A/B Testing in Javascript with Canvass
A/B testing is a popular method for testing changes. Here’s how we do it with the Canvass library.
6 minute read
How we broke Hadoop by optimising services
We’ve been optimising the allocation of services in our Hadoop cluster recently. It turns out a quiet Hadoop gateway server is a bad one.
3 minute read
Modernising our Application with TypeScript
How we used TypeScript to successfully refactor a large business critical codebase.
17 minute read
Implementing The Schema Registry
Article describing the use of a Schema Registry, why we need it and takes a look at how we did it.
6 minute read
How do we increase the numbers of women in technology based careers?
How to tackle the technology industry’s disheartening gender imbalance from the perspective of a female software engineer.
11 minute read
Overlay network performance testing
How do you decide on an overlay network to use for the next generation platform at SkyBet?
10 minute read
Lessons Learned for Incident Commanders
Incident command is a reasonably new area of focus for SBG. In a nutshell we have a nominated technical person known as the Incident Commander (IC) who gives direction in order to resolve an incident and restore service as quickly as possible.
This blog post contains some of the insights and ‘lessons learned’ by our teams from their experiences in live incidents and exercises (known internally as fire drills) as they work to improve their skills and reduce our Mean Time To Resolution
13 minute read
Squad Health Checks
Enabling Continuous Improvement through regular introspection by the teams themselves.
10 minute read
Sky Betting & Gaming's January 2017 Tech Talks
Join Adele, Mark, Tom, Mark, Adam & John for our January 2017 edition of Sky Bet Tech Talks on Retrospectives, AGILE Programme Management, Discovery & Experimentation and Squad Health Checks
2 minute read
Towards a realtime streaming architecture
Outline of the streaming architecture we are standardising around in the data tribe at Sky Betting & Gaming
7 minute read