Richard Parkins
Richard Parkins

Richard Parkins

Former consultant writing software solutions and platforms, I am now working in a very cool team at ComparetheMarket as an Applications Architect

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Richard Parkins
Nov 30, 2018 · 7 min read

Elastic search and Kibana in AWS with docker

As an architect I am starting to proof of concept a lot of potential solutions to…

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Richard Parkins
Nov 13, 2017 · 6 min read

Outside-in testing

To test or not to test — that is a question that has been answered long ago and I wont be going into the pros and cons (there are none)… Just Test.. Please… up Front!! ie .. TDD.. please!

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Richard Parkins
Nov 12, 2017 · 5 min read

MongoDB Europe 2017 — a narrative

I don’t go to many conferences. This is not something that I am steadily avoiding, its just that…

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Richard Parkins
Oct 31, 2017 · 2 min read

Life Of A Tech Lead

Balance

What is a good balance within a tech lead role? Is it 50% technical development and…

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Richard Parkins
Dec 8, 2016 · 3 min read

Mongo drivers.. choose your dialect wisely!

So… many moons ago in a galaxy far far away (actually London) was mongodb2016 which turned out to be a very informative day for me.

Once I had filled myself with copious amounts of bacon sandwiches (I must thank apenazzi for…

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