Public sector IT projects are hard because some people live in goddamn vans James Blizzard 07/07/2021 I’m sure I’m not the only one that hears about big public sector IT projects costing billions and exclaims that…
Apple’s move to ARM could reshape the development landscape James Blizzard 28/07/2020 Back in 2015, AMD’s CFO, Devinder Kumar, made the prediction that by 2019 “15% of the overall server space is…
Cloud infrastructure like Dynamics 365 can set your legacy data free James Blizzard 18/03/2020 For a long time, it’s been widely accepted that startup businesses can gain an edge over larger, establishment rivals, due…
Do you really need microservices? James Blizzard 01/07/2019 We’ve been designing and building software for over ten years and for most of that time we’ve been using the…
Hertz, Accenture, and the website blame game James Blizzard 30/04/2019 It was widely reported last week that Hertz filed a lawsuit against the multi-national consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture, charging…
Modernising our hosting infrastructure: what we’ve learnt James Blizzard 28/01/2019 Most firms that build digital products expect to run and maintain them for many years after launch. During that time,…
Divide and conquer. How to manage multiple data streams James Blizzard 13/07/2017 We recently completed the development of a bespoke secure portal for a client and, happily, off the back of that…
Scalability and performance. Why we need to stay abreast of technology James Blizzard 02/11/2016 Software developers often work on personal projects outside of normal working hours, not so much because they are workaholics, but…
How we use AWS to manage our application services James Blizzard 27/02/2016 At the end of last year our flagship product Twine completed a migration. From Amazon to… Amazon. Perhaps I should…
Moving to a SaaS model with Symfony James Blizzard 13/01/2015 For the past few months Browser has been working hard on the development of an internal intranet and HR product.…
The Elasticsearch technology behind Mondottica Hub James Blizzard 13/02/2014 A few days ago we shared a blog post introducing Hub, the web-based document portal we built for Mondottica. The tool is…
