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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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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React and Three.js: React All The Things!
Featuring Peter O'Shaughnessy
React isn't just for the DOM! React and React-like approaches are reaching more and more areas of development, from native apps to 3D web apps. This talk will use the example of react-three (combining React and the popular WebGL library Three.js) to share why React-ifying your approach can be...
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Enterprise Interface Architecture
Featuring Tomasz Ducin
In this talk Tomasz wants to share with you his experience in designing enterprise financial systems.
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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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Blowing Out The Lamp
Featuring Oliver Rumbelow
Holiday Extras, a Times Top 100 company, maintains a big online presence selling airport parking, travel insurance and overnight stays in hotels. They made over 4 million bookings last year and their API serves around 35 requests/second - they aren't big big, but they're big enough to...
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Wrangling the Internet of Things using Node.js
Featuring Kirsten Hunter
Kirsten has created a system, available on Github, which interacts with Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, and Withings, to create a health tracking system. The Fitbit API is used to store and retrieve data, and that data is used to create analytics and history. More importantly, though, this system allows...
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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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Keynote: The toxic side of free. Or: How I lost the love for my side project
Featuring Remy Sharp
Open Source isn't all champagne sipping, closing GitHub issues and sleeping on a bed of cash. That said, it doesn't help when you build a product that anyone can use, any way they choose, utterly unchecked, because eventually, and quickly, it'll be abused.
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