Category: Build

At Caplin, dev days offer an opportunity for engineers to take a break from their routine tasks, to delve into a side project or experiment with a new technology. During my recent dev day, ...Read More

... it’s the exciting comradery that makes this a great initiative for all involved. It’s really motivating and great for team morale. ...Mncedi Maila, Channels & Platforms Lead at Standard Bank Picture this: a day of getting ...Read More

As we slowly move away from Docker Swarm, we have set our sights on implementing a Kubernetes cluster that we can use to build, test and deploy our applications on.  This guide explains how to create a Kubernetes cluster from ...Read More

The theme for the hackday VII was "Simplify and Scale".My colleague Daniel Owen and I decided to produce something to simplify our lives as QAs at Caplin. Andy Berry was also on hand and kind enough to ...Read More

Repost from bladerunnerjs.org/ James Turner on 13 Dec 2013 In the last couple of years Node.js has exploded onto the web development stage. (I’m going to assume that you are familiar with Node.js. If you’re not, and you’re doing ...Read More

A whole day devoted to Gradle – what fun! The fact that the event took place shows how much traction, and how prominent Gradle is becoming in the build community. It’s becoming the de facto build tool for ...Read More

At Caplin, we have 7 ESX 4.0 data stores, filled to the brim with Linux and Windows VMs. We use these VMs to test and deploy artifacts from many different projects, all under ...Read More