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What A Year…
This time last year I’d just nicely returned to work full time after my second son started school. Not an unusual situation, but to make matters more interesting, I was joining my own company full time, for the first time.
annasutton
15th May 2019
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DDoS protection and AWS
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and web application attacks are on the rise. Whilst I’m a firm believer that the ‘Cloud’ does simplify Infrastructure and Application builds and deployments, it unfortunately can make it easier to leave key application endpoints open to attack and security being compromised.
James Smith
1st May 2019
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What is Serverless?
Hello, I’ve recently gone serverless and wanted to share my experiences with you. Alongside the reasons why I chose to and why you may, or may not want to go serverless!
Jordan Finneran
14th March 2019
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Go! Shedsheet Reader
We love data at the DataShed, we are also very fond of the awesome things that can be done with the programming language Go.
Andy Thurgood
13th February 2019
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django-pwny
Much as we might lament their continued use, passwords are an important part of modern life. A part that seems only to be increasing in ubiquity; as I sit here I can see at least half a dozen devices, from this laptop to my television, that each require an inordinate number of passwords to keep them from turning into little more than novelty paperweights. So let’s take an inexplicable foray into the fun we have managing our little “memorized secrets”...
rogercoram
7th February 2019
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Load testing and Gatling.io
Load testing to 20k requests per second and beyond - how we did it!
James Smith
5th February 2019
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Leeds data firm wins contract to deliver a national gambling self-exclusion scheme
Data services firm, The Data Shed, has won a major contract with GAMSTOP, the central scheme that allows people to exclude themselves from online gambling websites, leading to an extra ten jobs being created at their Leeds office.
annasutton
30th January 2019
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How to create your first Angular 6 application in less than 5 minutes
Get the ball rolling with a simple Angular 6 web application running locally on your machine in less than 5 minutes.
Sam Bowen-Hughes
2nd January 2019
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The Data Shed is growing!
We are looking for a commercial interior supplier to help us fit out and move into our extended offices while retaining the great working environment that has already been created. We will require additional office furniture in keeping with what we already have as well as the construction of additional meeting rooms on one of the floors.
Steph Varley
21st December 2018
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An Introduction to Polymer
Polymer is a JavaScript library that helps you create custom reusable HTML elements (web components), and use them to build performant, maintainable apps. Here, Jordan tells us more about why it's so useful.
Jordan Finneran
25th September 2018
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Got Any Code? Interview Advice for Software Engineers.
Here’s some advice from Ash, Software Engineer, following a round of (sometimes frustrating!) interviews.
AshleyMurphy
20th January 2017
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Continuous Integration with Python
Confession time… I missed something really important! Most CI tools don’t work too well with Python. Here’s something that’ll help you overcome some of the issues you’ll come across…
Ed Thewlis
3rd January 2017
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Announcing DataShed Labs event – getting hands-on with Apache Spark & Hadoop
In an effort to give developers a view of the tools and technologies that we think are worth trying, we’re hosting a series of hands-on events in Leeds
Ed Thewlis
17th February 2016
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Cloudera Director 2.0 – Truly cloud ready?
Cloudera seems to have made some huge leaps forward in terms of enterprise integration, workload automation and High Availability in Cloudera Director 2.0…
Ed Thewlis
22nd January 2016
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Why has the world gone Open Source Mad?
Open Source software seems to be taking over. But why? And what does Steve Ballmer think about this?
Ed Thewlis
5th January 2016
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Riding the Unicorn – Aligning Technology, Data & Analytics Strategies
Now that I’ve got the customary ‘unicorn’ reference out of the way in the title, down to the serious matter of discussing why, given that it’s so gosh-darned important, we seem to repeat the same mistakes when it comes to Technology, Data & Analytics.
Anthony Jozefek
17th December 2015
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How to increase the ROI of a data warehouse
Data warehouse projects are expensive!
Ed Thewlis
2nd December 2015
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“If we’d written this in Python we’d be done by now”
I’d never really had a ‘programming language of choice’. My first languages were SML and C; I wrote my final year project at University (badly) in Prolog; my first paying job was coding in Progress 4GL and I finally ended up writing predominantly in Java.
rogercoram
2nd December 2015
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