You Are Paid To Fail
In this blog, Simeon Souttar, Head of Delivery talks about ‘failing fast, learning fast’.Failing is not the opposite of success.It is easy to ignore failure, just as it's easy to create a culture that only rewards success. Failure is part of the journey to success.You cannot learn something new without failure, and you cannot win a major football tournament until you have learned something about who your team is, and what your strengths and weaknesses are.As the Agile Manifesto states, ‘PEOPLE ARE OUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET’ and people make mistakes, we are humans. It is important to remember your values, learn from mistakes and accept that through failure we succeed.
Simeon Souttar
22nd July 2021
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Snowflake in Azure using Terraform – How we fixed a client problem by creating our first Auto-Ingest Snowpipes!
Data Architect and Tech Lead at The Data Shed, George Verney, has been working with one of our clients, a retail, surveillance and IoT provider based in Europe, migrating their services into the cloud.In this blog, he shares his experience of resolving a challenging problem by implementing Auto-Ingest Snowpipes in Azure using Terraform.
George Verney
2nd July 2021
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Mental Health Awareness Week
The wellbeing of our Shedders has always been a priority for us, and there are lots of things we do on a daily basis to ensure everyone feels supported at work - and outside of it. In this blog post we’ve outlined our approach to mental wellbeing, and included some tips you could adopt to build a happy and healthy team all year round.
Steph Varley
10th May 2021
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Our route back to the office, building a hybrid working environment
When we look back to last March, it was what can only be described as a whirlwind. Everyone just grabbed what they thought they needed and set up a makeshift home office, slowly gaps began to emerge as we realised that this wasn’t going to be a short term arrangement and we’d need to prepare.
Steph Varley
7th May 2021
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How to build a team from scratch
Have you ever interviewed someone for a team that doesn’t exist yet, in a fast-growing company you don’t yet work for?
Bianca Spruit
12th April 2021
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A day in the life of a Data Analyst
We caught up with Tom Wardell to find out more about what life is like as a Data Analyst. Tom joined The Data Shed in the midst of the pandemic and has settled in the team completely virtually, so we’re looking forward to welcoming him to The Shed when that day finally comes!
Tom Wardell
22nd March 2021
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A day in the life of a Data Engineer
Ever wondered what a day in the life of one of a Senior Data Engineer really looks like? We caught up with Shedder Mike to find out what an average day here at The Data Shed involves and how he’s settled into life working from home.
Michael Park
19th February 2021
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Journey Of A Shedder
We caught up with @Seb Martin, Data Engineer here at The Data Shed, to find out more about his journey to becoming a Shedder. Seb joined us from Northcoders with almost no previous experience in coding before completing his course, and is now an integral part of the team working on some of our biggest projects.
Seb Martin
4th February 2021
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Putting the PA in PAndemic
Steph reflects on her time working as an EA during a national lockdown. Covering the ups and downs of working from home and the importance of team wellbeing, she highlights what it really means to be a modern day assistant in a growing tech company.
Steph Varley
21st January 2021
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The Data Shed Values
Here at The Shed we’re just as passionate about the culture we work in as we are about the tech itself, because who wants to be miserable at work? There’s more to Shedders than the fact that we all, usually, work under one unconventional (shed) roof - our company values are at the heart of everything we do.We caught up with Clare, Head of People here at The Data Shed, to delve deeper into some of our guiding principles.
Clare Dobson
15th January 2021
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Goodbye to 2020!
Our CEO, Anna Sutton, has said goodbye to 2020 with a review of what has been the most unusual year. A year of disruption and uncertainty, but also a year where we've seen incredible acts of kindness and collaboration.
annasutton
23rd December 2020
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Journey to a Data Engineer
Last year, Josh decided his career needed to take a different path and signed up to Northcoders. He's now an established member of The Data Shed and we've loved reading about his journey in this blog post.
josh newman
12th September 2019
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Leeds Digital Festival 2019
During one of the most exciting weeks in tech here in Leeds, 2 of our team took to the stage to share how they successfully dealt with extraordinary volumes of requests on the Application Load Balancer.
Stew Norriss
20th June 2019
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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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