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The Evolution of Tech at Redgate
The Evolution of Tech at Redgate
Redgate’s Technology stack has morphed. A few years ago, if you were a developer at Redgate you probably spent most of your time working…
Jeff Foster
Jan 15
Call to action for CIOs and CTOs — use your laptop refresh #laptopsforkids
Call to action for CIOs and CTOs — use your laptop refresh #laptops...
Every year businesses across the UK refresh huge numbers of laptops for their employees. I’m calling on CIOs and CTOs across those…
Mark Cheverton
Jan 11
Redgate Code Club 2.0
Redgate Code Club 2.0
Back in March 2020 as schools in the UK closed, we started a weekly online code club for kids. 800 students and 1500 hours of learning…
Tim Dalton
Jan 8
What does a Software Engineering career look like at Redgate?
What does a Software Engineering career look like at Redgate?
There’s no “one right way” to build software, and there’s no “one right way” to grow your career in software either. That can make it hard…
Gareth Bragg
Jan 7
Managing unmanaged objects in C#
Managing unmanaged objects in C#
Solving a tricky race condition in three different ways
Mark Jordan
Jan 4
A guide to avoiding OKR pitfalls (with worksheet)
A guide to avoiding OKR pitfalls (with worksheet)
Redgate, like many other companies, use OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to help teams understand and describe their goals. And also like…
Michael Upton
Dec 18, 2020
What was the impact of Level Up Week 2020?
What was the impact of Level Up Week 2020?
What did Redgaters make of Level Up Week 2020, our virtual company L&D conference, and did it have the impact we were hoping for?
Chris Smith
Dec 15, 2020
How Focusing on Outcomes led to a Progression Framework
How Focusing on Outcomes led to a Progression Framework
We’ve recently shared about Redgate’s new Progression Framework, and how it’s helping folks at Redgate develop their skills and careers.
Gareth Bragg
Dec 15, 2020
Level Up Week 2020: How we evolved our internal tech conference for our remote-first world
Level Up Week 2020: How we evolved our internal tech conference for...
How we turned our internal tech conference into a virtual, global company event bringing Redgaters together to focus on L&D and reconnect
Chris Smith
Dec 8, 2020
How an ADR saved the day!
How an ADR saved the day!
Writing and share ADRs within your organization so that future teams can get an on-demand insight in how and why decisions were made!
Sami Lamti
Dec 4, 2020
Designing an ingeniously simple business
Designing an ingeniously simple business
In my formative years as a CTO, back when Basecamp was called 37 signals, I was hugely influenced by their 2006 book Getting Real which…
Mark Cheverton
Dec 2, 2020
Lessons Learnt from an Asynchronous Book Club
Lessons Learnt from an Asynchronous Book Club
Book clubs are a popular way for groups to work through a book or article together and share their insights.
Gareth Bragg
Nov 25, 2020
Identifying Design Patterns
Identifying Design Patterns
An important part of being able to discuss product design and architecture is having a common language, design patterns are a part of this…
Matthew Chappelow
Nov 24, 2020
Product Development Reteaming at Redgate
Product Development Reteaming at Redgate
In January Redgate will undertake another self-selection reteaming process. This post explains why we’ll be doing that and how we’ll do it
Chris Smith
Nov 20, 2020
How Redgate removed 50% of automated test code, and reduced test times by 30%
How Redgate removed 50% of automated test code, and reduced test ti...
The Redgate Change Control (RCC) team have been leveraging a new database provisioning tool, Spawn.
Eleanor Fuller
Nov 20, 2020
Development containers and databases — Gotta go fast
Development containers and databases — Gotta go fast
There’s something about the human condition that gives us a love of speed. Faster vehicles. Faster computers. Faster internet. We’ve been…
Matthew Flatt
Nov 20, 2020
… something on upping the number of meetings
… something on upping the number of meetings
In this blogpost I describe the advantages for a software team of having dedicated ‘chewing the fat’ time whilst working remotely, which…
TheCodeCleaner
Oct 22, 2020
Reflections on six months of mobbing
Reflections on six months of mobbing
The Guv’nors team (responsible for the Data Masker and Data Catalog products) has been mobbing extensively — in fact almost exclusively —…
Sami Lamti
Oct 16, 2020
Red, green… Reflect
Red, green… Reflect
“I am not okay…” — began my cry out for help on a Friday, after a restless night, due to an anxiety-inducing NY Times article about…
Lubos Michalic
Oct 13, 2020
Shallow learnings on Deep Learning
Shallow learnings on Deep Learning
I’m really enjoying the Deep Learning course from Andrew Ng on Coursera. I’d highly recommend it! This article gives the insights I got…
Jeff Foster
Oct 6, 2020
The interconnectedness of communications, architecture, and organisational design
The interconnectedness of communications, architecture, and organis...
CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos famously once stood up to the suggestion that employees should communicate more with his retort “No…
Mark Cheverton
Oct 6, 2020
… something on the case for automatic rebasing
… something on the case for automatic rebasing
In this blog I argue that as a developer working in a team, the more frequently you incorporate incoming changes the better — problems are…
TheCodeCleaner
Oct 2, 2020
Next.js development with instant dev-database provisioning
Next.js development with instant dev-database provisioning
Next.js has a fantastic development experience, but it can get complicated when you need a database. But things can be much easier…
Christopher Heppell
Oct 1, 2020
The four stages of the product lifecycle
The four stages of the product lifecycle
All product engineering is not the same.
Mark Cheverton
Oct 1, 2020
Testing database migrations
Testing database migrations
Database migrations help to keep database schema versioned, by documenting database changes in source control. But how should you test if…
santiago arias
Sep 18, 2020
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