Delivering Greenfield Projects: Getting the Foundations Right
Rhys Smith - 20/05/2025
Without legacy constraints, greenfield projects allow teams to bake in modern practices, cloud-native architectures and a developer-first culture from day one. This article discusses how development teams can lay solid foundations when starting from scratch.
Data Products: Build vs Buy
Adam Brookes - 28/04/2025
As data continuous to become the biggest operational challenge for organisations, here we discuss the question of whether teams should look to build their own data solutions in-house or, instead, leverage pre-built third-party data products.
When You Don’t Need AI - Just Maths & Statistics
Richard Brown - 02/04/2025
In the rush towards AI and machine learning, it’s easy to forget that many business problems can be solved, often more transparently and robustly, with traditional mathematical and statistical techniques. This article highlights examples where statistical models or mathematical techniques can provide appropriate solutions in place of complex AI.
Legacy Data: Making Old Data Work for New Objectives
Adam Brookes - 04/03/2025
Legacy data – the information stored in outdated, and often siloed, systems – is frequently seen as a challenge. The challenge is how to make this old data serve new objectives - such as real-time analytics, customer 360 views, AI-driven insights - without a complete overhaul of legacy systems. Here we focus on different approaches that enable organisations to leverage legacy data in modern architectures.
Designing Scalable Data Architectures for AI
Mark Dyer - 29/01/2025
AI systems rely on vast amounts of data, where data quality is the biggest factor when ensuring model performance, however we must also carefully consider how well the data is structured, processed and made accessible. This article outlines the key strategies for designing data architectures that are robust, scalable and capable of supporting AI workloads in large organisations.
Technology Insights: Most Read 2024
Audacia - 16/12/2024
As we come to the end of 2024, we round up the most popular technical articles read by IT directors, CTOs and other tech leaders on our technology insights blog.
Managing Tech Debt within AI and Machine Learning Systems
Adam Brookes - 27/11/2024
For AI and machine learning systems, technical debt extends beyond code to include complex dependencies in data, models, and operational workflows. In this article, we explore how technical debt differs from traditional software engineering, and actionable strategies with MLOps that can help to manage tech debt effectively.
Thoughts from a Tester: Tips and Tricks to Avoid Development Team Horror Stories
Emily O'Connor - 19/11/2024
From our latest Halloween-themed Tech Talk, Principal Test Engineer, Emily, shares tips and tricks to avoid development team horror stories, sharing best practices testers can implement to ensure improved quality, effective communication and continuous improvement.
The Role of Generative AI in Legacy System Modernisation
Richard Brown - 24/10/2024
Generative AI is a technology that can help in simplifying legacy modernisation, offering solutions that go beyond what traditional techniques can achieve. This article explores how generative AI specifically enhances various stages of legacy modernisation, from automated code generation and documentation to testing and data migration.
Building User-Centric Products: You are Not Your Customer
Emily O'Connor - 16/10/2024
Emily focuses on a common pitfall among development teams - assuming they know their users because they understand the product. Emily highlights how development teams should step outside of their perspective and embrace user-centric design to improve product quality.