#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?

"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'?

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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