Posts authored by Jenny Sivapalan:


Friday, 23 December 2016

Multiple DNS: synchronising Dyn to AWS Route 53
Simon Hildrew, Jenny Sivapalan

In a time of frequent DDoS attacks we run through how we increased our DNS resilience by using multiple providers at little extra operational cost.

Advent developer blog 2016  

Cutting a blue network cable with scissors

Monday, 19 December 2016

Introducing the Guardian Digital’s self-organised Diversity & Inclusion group
Sally Goble, Jenny Sivapalan

The Guardian Digital team talk about why they started a diversity group, and what they’ve been up to this year

Advent developer blog 2016  

Product workshops in full swing on Ada Lovelace Day - an initiative run by the Guardian Digital team’s diversity group

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Guardian Digital Fellowship 2017
Jenny Sivapalan

We are launching the new Guardian Digital Fellowship scheme for 2017. Find out about how you can apply and help shape the future of digital media.

Advent developer blog 2016   Digital Fellowship Scheme  

People hiking together at sunrise

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

The Guardian's new pairing exercises
Jenny Sivapalan

The Guardian uses pairing exercises as part of the recruitment assessment for developers. We have made some big changes to our pairing exercise. We want to give everyone the best chance of demonstrating their programming skills.

Two people playing Scrabble with their dog

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Monitoring, alerting and starting from scratch
Jenny Sivapalan

An introduction to the tools and services which monitor the Guardian's Content API and alert when performance is threatened

Content API  

Public facing dashboard to show if the Content API is working as expected.

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Young Rewired State 2013: mentoring the tech stars of tomorrow
Jenny Sivapalan, Alastair Jardine, Will Franklin, Matt Andrews

Some of the Guardian's digital development team describe a day mentoring young coders for the annual Festival of Code by Young Rewired State

Programming  

The crowd at Young Rewired State 2013

Thursday, 11 April 2013

The Guardian attends Hack the Government 2013 with Rewired State
Lindsey Dew, Max Harlow, Jenny Sivapalan

Some of the Guardian’s software development team attend the annual event exploring government data and creative uses of technology

Data journalism   Government data  

A crowd of people ready to start Hack the Government 2013 with Rewired State