A Recent Graduate's Guide to Sky Betting & Gaming…
A recent graduate’s blog on their first few months at Sky Betting & Gaming as well as what to expect.
7 minute read
Scaling Time Series Databases
We collect a lot of metrics about our production systems using Graphite Times Series Databases. In order to improve performance of Graphite and reduce the load on our SAN we purpose-built and tuned some very vast dedicated hardware for our Graphite Databases.
16 minute read
Hadoop: The Data Storage Elephant
Outline of how Hadoop works and how it is used at SBG
4 minute read
Taking a Chance - A Graduate DevOps Blog
The transition of an engineering student into a DevOps graduate, through the Software Academy at Sky Betting and Gaming.
4 minute read
Our Top 10 Big Data News Sources
Keeping on top of an area of technology that is as rapidly moving as the big data ecosystem is hard. Our data tribe share some of their resources for keeping up to date.
5 minute read
Automating Performance Optimisation in a Highly Virtualised Infrastructure Platform
Together with our partners at Turbonomic we’ve put together a video about how we optimise our highly virtualised platform.
2 minute read
Hacker Herding - Ten Lessons Learned From Launching a Bug Bounty Programme
Lessons learned from operating a bug bounty programme, and some tips for launching your own
9 minute read
Scripting NetBackup Policy Creation
The documentation and examples of the use of NetBackup commands can be sparse. Here is how we used the CLI to script our policy creation.
27 minute read
Why is device detection hard?
A look at why device detection is the thorn in our side thats not going anywhere.
20 minute read