Posts authored by Phil Wills:

Saturday, 24 December 2016

Scanamo: simpler, safer DynamoDB access for Scala
Phil Wills

DynamoDB provides a completely managed key-value store with some querying capabilities, but AWS’s Java client from Scala can be cumbersome and error-prone. The Guardian’s open-source library, Scanamo, provides a simpler alternative that reduces the scope for runtime errors.

AWS   Advent developer blog 2016   DynamoDB   Scala  

A supermassive black hole in the core of galaxy named MCG 6-30-15. Scientists for the first time have seen energy being extracted from a black hole. Like an electric dynamo, this black hole spins and pumps energy out through cable-like magnetic field lines into the chaotic gas whipping around it, making the gas - already infernally hot from the sheer force of crushing gravity - even hotter.

Monday, 5 January 2015

Delivering Continuous Delivery, continuously
Phil Wills, Simon Hildrew

This extract from the Build Quality In anthology of DevOps and Continuous Delivery experience reports explains how the Guardian adopted Continuous Delivery.

Cloud computing   Computing   DevOps   Internet   Software  

Container ships at Felixstowe, UK.

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

The Guardian development flow
Phil Wills

By moving towards a GitHub flow with continuous integration, the Guardian's software team describe how they've streamlined development and testing

Git   Software  

Photo by Travis Modisette via Flickr