Platformability

There is not one person I know who loves doing timesheets. The finance team hate chasing us for them and we hate having to itemise our work day. Even worse is when you come in on a Monday morning and have ...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

As Ian mentioned in his blog post, each project in this year's Hack Day needed a physical aspect to it. Our two man team decided to tackle a serious problem in the Caplin office and revolutionise the office facilities all ...Read More

Caplin Hack Day 2017 was held at the end of November. The theme was ‘Let’s get physical’ -- every project had to have a hardware component. For my project this year, I set myself the challenge of exporting the online documentation for ...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

Last week I got the chance to attend JAX London for a brilliant two-day conference. While several of the presentations and keynotes were interesting the one that really stuck with me afterwards was a small and relatively under-attended talk about the ...Read More

With version 9 of Java SE, Oracle introduced modules as a result of Project Jigsaw. Here we offer some considerations for existing projects. A smaller Java core offers better security as less code means fewer ...Read More