BDD Test Execution Throughput

Background This post is based on the experience of one project in particular. It is the implementation of a large enterprise solution, primarily to speed up the administration of a contract management process. The user-based part of the solution is...

Writing custom fields in Drupal 8

Based on my presentations at DrupalCamp London, on Saturday 28th February 2015 and DrupalCamp Bristol, July 4th 2015 Concept of a field Fields are the data entry points to a web application. Usually, they provide HTML elements and may be...

Continuously deploying Apollo with Wercker

When deploying Apollo it will create the cluster infrastructure in the cloud using an image built by Atlas and Packer. Additionally, it will provision and configure the new machines providing a full PAAS ready for deploying containers across the datacenter....

How Apollo uses Weave and Weave Scope

In my previous post we launched an Apollo cluster on AWS in under 5 minutes. Some of the magic around how we enable an easier developer experience around deploying and managing the communication between Docker containers is hidden in the...

Demo: Launching an Apollo cluster on AWS

This post aims to show how you can get up and running with an Apollo cluster on AWS inside 5 minutes. For more background information on Apollo see our GitHub repo or the original post which gives an insight into...

Making ethical development decisions

We are moral agents. Each of us makes countless choices throughout the course of a day, and many of these choices have ethical parameters and ramifications. We seldom, if ever, stop to think about those choices and their impact on...

Last year an unconference changed my life

NOTE: This post first appeared on Voxxed.com. Come to Unvoxxed, the newest London Unconference brought to you by The Java Posse Roundup and Devoxx UK, 15-16 June, £125.00 - £115 if you book before the end of 21st May and...

Drupal integration patterns

As Drupal has evolved, it has become more than just a CMS. It is now a fully fledged Web Development Platform, enabling not just sophisticated content management and digital marketing capabilities but also any number of use cases involving data...

Apollo, an open-source platform for running your apps

Today we are releasing Apollo - A platform for running your next generation web services and applications. This is a project that we have been experimenting with internally to power microservices and big data platforms for our clients. Apollo is...