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The 2023 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC) – Final Part

March 5, 2024 | Blog, Culture, News

The 2023 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC) – Final Part

Learn more about our efforts and our progress towards becoming an environmentally friendly company for the Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC) in 2023 in this final update.

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Event Driven Load Testing

October 12, 2023 | Blog, Platform Engineering

Event Driven Load Testing

Check out our latest blog “Event Driven Load Testing” which explores how, through some smart automation techniques, testing strategies can be adapted to support scale-up organisations where there are potentially many disparate teams needing to work together.

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The 2023 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC) – Part 2

September 19, 2023 | Blog, Culture, News

The 2023 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC) – Part 2

In this blog we share the latest developments in our efforts to create a more sustainable business as part of The 2023 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge.

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OpenCredo awarded Britain’s Healthiest Workplace for SMEs

September 8, 2023 | Blog

OpenCredo awarded Britain’s Healthiest Workplace for SMEs

We were recently awarded ‘Britain’s Healthiest Workplace for SMEs’ by Vitality. Read on to learn more about our journey to achieving this award and what we are doing to improve our workplace culture.

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Cloud for Business in 2023: Raconteur and techUK webinar (Recording)

June 13, 2023 | Blog, Cloud

Cloud for Business in 2023: Raconteur and techUK webinar (Recording)

Check out the recording of our CEO/CTO Nicki Watt, and other panellists at the Raconteur and techUK webinar discussing “The Cloud for Business Report,” which was published in The Sunday Times on 5th March 2023.

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TL;DR – Computational Governance in Data Mesh with OPA

April 21, 2023 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Mesh, OPA

TL;DR – Computational Governance in Data Mesh with OPA

Check out Mateus Pimenta’s TL;DR video to learn how federated computational governance could be implemented using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and policy-as-code to support a successful Data Mesh architecture.

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The 2022/2023 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC)

January 20, 2023 | Blog, Culture, News

The 2022/2023 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC)

OpenCredo is thrilled to be a part of the 2022/2023 Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge (BCC). Read this blog to learn more about our initiatives to lower carbon emissions as part of the voluntary energy efficiency programme!

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HackCredo – An Internal OpenCredo Hackathon

July 5, 2022 | Blog, Culture

HackCredo – An Internal OpenCredo Hackathon

As we are passionate about using technology to solve problems, we are thrilled to share with you our internal competition, “HackCredo.” Read on to learn more about the competition, the groups, and the winners.

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Lunch & Learn: Learnings from Writing My Own Operating System from Scratch

June 30, 2022 | Blog, Culture

Lunch & Learn: Learnings from Writing My Own Operating System from Scratch

In this Lunch & Learn session, Peter Vegh advises on ‘Learnings from Writing my Own Operating System from Scratch’

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Lunch & Learn: Scala in 2022

June 16, 2022 | Data Analysis, Data Engineering

Lunch & Learn: Scala in 2022

In this lunch & learn session Matt Farrow shares the new developments in Scala and what it could all mean for Scala’s future.

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Agile Ex Meet Up – Coaching at the Organisational level

May 24, 2022 | Software Consultancy

Agile Ex Meet Up – Coaching at the Organisational level

Watch Simon Copsey’s talk from the Agile Ex Meetup on “Coaching at the Organisational Level” where he explores some of the common downward spirals in IT and the larger organisation, as well as the tools that coaches and individuals can use to surface and discuss them in a way that allows for systemic change, even without formal authority.

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Lunch & Learn: GraalVM and Java Native Image

May 12, 2022 | Microservices

Lunch & Learn: GraalVM and Java Native Image

Combining Native image with Spring Boot and Micronaut GraalVM makes for a high-performance runtime that can significantly improve application performance and efficiency, making it ideal for microservices. Native images enable Java applications to be compiled ahead of time, resulting in smaller, faster Java microservices.

In this talk, Guy Coleman will demonstrate a hello world web service using both Spring Boot and Micronaut as they both support native images.

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Agnostic Agile Meetup – Systems Thinking for Happy Staff and Elated Customers

May 5, 2022 | Culture, Software Consultancy

Agnostic Agile Meetup – Systems Thinking for Happy Staff and Elated Customers

Watch Simon Copsey’s talk from the Agnostic Agile Meetup on “Systems Thinking for Happy Staff and Elated Customers.”

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Lunch & Learn: Organisational Transformation – Why it often fails, and tools for success

April 28, 2022 | Software Consultancy

Lunch & Learn: Organisational Transformation – Why it often fails, and tools for success

Watch our latest Lunch & Learn video as Simon Copsey provides an in-depth look at what causes Organisational Transformation failures and what can be done to ensure its success.

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Lunch & Learn: A Closer Look at Databricks

March 24, 2022 | Data Analysis, Data Engineering

Lunch & Learn: A Closer Look at Databricks

In this Lunch & Learn session our Senior Consultant, Seb Margineanu shares an overview of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform by exploring the evolution of Databricks.

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Lunch & Learn: GraphQL on Springboot

March 10, 2022 | Data Engineering, Open Source

Lunch & Learn: GraphQL on Springboot

In this lunch & learn session, Ebru Cucen and Alberto Faedda explore the historical background of GraphQL with case examples and a demo of how it can be used.

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Lunch & Learn: Secure Pipelines Enforcing policies using OPA

March 3, 2022 | AWS, Open Source, Software Consultancy

Lunch & Learn: Secure Pipelines Enforcing policies using OPA

Watch our Lunch & Learn by Hieu Doan and Alberto Faedda as they share how engineers and security teams can secure their software development processes with the Secure Pipelines application.

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What you might have missed in Kubernetes 1.22 release

December 5, 2021 | Cloud, Kubernetes

What you might have missed in Kubernetes 1.22 release

Kubernetes’ second release in 2021, version 1.22, has been out for a little while now and with 1.23 on its way, we thought we’d take a look back. Kubernetes 1.22 was a highly comprehensive release with 53 enhancements in all three graduation levels: 13 features have graduated to stable, 24 enhancements reached beta status, and 16 new features have been accepted into the alpha stage. 

The latest version has some noteworthy security features such as running Kubelet without root access, pod security policies, and seccomp. There are also a couple of deprecated and removed APIs. In this blog, we’ll discuss the significant changes in v1.22, as well as how to handle the removed APIs.

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GOTOpia 2021 – Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service

February 9, 2021 | Cloud Native, DevOps, Kubernetes

GOTOpia 2021 – Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service

Watch Nicki Watt’s talk on Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service at GOTOpia to learn what it takes to build a platform that is fit to serve the communities which will ultimately use it.

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