Category: Work/Life

A nice sunny morning in London started with a very interesting Keynote on Artificial Intelligence. Peter Morgan gave an introduction into Intelligence and its types. It was fascinating to see what areas of science and physics are needed ...Read More

Hack Day 2018 was centred around giving ‘Power to the People’ -- offering users a more hands-on approach to application configuration that hides complexity. The Caplin Deployment Framework (DFW) manages the deployment of  ...Read More

Hack Day 2017, ‘Let’s Get Physical’, required that every entry contain a hardware component. To meet this requirement, the 'Onwards Defrosted Tuna' team decided to leverage the Caplin Platform to enable a web application to initiate and terminate calls on a ...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

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

Last Sunday, Caplin attended the Silicon Milkroundabout in the Old Truman Brewery, near Brick Lane. Mike, John, Pat and Jana presented Caplin's technology and spoke with a lot of IT professionals about the exciting opportunities available at Caplin. For ...Read More

Over the last few months, we have been working on using Docker to produce efficient containers for our front end solutions. Early on, we noticed that there were several requirements we were going ...Read More

Just like last year, this October Caplin attended JAX London - the 'Conference for Java & Software Innovation'. JAX 2017 at the Business Design Centre in Angel, LondonThe main theme of ...Read More

A monolithic repository is a giant repository that holds multiple projects. The move towards monolithic repositories has been popularised over the past couple of years by tech giants Facebook and Google, stating advantages such as simplified dependency management and improved code ...Read More

Recently in Caplin we had a dev week. It was an opportunity for developers to collaborate on mini projects to trial and demo new technologies. On the eve of the Caplin Trader 5 release, which embraces new JavaScript technologies and the ...Read More