comparethemarket.com
comparethemarket.com
At comparethemarket.com, we believe in cross functional teamwork. Whether you’re a developer, tester or analyst, we strive to ensure everyone is heard. We believe your opinion counts, encouraging innovation and continuous improvement as a team and as an individual. Technology: Working with the latest development techniques, our approach to continuous delivery in a polyglot environment means we thrive on a new challenges in building scalable, sustainable solutions on a toolset that’s right for the job. Customers: Ultimately, we believe in happy customers. This culture is driven through the team constantly talking to the business about where the most value can be added in the development cycle so that the right features are delivered. comparethemarket.com was launched in 2006 and has rapidly grown over the past 9 years to become one of the UK’s leading price comparison websites. It provides customers with an easy way to make the right choice for them on a wide range of products including motor, home, life, travel and pet insurance as well as utilities and money products such as, credit cards and loans. More about what its like to work at comparethemarket.com and the roles we have available can be found at techjobs.comparethemarket.com
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Windows 10 IoT
Featuring Sandeep Kapalawai
Microsoft is making big investments in the Internet of Things (IoT). Earlier this week at Microsoft Convergence 2015, Satya Nadella outlined their investments for IoT across Windows and Azure that will provide a comprehensive IoT offering for their customers and partners. In parallel, at WinHEC...
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Workshop: PM2 to manage your micro service app & Keymetrics to monitor them
Featuring Alexandre Strzelewicz
Alexandre wrote PM2 two years ago. PM2 is a website manager for NodeJS that has been downloaded more than 1.2 million times. Now Alexandre and the team are building the company Keymetrics. It's an extension of PM2 and allows to monitor in realtime all your applications across numerous...
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Fluid development of mobile apps for IoT in JavaScript
Featuring Alex Jonsson
JavaScript has great opportunities for IoT. Dynamic languages like JavaScript make for a fast and “tinker-friendly” workflow.
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Forging static sites with Metalsmith
Featuring David Boyer
With the Node.js module, Metalsmith, you will learn the advantages of static site generation. David will share with you ideal usages, simple customisation examples and more.
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The Javascript Database for Javascript Developers
Featuring Mark Nadal
You might think building a database in JavaScript is one of the worst ideas, and you would be right. But it begs the more interesting question, what algorithms would be necessary to make even the most volatile of environments (the browser) be a reliable haven for data?
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Scaling Node.js Applications with Microservices
Featuring Armagan Amcalar
In this talk, Armagan will explore different scaling strategies for Node.js applications like nginx and RabbitMQ, and observe their advantages and disadvantages. The last strategy will be a microservices solution via a Node.js framework, cote.js.
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Physics Simulations from the Ground Up
Featuring Matthew Keas
Much of the attention these days in the client and serverside JS stack surrounds the use of various frameworks, tools, testing, performance, and the connected, streaming, reactive world of the web. This talk is not about those topics above. Instead, this talk strips away all but the bare...
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The Death of "Write Once, Run Everywhere"
Featuring Steve Lacy
We've all been sold the tale that with one codebase we can support almost any platform you can imagine. After years of using these tools, nothing has really seemed to solve this problem well. Even when applications are built with tools like Phonegap, they never really "feel" right...
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API Blueprint for API Design Lifecycle
Featuring Vincenzo Chianese
APIs are software and as such they are a target of the basic software engineering rules we are all taught for decades. Unfortunately, this fact is often ignored or forgotten, and the common API design process resembles the infamous waterfall model. As APIs are often sitting on boundaries between...
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TypeScript - your regular JavaScript on steroids
Featuring Christos Matskas
Are you still writing JavaScript the old way? Do you wish you could take advantage of modern development principles such as static typing, classes, modules, and interfaces in order to build robust and reusable code? TypeScript is a type superset of Javascript that compiles to plain javascript and...
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