Data engineering tech at Unruly

Data engineering began at Unruly with a product experiment as with many of the products we build. As an…

Hierarchical Java Configuration

Hard-coding secrets in application code is not ideal.

It makes rolling them hard by coupling them to an artifact, and is not particularly secure, if the artifact itself is compromised.

Lights are out down memory lane (part 1)

Lessons from reflecting on how my lack of memories affect life

Take a moment to think back to your childhood… picture a memory… describe it in as much detail as you can… How vivid is it? Can…

Experiments in making my role redundant: from Team Test Lead to Team Member

Getting started in machine learning

Someone at work recently asked me about getting started in the field of machine learning…

Detecting when you’re in IntelliJ

How do you make your tests aware if you’re running them from your IDE or not? That’s what I’ve been wrestling with, and there were some surprising results, so I thought it would be worth sharing.

A boomerang and an orange

Unruly’s approach to making both tactical and strategic progress

Since I joined Unruly as a Product Manager in February 2016, there has been a near-permanent battle between making progress towards what I’ll loosely…

Unruly — we’re excited to be hiring (again)

I’ve been involved in agile software development for over 17 years, since I was a reviewer for the first edition of “XP Explained” (thanks for the opportunity Kent!). I’ve had successes, I’ve had failures, but I’ve only had a few places where I felt I…

Why work at Unruly?

What do you picture when you think of a “normal” software development team in London in 2018?

You might imagine a wide expanse of open-plan office or maybe cubicles, where teams are directed from the top down and measured against project plans with milestones…