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

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

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

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

Why we have 3 Mental Health First Aiders, and why you should too

Steph Varley 13th May 2019

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

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

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

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

Load testing and Gatling.io

Load testing to 20k requests per second and beyond - how we did it!

James Smith 5th February 2019

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

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