Author: Mike Salsbury

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

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

In production, networked application stacks need to be able to easily locate the core components and the services that they provide within their network.  Traditionally this ...Read More

Hiya! I'm V, a third year studying Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. Last year, I thought it'd be a good idea to get some experience working in a company after the end of my second year - this lead ...Read More

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

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

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

On 6th April 2018 the first AppiumConf was held. This was the first conference specifically about Appium, the mobile testing tool based on Selenium. Fittingly, the keynote was from two founders of the Appium project. They took us through the brief history of Appium, and ...Read More

This was Julien's hackday project. This year, Caplin Hack Day's theme was titled 'Into the Unknown'. Basically, we were allowed to do anything as long as it was something new.So I did what everyone ...Read More

Permissioning and Entitlement is one of the most critical functions of any financial trading system. Ensuring that your clients are entitled to perform their required actions and denied from all other actions is important not only for security and convenience, but ...Read More