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On Wed 26 Jan, join us to fend off the January blues with a couple of stimulating online talks! Molly Pace (Developer and Business Development Executive) will describe the key things AI can learn from neuroscience, and why these two disciplines need each other in order to progress successfully. James Leftley (Lead Developer) will encourage you to stop worrying and embrace failure in order to build more resilient systems. 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 26 Jan 🕥 10:30-11:15
There is more information available to us than ever before, and it’s impossible for one person to make good use of it without help. Edward Brown recommends the Zettelkasten (translates to 'slip box') Method as a way of capturing and connecting what you learn for future reference, and shares some digital Zettelkasten tools to get you started.
On 8 December, the first users of the Payments Service that we're designing and developing with The Scottish Government successfully processed a batch of payments to citizens. In this post, Delivery Manager Steve Hunton describes the journey to achieving this clear, shared goal, and the ways of working that made it possible.
Apply now to be a Graduate Test Engineer at either our Newcastle or Leeds office to get your career in software off to the very best start! Find out more about all the great opportunities we offer to graduates and submit your application by Monday 10 January. Assessment and interview days are 12–14 January, so be sure to keep them free!
The recent Log4j vulnerability demonstrated once again how reliant we have become on open source projects and how exposed we are to their sustainability challenges. In this blog post, Colin Eberhardt argues that the solution is not to throw money at the problem, but instead to adopt the well-understood vehicle of CSR to wake businesses up to the shared responsibility we all have for maintaining this precious, yet fragile, resource.
Apply by Mon 10 Jan to be a Graduate Software Developer or a Graduate Test Engineer at either our Newcastle or Leeds office and get your career off to the very best start! You can find out more on our website about all the great opportunities we offer to graduates. We'll be running the Assessment Day (12 Jan) and Interview Days (13–14 Jan) virtually – be sure to keep them free!
In the third of his series of blog posts on Scrum Mastery, Frank Hubin shares the principles that make for productive teams, reassured stakeholders and well-run projects.
Having grown up in South Africa, Myra Cooke has been involved in movements and campaigns for equality since her early childhood—and it has helped to shape her career in the organisational development and talent space. In this Computing blog post, she shares six key Diversity & Inclusion learnings from her experiences to date—rich insights that she is now bringing to her role as Scott Logic's Chief Talent Officer.
Apache JMeter is open source software designed to load test applications, i.e. to put an application under load by making it do lots of work, for example by making lots of requests to it. In this post, Benedict Quinn takes you step by step through using JMeter to perform a simple load test hitting an HTTP endpoint.
You can tell powerful stories with data, but so often we are faced with raw data (albeit beautifully presented) and are left to create our own narratives. In this post, Colin Eberhardt creates an AI-driven running report for Strava athletes in order to demonstrate the power of GPT-3—a new and advanced language model—to construct engaging and unique stories from user-specific data.
