#TechTalks

Todays guests discuss Game Jam, an event where teams will design and develop a new game within a fixed period of time, usually restricted to specific themes. Zoe is joined by Softwire's Project Manager, Matt, and Senior Technical Leads, Harry and Michael to talk about what they love about Game Jams and how Softwire has gotten involved.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Matt barnfield, Michael Kearns and Harry Cummings

Game Jam

On this episode, Zoe is joined by authors of Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus and Microprofile, John Clingan and Ken Finnigan. Red Hat has developed Quarkus as a lightweight modern tool for cloud-native application development, improving app runtime speed and performance.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with John Clingan, Ken Finnigan and Olly Levett

'Kubernetes Native Microservices'

13 million people in the UK alone are affected by disabilities. It is essential that we think about, talk about, and implement accessibility in our designs as not to leave millions of users unable to use new technologies to their fullest. Zoe is joined by Softwire's Software Developer, Kat, and Technical Lead, Sam to talk about why digital accessibility is so important and what developers can do to make their systems more accessible.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Katherine Langford and Sam Collard

Digital Accessibility

In our latest #TechTalks episode, Zoe Cunningham is joined by Christie Wilson, software engineer at Google, to explore the importance of continuous delivery, how it started as continuous integration during the 90s, and how to use it now to improve your work. 

PLUS... Visit our website to enter our competition below for a free copy of book: https://tinyurl.com/continuous-delivery-CD (ends 24/12/21)

Christie Wilson is a software engineer at Google, with over a decade of experience dealing with complex deployment environments and high-criticality systems. She is a frequent speaker on CI/CD at conferences including KubeCon, OSCON, QCon, and PyCon. At Google, she built internal productivity tooling for AppEngine, bootstrapped Knative, and created Tekton, a cloud-native CI/CD platform built on Kubernetes. She is the author of her new book, Grokking Continuous Delivery.

Why is the continuous delivery approach important?

The year 2000 saw the boom of 'dot-com' and the growing need for services in software development. In this episode, Zoe Cunningham is joined by the Founders of Softwire; Phil Marsden and Dan Shavick, to discuss how Softwire started and how we've got to where we are now.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Phil Marsden and Dan Shavick

The Making of Softwire

How do project specifications dictate when and how you use agile or waterfall workflows? In this episode, Zoe Cunningham is joined by Delivery Manager Tom Riley and Technical Consultant Harry Cummings, to discuss project management methodologies and the differences between agile and waterfall workflows.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Tom Riley and Harry Cummings

Agile vs Waterfall

Building a strong community in the workplace is important for staff morale and collaborative work projects. In this episode, Zoe Cunningham is joined by Senior Software Developer, Sarah Binney, and Senior Technical Lead, Michael Kearns to talk about the puzzling community at Softwire.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Sarah Binney and Michael Kearns

Dreamcatcher: Puzzling at Softwire

"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are we busy about?" (Henry David Thoreau) In this episode, Zoe Cunningham shares some insight into the importance of prioritization, in both what and how quickly, technical teams should be building products and services. Zoe is joined by Softwire Senior Project Manager, Adam Smith, and Senior Product Manager, Sona Hathi.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Adam Smith and Sona Hathi

Prioritization

Managing your mental health can be more challenging when your working environment significantly changes. 60% of adults in the UK are now working from home and 8.4 million workers have been furloughed. The Mental Health Foundation discovered that 24% of office workers' mental health has suffered since COVID-19. In this episode, Zoe Cunningham discusses how companies can help support their employees manage their mental wellbeing. Zoe is joined by Softwire Tech Lead, Sarah Binney, HR Administrator, Esme Chant, and Software Developer, Marcus Gardiner.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Sarah Binney, Esme Chant and Marcus Gardiner

Mental Health in the Workplace

How can the private sector learn from digital processes and innovations that the government uses to help build better software that meets user needs? In this episode, Zoe Cunningham shares some insight into how the government technology landscape and changed over the years, and what we can learn from that. Zoe is joined by Softwire Senior Product Manager, Sona Hathi, and Delivery Manager, Tom Riley.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Sona Hathi and Tom Riley

Digital Innovation in Government

"Good design is not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start" (Susan Kare). In this episode, Zoe Cunningham shares some insight into design skills and techniques, and how developers can work best with designers. Zoe is joined by Softwire UX Designers, Jake Turner and Ariana Ocampo.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Ariana Ocampo and Jake Turner

What is 'good design'?

