SEACON: 2023

SEACON at The Oval. Using your curiosity to innovate through experimentation is something we value at Caplin, and something we do during our dev days and hack days.  This year’s SEACON often focused on ...Read More

WeatherVanes hack day

The theme for Caplin’s Winter Hackday 2022 was ‘Bringing it all together’, meaning to take any of our existing stack, products, and tools, and see what synergies we could produce. The WeatherVanes team (Mike and Marcus) ...Read More

QA Financial Forum 2023

It was good to meet up with old friends and make some new ones at the QA Financial Forum 2023.  There were a number of talks and panel discussions to listen to and learn from this year, ranging from European regulations ...Read More

Discovery: Observability

The cloud demands a new mindset when considering availability of components.  It is important to remember that there are no guarantees in the cloud, and it is the responsibility of the application to be ...Read More

Discovery: Simplified Scaling

Caplin Discovery introduces runtime scaling to the Caplin Platform. Ideally we’d be able to scale resources up when demand is high and scale resources down when demand is low.  For example, scale down at ...Read More

Discovery: Embracing the Cloud paradigm

Discovery is Caplin Platform’s service discovery application that allows you to take advantage of the possibilities of cloud deployments or alternatively simplify non-cloud deployments. Discovery allows Caplin Platform components to auto-discover each other and ...Read More

QCon 2019 – day 1

Cognitive dissonance is something I've been thinking about recently. The difference between what 'is', and what you think 'should be'. And that thought found resonance in an excellent talk today at QCon London 2019. Stuart Davidson presented ...Read More

QA Financial Forum London 2019

QAFFL is nothing to do with Harry Potter, despite the name and possible Quidditch connection. In fact, it is a one day conference focusing on QA in Finance: a series of talks ...Read More