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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 […]

It’s been over a week since I started a new job at Automation Logic as a Consulting Engineer. I have to say I could not be happier with what I’ve seen so far! Just to set the context, I left a relatively comfortable position in a big corporation, where I had been for almost ten […]

Looking for a fresh perspective on Hybrid-Cloud? Check out the below video of Automation Logic's Founding Partner Kris Saxton, presenting alongside our valued client the Ministry of Justice at 2017's DevOps Enterprise Summit.

In our recent blog - ‘Strength in Diversity’, we shared our pride at Automation Logic’s inclusive and diverse culture. Our people embody our company values; Curiosity, Humility, Integrity and collaboration and building a great place to work is top of AL’s agenda to support happy employees, motivated and inspired to deliver best-in-class solutions to our Clients.

Following our recent presentation showcasing Automation Logic’s collaboration with the Ministry of Justice, the first of our three part blog series explored Hybrid Cloud as a mixture of private and public cloud and framed this more as a predicament than a strategy.  Now, in our second post, we’ll explore the other main type of Hybrid Cloud: the broker or abstraction layer, which we’ll refer to as ‘broker-based Hybrid Cloud’.  We’ll expose this as an over-engineered fantasy that delivers perpetually reduced choice and introduce our simpler alternative: Multi-Cloud.

Automation Logic were delighted to present with our Client, David Rogers from the Ministry of Justice, this week at the Central Government Business and Technology event (CGBT). CGBT is the UK’s leading event dedicated to sharing best practice, emerging trends and innovations across the Civil Service.

Today’s triggering of Article 50 is a significant milestone in the UK’s journey to exiting the European Union. Brexit poses complex challenges for businesses including the impact to the workforce and this got us thinking about the value of diversity in the workplace.