | Blog, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering
Watch the recording of our CEO/CTO, Nicki Watt from the State of Open Conference on her talk “Internal Developer Platforms – Of the people, By the people, For the people.”
December 8, 2022 | Blog, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering
Watch the recording of our CEO/CTO, Nicki Watt from the Kubernetes Community Days on her talk “Kubernetes-based platforms – of the people, by the people, for the people.”
July 6, 2022 | Platform Engineering
Watch the recording of our CEO/CTO, Nicki Watt from the GOTO Copenhagen Conference 2022 on her talk ” From Data Mess —> Data Mesh: Navigating People, Process & Platforms”
June 22, 2022 | Platform Engineering
Watch the recording of our CEO/CTO, Nicki Watt from the PlatformCon Conference 2022 on her talk “People, Process, and Platform – a community-focused approach.”
May 26, 2022
Our CEO/CTO Nicki Watt shares about her upcoming talk at PlatformCon 2022.
July 20, 2021 | Blog, Data Engineering, Kafka
Message and event-driven systems provide an array of benefits to organisations of all shapes and sizes. At their core, they help decouple producers and consumers so that each can work at their own pace without having to wait for the other – asynchronous processing at its best.
In fact, such systems enable a whole range of messaging patterns, offering varying levels of guarantees surrounding the processing and consumption options for clients. Take for example the publish/subscribe pattern, which enables one message to be broadcast and consumed by multiple consumers; or the competing consumer pattern, which enables a message to be processed once but with multiple concurrent consumers vying for the honour—essentially providing a way to distribute the load. The manner in which these patterns are actually realised however, depends a lot on the technology used, as each has its own approach and unique tradeoffs.
In this article we will explore how this all applies to RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka, and how these two technologies differ, specifically from a message consumer’s perspective.
November 13, 2019 | Software Consultancy
Pioneering and pushing technology boundaries – pretty much a given nowadays for the software-driven startup. Here are some insights we’ve observed working with a number of venture capital (VC) companies who have managed to navigate the choppy waters and successfully grow their business including winning further investment along the way.
With our deep hands-on technical expertise and pragmatic focus, OpenCredo has become a natural software acceleration partner for VC funded organisations who are looking to deliver tangible value as effectively as possible. We’ve been brought in to work alongside these innovators at various stages of their journey. As such we’ve gained an appreciation for and acquired, first-hand insight into some of the pressures and challenges faced. From getting and securing that next round of funding, to grappling with the technical decisions and challenges inherent in sensibly evolving offerings to accommodate future growth and scaling.
This blog is written exclusively by the OpenCredo team. We do not accept external contributions.
October 24, 2017 | Data Engineering
Cockroach Labs, the creators of CockroachDB are coming to London for the first time since their 1.0 GA Release in May 2017. They will be taking time to talk about “The Hows & Whys of a Distributed SQL Database” at the Applied Data Engineering meetup, hosted and run by us here at OpenCredo.
We have been interested in CockroachDB for a while now, including publishing our initial impressions of the release on our blog. We thought this would be the perfect time to do a bit of a Q&A before the event! I posed Raphael Poss, a core Software Engineer at Cockroach Labs a few questions.
August 9, 2017 | Cloud, DevOps, Terraform Provider
The recent 0.10.0 release of HashiCorp Terraform, saw a significant change to the way Providers are managed. Specifically, the single open source code repository for Terraform has been divided into core and multiple provider repositories.
April 25, 2017 | Cassandra, Data Analysis, Data Engineering
Apache Spark is a powerful open source processing engine which is fast becoming our technology of choice for data analytic projects here at OpenCredo. For many years now we have been helping our clients to practically implement and take advantage of various big data technologies including the like of Apache Cassandra amongst others.
January 24, 2017 | Cloud
This blog aims to provide an end to end example of how you can automatically request, generate and install a free HTTPS/TLS/SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt using Terraform. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA) aiming to make it super easy (and free – did I say free!) for people to obtain HTTPS (SSL/TLS) certificates for their websites and infrastructure. Under the hood, Let’s Encrypt implements and leverages an emerging protocol called ACME to make all this magic happen, and it is this ACME protocol that powers the Terraform provider we will be using. For more information on how Let’s Encrypt and the ACME protocol actually work, please see how Let’s Encrypt works.
April 2, 2016 | Terraform Provider
When it comes to automating the creation of infrastructure in cloud providers, Terraform (version at time of writing 0.6.14) has become one of my core go to tools in this space. It provides a fantastic declarative approach to describing the resources you want, and then takes care of making it so for you, keeping track of the state in either a local file or a remote store of some sort. Various bits of sensitive data is often provided as input to terraform.
August 10, 2015 | Cloud, Software Consultancy
As a company, we at OpenCredo are heavily involved in automation and devOps based work, with a keen focus on making this a seamless experience, especially in cloud based environments. We are currently working within HMRC, a UK government department to help make this a reality as part of a broader cloud broker ecosystem project. In this blog post, I look to provide some initial insight into some of the tools and techniques employed to achieve this for one particular use case namely:
With pretty much zero human intervention, bar initiating a process and providing some inputs, a development team from any location, should be able to run “something”, which, in the end, results in an isolated, secure set of fully configured VM’s being provisioned within a cloud provider (or providers) of choice.
December 21, 2014 | Publications
Neo4j in Action is a comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and querying graph data using Neo4j. Using hands-on examples, you’ll learn to model graph domains naturally with Neo4j graph structures. The book explores the full power of native Java APIs for graph data manipulation and querying.
