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One month at uSwitch

One month at uSwitch

I started as a Software Engineer at uSwitch a month ago and wanted to share some first impressions. I have been working as a developer for…
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Flora Harvey
Feb 15, 2019
Proposing an enhancement to Kubernetes: The story of a KEP

Proposing an enhancement to Kubernetes: The story of a KEP

Kubernetes is a big project — it has a wide range of users and a large number of people working on it at any given time. For simple…
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Joseph Irving
Jan 15, 2019
Making Prometheus more awesome with Thanos

Making Prometheus more awesome with Thanos

No it doesn’t delete half your metrics.
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Joseph Irving
Nov 21, 2018
Dynamic database credentials with Vault in Kubernetes

Dynamic database credentials with Vault in Kubernetes

How we at uSwitch managed to get all our applications to use short-lived database credentials without changing any of their code (almost).
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Joseph Irving
Sep 4, 2018
Multi-cluster Kubernetes load balancing in AWS with Yggdrasil

Multi-cluster Kubernetes load balancing in AWS with Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil is a tool we wrote to allow our services to be load balanced across multiple Kubernetes clusters running in AWS. It behaves as an…
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Joseph Irving
Aug 7, 2018
Speed Dating for Feedback

Speed Dating for Feedback

Falling out of love with Feedback
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Christian Blunden
Aug 7, 2018
Moving to a user-centric design model of product development

Moving to a user-centric design model of product development

Here at uSwitch we’re trying to change how we build product, and it’s a process that’s thrown up a fair few challenges. We’ve always done…
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Nick Frankcom
Jul 10, 2018
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