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Srinivas Nali

Code Speed Matters: Leveraging Go Benchmarks for Continuous Improvement

Elevating Your Go Code’s Speed and Efficiency

Jan 31

Code Speed Matters: Leveraging Go Benchmarks for Continuous Improvement

Jan 31

Chris Poel

Why Pair Programme?

As with all things ‘agile’, it’s a mindset. Pair programming is achieved with two developers programming on one workstation, solving one…

Oct 26, 2023

Why Pair Programme?

Oct 26, 2023

Chris Poel

River Island, Tech Connect ’23 : How to job.

I spoke at River Island’s Tech Connect this week about ways of working. What I said will still be relevant next year so it’s worth writing…

Oct 20, 2023

River Island, Tech Connect ’23 : How to job.

Oct 20, 2023

Srinivas Nali

Guide to install JMeter with AWSMeter plugin

Oct 8, 2023

Oct 8, 2023

Srinivas Nali

AWS Lambda load testing with JMeter

In River Island robust QA practice, we’ve embarked on an exciting journey to optimise the performance of AWS Lambda functions within our…

Oct 8, 2023

AWS Lambda load testing with JMeter

Oct 8, 2023

Chris Poel

Building a team and culture to manage the transition to a modern commerce architecture

I spoke on a panel at the Internet Retailing Expo at Excel today, and thought I’d document the chat. I’ve been on a few stages in my time…

Oct 21, 2022

Building a team and culture to manage the transition to a modern commerce architecture

Oct 21, 2022

Chris Poel

How good engineers become great

Being a great engineer isn’t the point of life. I believe the point of human life is to enjoy it, and to do so while not impeding on the…

Sep 14, 2022

How good engineers become great

Sep 14, 2022

Chris Poel

How to handle Technical debt? pt2

In part 1 I suggested that the umbrella term ‘technical drag’ be broken down, to better reflect where it came from, and therefore how it…

Jul 25, 2022

How to handle Technical debt? pt2

Jul 25, 2022

Chris Poel

How to code better

We all aspire to code better. If you don’t aspire to code better then you’re not a coder which — if you’re not paid to code — is fine, but…

Jun 24, 2022

How to code better

Jun 24, 2022

Chris Poel

Stop hiring leaders. Start growing them.

We’ve been hiring at River Island (we’re always hiring in River Island) my department’s been hiring ‘tech leads’ to be precise. We forgive…

Jun 10, 2022

Stop hiring leaders. Start growing them.

Jun 10, 2022

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Love fashion. Love River Island, Tech. With over 70 years of fashion retailing experience, we maintain several core functions in our original PLSQL, but we rock into the future with microservices using a stack of GoLang, React, Lambdas & everything else on our Tech Radar

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Chris Poel

After a life of startups, and then financial services (to prove he could play ‘grown-ups’), Chris is now Head of Development at River Island

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