Knowing that you have data and can use it is one thing, but how do you get the best from it? In this episode, Softwire Head of Consulting and director, Jonathon Artus, and Technical Lead, Rob Owen, share some insights into how you should approach data before delving into using it for machine learning and other functions. Read the full transcript here: https://www.softwire.com/insights/data-engineering/

What is Data Engineering and how can it help your business?

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and a few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it" (CISO, Stéphane Nappo). Because of this, spending to combat cyber-crime is over $100 billion annually. In this episode, Zoe Cunningham shares some insight into the best practices for maintaining a high level of cyber security in your organisation. Zoe is joined by Softwire Senior Technical Leads, James Griffiths and David Edey.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with James Griffiths and David Edey

Cyber Security

In the UK, the gender pay gap is 16%, which means for every £1 a man earns, a woman will earn 84p. In this episode, Zoe Cunningham shares some insight into why it's important for businesses to report their pay gap data to the government for analysis. Zoe is joined by Softwire Senior Designer Claire Waterworth and Head of Sales Yemi Olagbaiye.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Yemi Olagbaiye and Claire Waterworth

Gender Pay Gap

Using the Cloud can greatly enhance your business efficiency, however, it's worth noting that switching to the Cloud can also simply change the types of problems you face, rather than eliminating them entirely. In this episode, Zoe Cunningham shares some insight into the basics of why, when and how we should be using Cloud. Zoe is joined by Softwire Senior Consultant, Daniel Waters and DevOps Lead, Usman Iqbal.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Usman Iqbal and Daniel Waters

Why, when and how should we use the Cloud?

Anti-Black racism is often seen as a U.S only issue, and that can get in the way of making lasting change against the ongoing systemic racism that Black people experience here in the UK as well. Zoe is joined by Business Development Manager, Helen Jeffers, and Head of Sales Yemi Olagbaiye to discuss what we can do to help break down systemic racism from an individual level to a business level.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Helen Jeffers and Yemi Olagbaiye

Breaking systemic racism

Jon has approached two of Softwires cloud experts, asking for their help in solving a coding challenge, to try and stop his 1-year-old daughter from tampering with their new home automation heating system. Zoe is joined by Head of Consulting and co-presenter for today's episode, Jon Artus. Both Zoe and Jon discuss Kubernetes and FaaS (Function as a Service) with Technical Lead, Olly Levett, and Senior Technical Consultant, Max Daniline.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham & Jon Artus
with Olly Levett & Max Daniline

Kubernetes & FaaS

This is our third #TechTalks episode on Cloud. In this episode, Zoe Cunningham talks about the top 10 stand out things we've found while we've been developing cloud platforms for our clients. Zoe is joined by Softwire Tech leads, Ben Below and Olly Levett, and DevOps Lead, Usman Iqbal.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Usman Iqbal, Ben Below and Olly Levett

Ten lessons on cloud

More and more medical services can be delivered in a tech-enabled way, increasing access to medical attention and treatments. Zoe is joined by Softwire Tech Leads, Sarah Binney and Catalin Ursachi to discuss Softwire's work for Quro Medical, a South African start-up that provides a service to allow doctors to monitor their patients from home.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Sarah Binney and Catalin Ursachi

Quro Medical: providing remote care

Mobile and web development are becoming increasingly similar fields with cross-platform applications taking centre stage as the new standard for heightened user experience. Zoe is joined by Softwire's Software Developer, Philippa Hack, and Technical Lead, Sam Collard to discuss how mobile development has skyrocketed in the era of mobile applications and the introduction of iOS and Android platforms.

Hosted by Zoe Cunningham
with Phillipa Hack and Sam Collard

Mobile development

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