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A blog by the Financial Times Product & Technology department.

Team Building in the Time of Corona

Team Building in the Time of Corona

“Here we are now, entertain us…”
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Erin Ferguson
Oct 19
Reactive Research: Our Notes From the Last 6 Months

Reactive Research: Our Notes From the Last 6 Months

By the User Research team
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FT Product & Technology
Oct 7
A Guide to GitHub for Non-Developers

A Guide to GitHub for Non-Developers

What does it mean when someone says they ‘merged the code’?
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Jennifer Johnson
Oct 5
“Good luck with Citrix, you’re going to need it!”

“Good luck with Citrix, you’re going to need it!”

What happened when my team inherited an unloved but critical system
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Chris Hayes
Sep 28
Animating list reordering with React Hooks

Animating list reordering with React Hooks

By Tara Ojo
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FT Product & Technology
Aug 26
Gardening Day: how to run a tech debt cleanup day whilst being fully remote!

Gardening Day: how to run a tech debt cleanup day whilst being fully remote!

Just like financial debt, you have to be wise about the technical debt you are building up over time — and take action to clean it up!
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natashamccann
Aug 10
From spreadsheets to vulnerability management

From spreadsheets to vulnerability management

To identify security vulnerabilities more quickly the cyber security team at the FT is exploring building automation around security…
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lisafiander
Aug 3
How we improved reader habit by 39%

How we improved reader habit by 39%

Three key tips for creating habit forming features, from understanding the problem to using movement and change at the right time and in…
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Anna Lisinski
Jul 23
White Fragility at the Financial Times

White Fragility at the Financial Times

“I’ve been reflecting on how naïve I am on the subject of racism. How easy it is to ignore racism as a system, and think of it as a thing…
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Jennifer Shepherd
Jul 20
Unlocking value with durable teams

Unlocking value with durable teams

By Anna Shipman
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FT Product & Technology
Jun 29
Imagining a world without Active Directory

Imagining a world without Active Directory

What is AD?
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Chris Hayes
Jun 25
Rolling out a CMS mid-pandemic

Rolling out a CMS mid-pandemic

It was February 2020. Spark, our in-house Content Management System, was preparing for a major milestone — launching to all the news desks.
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Arjun
Jun 18
New model suggests investors use FT to make sense of pandemic market chaos

New model suggests investors use FT to make sense of pandemic market chaos

A new data model built to identify why people are accessing the Financial Times has highlighted the impact of recent market turmoil on how…
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Jono Hutchison
Jun 16
Starting at the FT during lockdown

Starting at the FT during lockdown

What it’s like to start a new job remotely.
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Emma Lewis
Jun 4
Beyond quizzes: Making and streaming a radio show for your team remote social

Beyond quizzes: Making and streaming a radio show for your team remote social

By Keran Braich, Alice Bartlett and Edd Sowden — Engineers in the Customer Products team
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Alice Bartlett
May 29
Our Journey with Capability Monitoring at the FT

Our Journey with Capability Monitoring at the FT

By Eric Anand
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FT Product & Technology
May 27
The advent of Change… API

The advent of Change… API

By Nikita Lohia
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FT Product & Technology
May 20
Enabling Data-Driven Decisions

Enabling Data-Driven Decisions

A story of building central Data Platform at the Financial Times using the latest technology trends.
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Elena Georgieva
May 17
Why and how we changed the way we support FT.com

Why and how we changed the way we support FT.com

Every day, FT.com publishes over 100 articles and about 25 developers work on maintaining and improving the site. One of these teams is…
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Tatiana Stantonian
May 13
Threat modelling at the FT

Threat modelling at the FT

By Lisa Fiander and Costas K
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CK
May 11
Communication tips with Deaf people at work

Communication tips with Deaf people at work

As part of Deaf Awareness Week, we at the FT would like to share some tips from our Deaf colleagues
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James Loveridge
May 8
Helping people learn sign language at work

Helping people learn sign language at work

How we encourage and provide a positive inclusive culture at the FT. A journey in one of the initiatives that is run regularly by staff.
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James Loveridge
May 6
Future Leaders: James Loveridge, Engineer

Future Leaders: James Loveridge, Engineer

As part of the Deaf Awareness Week (4th to 10th May 2020), we at the FT would like to share a few things to raise awareness, share some…
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FT Product & Technology
May 3
Making recruitment fair for people of colour

Making recruitment fair for people of colour

By Edd Sowden
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FT Product & Technology
May 1
Runbook doctors

Runbook doctors

By Rhys Evans
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FT Product & Technology
Apr 29
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