This year we held our third ‘Engine Room Live’ conference for the Product & Technology teams at the FT. It being the third time we have held this we had some previous learnings to bear in mind. The ‘original’ Engine Room…

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Oct 19, 2017

Serverless meetup at the FT

by Greg Cope

The FT hosted it’s second London Serverless meetup on Wednesday 11th October. Around 60 people from across London came to hear about Serverless in the FT’s Conference Suites.

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Oct 2, 2017

Constructive sloppiness

by Laurie Boyes

Tl;dr For hackathons and things, insecure database solutions can save you a big wodge of time and Chrome extensions are a very versatile tool.

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Sep 18, 2017

A Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for Polyfill.io

by Alice Bartlett

We’ve just published two new legal documents to the hosted version of the polyfill service, Polyfill.io. If you’re hosting your own version of the polyfill service, these documents don’t affect…

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Nov 17, 2016

Removing the Tester Safety Net

by Gareth Thomas

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Nov 10, 2016

FT.com — 11 facts

by Matt Chadburn

We switched on the new ft.com as the default for our customers on 5 October.

Here’s eleven interesting software engineering facts about it.

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Oct 21, 2016

The case for accessibility

by Laura Carvajal

At the Financial Times we’ve recently released a new version of our website, FT.com. “Next FT”, as we’ve come to know it, is now the default experience for our users, and so far it’s proving to be a great one: It’s faster, it’s…

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Oct 18, 2016

The Year of Lightning

by Antigoni Tsouri

Approximately a year has passed since Salesforce announced the new Lightning experience. And what a year for Salesforce! At first I thought ‘this is going to take a while, there’s going to be a learning curve, probably known bugs to deal with’…

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Oct 4, 2016

Adventures with Neo4j and Timetrees

by Laurie Boyes

Update: Since writing this blog I’ve learnt that there may be a better approach to this problem. These days, Neo4j allows you to make indexes on numeric properties and run range queries that use the index. We can take…