After recently attending Kanban Management Professional I and II training, I got some useful new language to help me explain some of the underlying instincts that I have around typical project stumbling blocks. I want to share a few of the “a-ha”…
Here’s what we’ve read this week while waiting for the rain to go away and for the sun to return.
Between ice cream licks and trying to subtly wipe away sweat drips, here’s some stuff we’ve read this week.
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It was created by James Long to format modern JavaScript and JSX, inspired by Go’s gofmt and Reason’s refmt tools. It now supports typed JavaScript flavours such as Flow and TypeScript as well as CSS, Less…
ReasonML, created by the same person that originally created React, is a new syntax for the OCaml language that is meant to be welcoming to JavaScript developers. Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both…
Elm is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript. It competes with projects like React as a tool for creating websites and web apps. Elm has a very strong emphasis on simplicity, ease-of-use, and quality tooling.
Having the build and deployment pipeline as code (PaC) builds on the benefits of having Everything as Code (EaC), e.g. immutable version control, audit trails,peer reviews, textual representation, and knowledge sharing. Furthermore, allowing the…
As the name would suggest, this is all about defining cascading stylesheets in JavaScript. It provides an abstraction of CSS using JavaScript as a language to describe styles in a declarative and maintainable way. The CSS in JS is compiled either…
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) refers to the definition and management of IT infrastructure (e.g. networks, virtual machines, load balancers, firewalls, etc.) in a declarative manner, i.e as source code. Declarative IaC has the powerful property of…
We are very proud to announce that Red Badger has been shortlisted for the ‘Transformation & Consultancy: Impact’ in the BIMA 2018 awards.
Extremely high levels of automation in the area of infrastructure provisioning and container orchestration have recently enabled a capability we are calling microplatforms - small, and fully capable platforms for microservices applications. This is…
As is the way for every student in Year 10 at Sydenham School, I had to go out on two weeks of work experience. After research into various businesses and emails to and from several contacts, I eventually decided that Red Badger would be my choice…
Headless Browser Testing is a way to run a browser in a headless environment. Essentially, running Chrome without chrome! It brings all modern web platform features provided by Chromium and the Blink rendering engine to the command line. Other…
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed.
Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) are well-known practices which are become more widely used by tech teams to deliver software. Quite often, however, these pipelines only go as far as a QA or Staging environment where code…
With football going home to France, tennis done, and the weather taking a cooler turn, we’ve had more time to get some reading done. Here’s what has sparked our interest this week.
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.
Once again sunshine and the World Cup has been on the brain in between us reading the news. This week though, we’re super proud to have been named one of the top 25 SME Culture Leaders by Real Business and Breathe HR. But enough about us, here’s…
Last week I attended Ampersand conference in Brighton for the day. It was a real treat, lots of new ideas, lovely people and rounded off with a couple of cold beers.