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In 2020, at that confusing time in life when the pandemic was a new word in our vocabularies,  I wrote a blog for Automation Logic that laid out our initial plan of how we would tackle the uncertainty of the initial stages of lock-down. We focused on 5 topics 1- Trusting and empowering people 2- […]

Every company has their own individual goals, but app migration will help you reach them.  By Adam Jasinski Workload Migration is an enablement for long term business sustainability. The drivers are typically derived from a long-term strategy, focusing on long-term goals such as Cost, Agility, Security and Governance.  The products that bring value to your […]

Throughout my transition from solo programming to DevOps consultant, I heard one consistent answer to the question of what DevOps actually is: “It’s a philosophy”.  Be it on my own prejudices, that answer has never seemed sufficient to me. It conjures an image of IT professionals smoking pipes and pondering “If a server crashes, but […]

2020, where do we even start?  It was a year that many may not want to dwell on, understandably. But for us it was a year that showed the strength and resilience of our team, so we’re looking back at the positives we discovered and the lessons we learnt.  Speaking to our Co-founder Kris Saxton […]

Last year AL had a pretty scary decision to make. Our DevOps Academy is one of the most successful aspects of the business, but we’d never tried to run one entirely remotely. The Academy is a 12-week intensive course for 6 STEM graduates to become junior DevOps Engineers. Usually, these graduates would spend 12 weeks […]

If you’re reading this then I guess you’re in the middle of refactoring your terraform code, trying to make it reusable, easier to maintain and actually be proud enough to share it with others! Writing reusable code in the form of modules can be a challenging task, so we will try to explain some basics […]

As a consulting engineer at AL, my bread and butter for the last three years has been the likes of Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins. These are all tools which are fairly simple in principle, but have plenty of quirks and unintended uses which can keep an engineer learning/engaged/frustrated for some time. For a couple of […]

As part of our 12-week DevOps Academy, our graduates are expected to group up in the last 2 weeks for their final projects. This is a large part of their mark and differs from their independent working as we assign them ‘a client’ to provide a real-life problem for them to look to solve. The […]

Before the events of COVID-19, we had planned to begin our 5th DevOps Graduate Academy. We’d begun hiring, following our usual process, with a group of potential candidates coming in for a group interview/team-building exercise, a test, and then breaking out into 121 interviews with members of our leadership team.  When the seriousness of the […]

We’ve always said we’re a technology company with a human touch, and right now is the perfect time to explain just how much technology can be used to help people.  Those companies who have utilised online collaboration tools effectively and taken the steps to allow remote working have a head start right now. But it […]