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At Automation Logic we put the needs of our customers at the front and centre of everything that we do. But, everyone says that, don’t they? To us teamwork isn’t theoretical it’s what we practice every day. When our engineers are on client site they are typically working as part of multidisciplinary, multi-vendor teams, collaborating […]

AL decided to take a ‘grow your own talent’ approach to sourcing top quality DevOps Engineers. To do this we partnered with one of the best trainers in the industry, created a unique syllabus and selected candidates from STEM backgrounds with the attitude and aptitude for DevOps. I got to catch up with him to […]

Today we’re conducting an interview with one of our senior engineers, George Cairns. George has been working with AL for around four years now and we’re catching up with him to talk about life as an engineer, how he’s found his time at the company and a little about his most recent client project. At […]

About Danish and Lily The first quarter of 2018 is off to flying start at AL with our latest DevOps Academy intake having joined us in January. We began the Automation Logic DevOps Academy last year as a unique way to equip graduates from STEM backgrounds with the skills they need to become DevOps Engineers. […]

DevOps is a new organisational model which attempts to better connect workers with the users of their products and services by foregoing the traditional grouping of people by function for a grouping by product or service. Anyone who has worked in a ‘tiger team’ or some other kind of task force, where people are drawn […]

At Automation Logic we are truly passionate about learning, so we recently launched an internal Mentoring Program that allows us to provide everyone in the organisation with an additional resource to maximise their learning. The mentees are given the opportunity to regularly spend time with a senior in the organisation who has the knowledge or the […]

Having an automated deployment process, or Continuous Delivery can hugely speed up the time to get a “done” software released. Blue-Green Deployment, as one of the techniques being used in it, can reduce downtime by having two identical production environments. Only one of the two environments have live traffic going in at any time. For […]

The Academy A crucial part of AL’s business success is the ability to keep up with the changing technology landscape, from developing services that meet the needs of our clients to building and supporting a team of talented consulting engineers. Over the last 5 years there has been a shift towards DevOps leading to a […]

Most of us are familiar with the usual hierarchal organisation set up by an IT department, where an individual developer is at the bottom of the totem pole and has to escalate upwards to get any issues resolved. Something as simple as being able to create a Dev environment to test one’s work has to […]

Earlier this month a colleague and I attended the Partner Migration Workshop at Amazon’s Holborn (London) office. The format of this event was a showcase of AWS and chosen third-party products likely to be of use to firms undertaking a migration to the public cloud, followed by post-event socialisation. Around 30 people went along, so […]