Welcome back to Enginears! This week, we sat down with Ryan French from YouView to give insight into what's going on behind the scenes.What did we talk about?YouView’s software architecture, talk to us about the choices/decisions? CQRS etc, going from virtual to containers, what challenges come with that? What challenges or ambiguity come with streaming? Team dynamics and YouView mission, and platform engineering.Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Welcome back to Enginears in 2021! To start off we sat down with the team at Football Index to give insight into what's going on behind the scenes.What did we talk about?Talking about building production-ready distributed systems, Mobbing, Trunk-based development, Pairing, etc. Kotlin/Node.js - Frontend builds and customer experience and more!Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrClinton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintonalexander/  & https://github.com/ClintonioRhiad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhiad-jaffar/Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

We’re exploring the journey of a travel meltdown in March and April of this year and how Loveholidays move their contact services to Twilio and re-invent the customer experience.Plus a general overview of exploring the business a bit more."We're the biggest travel company you've never heard of!"What did we discuss?Two-sided marketplace. Similar team structure. Matrix organisation of "what" and "how" with OKRs to align. Teams self organise in process & tech, but migrating from 90% Java. Hosted & using a lot of GCP products.Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr  Host: Elliot Kipling: https://bit.ly/3i1KIYM Editor: Kane Hunter: https://bit.ly/2Vij5kD Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Welcome back to Enginears! We're super excited for you to listen to our chat with Armando Vieira from Hazy.What did we discuss? What is synthetic data? What variables of data are you looking at and what’s their relationship? How do you model this data? How do you measure the quality and utility of synthetic data? How can you help banks/fintechs innovate faster? What does this actually mean?Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr  Host: Elliot Kipling: https://bit.ly/3i1KIYM Editor: Kane Hunter: https://bit.ly/2Vij5kD Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This week, we're delighted to have sat down with Julien from ZOE.What did we discuss? Who are ZOE? What’s the mission? COVID symptom case study. Walking us through DNA analysis to ML to building products and apps for millions of customers. Where do Science and Technology meet? Where should we expect to see your products? How do Data Science and Engineering meet at ZOE? What technical challenges are you trying to solve?Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr  Host: Elliot Kipling: https://bit.ly/3i1KIYM Editor: Kane Hunter: https://bit.ly/2Vij5kD Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In this episode, we were lucky enough to sit down with Tomás Sabat at Grakn Labs.  What did we talk about? Who are Grakn? Drug Discovery and Robotics – Tell us more?! Why is community and maintaining  “opensource at heart” so important to Grakn Labs? What challenges come with that? Knowledge Graphs – buzz or not? You call Grakn a knowledge graph, a knowledge base, and a database – is it all three? How do you define a knowledge graph at Grakn?  Grakn is the only database in the world that can do reasoning at the database/conceptual level. Graql – Grakn’s query language – is a 5th generation query language. Grakn is the database for complex problems – abstracting away the complexity to enable users to do more with the data they have and will have. Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr  Host: Elliot Kipling: https://bit.ly/3i1KIYM Editor: Kane Hunter: https://bit.ly/2Vij5kD Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In this episode of the Enginears Podcast, we're thrilled to have sat down with Ian Fuller and Luke Smith from Freetrade.What did we discuss? Simplifying event-sourcing, why Freetrade event-source, breaking down use-cases for even-sourcing and streaming data, what it's like to be an engineer at Freetrade, values of the Freetrade engineering team and SRE, Observability and monitoring to coming to the app. Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr  Host: Elliot Kipling: https://bit.ly/3i1KIYM Editor: Kane Hunter: https://bit.ly/2Vij5kD Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

We're delighted to be joined by Bob Gregory from Cazoo once again!What did we discuss? One year on with Cazoo. Numerous investment rounds meant Cazoo reached £1Billion+ valuation and the first UK company to achieve this. In October 2019, Bob talked us through Cazoo’s model and what they were looking to do. In October 2020, sitting at home during a pandemic we checked to see what’s happened in a year and got into serverless/observability.If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!  Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr  Host: Elliot Kipling: https://bit.ly/3i1KIYM Editor: Kane Hunter: https://bit.ly/2Vij5kD Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In this episode, we're excited to share our chat with Neil Johnson at Element. What did we discuss? Who Element/Matrix are, why are they open-source, and what it means, what's their mission, how are they built, and an interesting chat about Twitter!  Want to see more? Check out: Gitter design session: https://bit.ly/35Gylfk Social Dilemma panel with Amandine: https://bit.ly/35zGodU  If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!  Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr  Host: Elliot Kipling: https://bit.ly/3i1KIYM Editor: Kane Hunter: https://bit.ly/2Vij5kD Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

We're thrilled to have sat down with Kevin Holditch from FORM3 for this episode.What did we discuss? Who are FORM3, what “Cloud-native” payments are, 4 years of hiring talent globally “avoiding the commuter belt of London”, hiring tech-agnostic engineers, Terraform beginners to masters and why IaC and Terraform?If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!  Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr  Host: Elliot Kipling: https://bit.ly/3i1KIYM Editor: Kane Hunter: https://bit.ly/2Vij5kD Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.