Hackathons are a vital part of Rightmove’s culture. It’s a chance for people across the company (it’s not just for engineers) to innovate, take a break from their day job and play around with some technology or a new role for a few days. We’ve run a Hackathon each year for at least the last…
A few months ago I saw my first Ignite talk at Devoxx UK and I was swept away. I have always enjoyed demoing work I’ve done, and presenting isn’t something I shy away from. However, I’ve always found it hard to get going; making sure I’m always delivering the right message (or at least a…
From building a Docker image on your laptop to running a containerised workload in production – what are the key challenges and considerations? Four years on from our first experiments messing around with Docker images, we now run thousands of containers in our production data centres and have just started to scale out to Google…
While progressing in my career as a frontend developer I found a variety of opportunities to learn and have an impact: some would train my analytical problem-solving skills and others can lead to new territory exploration and questions such as: how can I outline a design? Where should I start? Knowing nothing at first, I would find myself…
