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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…
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    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…
    Go to the profile of Mark Cheverton
    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…
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    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…
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    Gareth Bragg
    Jan 7
    Managing unmanaged objects in C#

    Managing unmanaged objects in C#

    Solving a tricky race condition in three different ways
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    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…
    Go to the profile of Michael Upton
    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?
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    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.
    Go to the profile of Gareth Bragg
    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
    Go to the profile of Chris Smith
    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!
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    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…
    Go to the profile of Mark Cheverton
    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.
    Go to the profile of Gareth Bragg
    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…
    Go to the profile of Matthew Chappelow
    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
    Go to the profile of Chris Smith
    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.
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    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…
    Go to the profile of Matthew Flatt
    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…
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    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 —…
    Go to the profile of Sami Lamti
    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…
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    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…
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    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…
    Go to the profile of Mark Cheverton
    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…
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    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…
    Go to the profile of Christopher Heppell
    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.
    Go to the profile of Mark Cheverton
    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…
    Go to the profile of santiago arias
    santiago arias
    Sep 18, 2020
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