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In March, around 70 people who joined Scott Logic as grads in the last couple of years gathered in Leeds for the inaugural Graduate Summit—a new, annual event comprising talks and workshops from experts across the business and beyond. Kay Coombes shares here the learnings from the summit that resonated with her the most as a Test Engineer.
WebAssembly is really starting to shine as a standalone runtime environment, as Colin Eberhardt explains in his latest post. In just 70 lines of code, Colin creates a lightweight, secure and fast WebAssembly-powered serverless platform – and takes you step by step through how to do it.
In his latest blog post, Darren Smith asks, "could using the cloud help your organisation reach net zero?" In light of research demonstrating that a move from on-premises to the cloud can lower the carbon footprint of a company's workloads by >90%, Darren explores the efforts cloud providers are making to achieve net zero—and he directs you to multiple resources they provide to help your company use the cloud to achieve the same.
Episode 2 of 'Beyond the Hype' is out! ‘Do you actually need a micro-frontend?’ asks Colin Eberhardt of his two guests—Dean Kerr (Lead Developer, Scott Logic) and Sam Hogarth (Senior Software Engineer, Tesco Bank). A relatively new architectural style for building web-based applications, micro-frontends are an extension of the popular microservices pattern. You can listen to the discussion here and find out which side of the fence Colin, Dean and Sam come down on—hype, or not hype? And subscribe on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-hype/id1612265563 🎧 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2BlwBJ7JoxYpxU4GBmuR4x 🎧 Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzM5NTE1MC9yc3M
Tomorrow morning, get a mid-week boost from a couple of stimulating online talks! Martha King will shed light on the history of encryption and how methods of encryption have changed over time. Simon Martin will talk about the creation of a UI that runs in browsers, which is powered by WebAssembly (compiled from Rust). These talks will give you a flavour of our learning culture at Scott Logic, where our consultants regularly share their insights through breakfast and lunchtime talks like these. We look forward to sharing them with you! 🗓️ Wed 6 April 🕥 10:30-11:15
“Will it help or hinder me from making an amazing product?” is the bottom-line question that you should ask yourself in deciding between a do-it-yourself approach and the adoption of third-party software. In this blog post, Oded Sharon sets out a range of criteria you should consider before choosing to take on a dependency.
To mark the end of Women’s History Month 2022, we gathered together with tea and cakes this morning at our offices to watch an insightful and inspiring talk by Dame Stephanie Shirley. In the talk, Dame Stephanie, aka Steve, shared her remarkable story of arriving in the UK as a Kindertransport refugee, facing frustration trying to build a career in the nascent tech industry, and then in 1962 founding one of Britain’s first high-tech companies—which only employed women. You can watch Dame Stephanie's talk over on our YouTube channel: 📺 https://youtu.be/yZxG0XNiGqw
At Scott Logic during Women’s History Month, we’ve been drawing inspiration from women pioneers in our industry who were born in Ukraine or were of Ukrainian heritage 🇺🇦. Today we celebrate Kateryna Yushchenko, born in 1919 in Chyhyryn, Ukraine. Her father was arrested in 1937 as a Ukrainian nationalist; when her mother went to make enquiries at the NKVD building, she was also arrested; both later died in the gulag. Refused admission to Kyiv University as a “daughter of enemies of the people", Yushchenko completed her degree in Uzbekistan. She achieved the position of Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, working on MESM, the first universally programmable electronic computer in the USSR and Europe. In 1955, Yushchenko created Address, one of the world's first high-level programming languages. Ideas and tools from the Address programming language can be found in many programming-related fields, such as abstract data types, object-oriented programming, functional programming, logical programming, databases and AI.
Tomorrow at 11:15am to round off Women’s History Month, we at Scott Logic will be watching a speech by software and equal rights pioneer Dame Stephanie Shirley, and you’re very welcome to join us! We’ve been given permission to share the speech in return for a donation to one of the charities she founded, Autistica. Although originally recorded for International Women's Day, the talk's focus on the history of the campaign for equal rights makes it a fitting way to round off Women's History Month. In her speech, Dame Stephanie tells her remarkable story: she escaped Nazi Germany and arrived in the UK as a Kindertransport refugee, and then educated herself through night school to achieve a job in the nascent software industry in the 1950s. Frustrated by hitting the glass ceiling time and again, she set up in 1962 one of Britain’s first high-tech companies—Freelance Programmers—which only employed women. Not only pioneers in software, the company also pioneered a whole range of working practices including flexible working and support for returners.
In the second of the four talks at Open Source Bristol tomorrow evening, Alex Birch (Lead Developer at Scott Logic) will give a talk on 'Reviving Google’s lost fluid engine'. We’ve all played a game with Box2D physics (e.g. Angry Birds). Google forked Box2D to add fluid simulation, but diverged irretrievably in the process. Can we salvage Google’s contributions, and bring both these C++ projects to the modern web using WebAssembly and TypeScript? Find out more about Open Source Bristol and book your place to attend in person or to watch the live stream: 🗓️ Wed 30 March 🕕 18:00–20:30 We organise Open Source Bristol in partnership with FINOS.
