GopherCon UK 2018
August 1st – Workshops Using and extending the Kubernetes API programmatically Workshop tutors: Stefan Schimanski & Michael Hausenblas Kubernetes is the de-facto standard for container…
Reducing The Footprint Of Our Virtual Sports Streaming Platform
…and improving on HLS latency and our ability to scale in the process Background For over a decade we have been operating a suite of…
More for less, more or less
I have always loved simple designs, being able to look at something and see immediately how it works without needing to ask the person who…
Riak Update
Riak has come a long way since the unfortunate demise of Basho Technologies. With the release of Riak KV 2.2.5 (https://github.com/basho/riak/blob/riak-2.2.5/RELEASE-NOTES.md), which is the first…
Moving between technologies
…and the challenges that we face when bringing in change and enforcing it For this post we are going to have a look at how…
RIAK Workshop Summary
Between 12th and 13th of October bet365 hosted the first post-Basho RIAK developer workshop. Over the two days, the international RIAK community came together at…
Image Optimisation
One of the most important but perhaps under-appreciated tasks in the design and development teams is the judicious optimisation of images. We use the word…
bet365 and RIAK @ London Riak Meetup
Andrew Deane, Systems Development Manager at bet365, recently spoke at the London Riak Meetup to discuss bet365’s acquisition and its consequences for the product. Andrew…
Efficient Default Property Values in TypeScript
In order to ensure that our website runs as fast and efficiently as possible, we often use performance analysis tools to take a look at…
Normalising Geometric Data at bet365
Normalising geometric data is not a problem solving exercise that immediately springs to mind when you initially join the Sports UI team at bet365. What…