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Insights, guides, and videos on cloud-native engineering, platform building, AI, and DevOps best practices from the Appvia team.
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Home Office: 700 Developers, Self-Service in 2 Weeks
How the UK Home Office enabled 700+ developers to self-serve cloud environments, reducing deployment times from 8 months to 2 weeks with a 70:1 dev-to-DevOps ratio.
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Idriss Selhoum, Marks and Spencer's Cloud Adoption Journey
How Marks and Spencer approached their cloud transformation journey, from strategy to execution.
Listen now →What is a Cloud Landing Zone?
The foundation of every well-run cloud estate. What a landing zone is, why it matters, and how to get one in place fast.
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Low Latency Workloads in Kubernetes: A Practitioner's Guide
A practical guide to running latency-sensitive workloads on Kubernetes, covering dedicated node pools, CPU pinning, CNI selection, service mesh trade-offs and more.
Read more →Handling Serverless on Kubernetes
How to run serverless workloads on Kubernetes, which frameworks to use, and when it actually makes sense for your organisation.
Read more →What is a Cloud Landing Zone?
The foundation of every well-run cloud estate. What a landing zone is, why it matters, and how to get one in place fast.
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Case Study
Home Office: 700 Developers, Self-Service in 2 Weeks
How the UK Home Office enabled 700+ developers to self-serve cloud environments, reducing deployment times from 8 months to 2 weeks with a 70:1 dev-to-DevOps ratio.
Read more →
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Transport Exchange Group: Developer Self-Service in 5 Weeks
How Appvia built an internal developer platform enabling 50 developers to self-serve cloud infrastructure, eliminating deployment bottlenecks.
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Ralph Lauren: AI-Powered Global Inventory Optimisation
How Appvia built an Azure data platform and ML capability that transformed logistics analytics across Ralph Lauren's global supply chain.
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Idriss Selhoum, Marks and Spencer's Cloud Adoption Journey
How Marks and Spencer approached their cloud transformation journey, from strategy to execution.
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Richard Pearson, Head of Engineering at Moonpig: Career Progression, Leadership and Enablement Teams
Moonpig's Head of Engineering discusses career growth in tech, building effective leadership, and the role of enablement teams.
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Rafe Colburn, Depop (Etsy): Pitfalls of Measuring Engineering Productivity
Depop's engineering leader discusses why common engineering productivity metrics can be misleading and what to measure instead.
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Low Latency Workloads in Kubernetes: A Practitioner's Guide
A practical guide to running latency-sensitive workloads on Kubernetes, covering dedicated node pools, CPU pinning, CNI selection, service mesh trade-offs and more.
Read more →6 Serverless Frameworks on Kubernetes You Need to Know
A practical guide to the leading serverless frameworks running on Kubernetes, from Knative to OpenFaaS, and how to choose the right one.
Read more →Handling Serverless on Kubernetes
How to run serverless workloads on Kubernetes, which frameworks to use, and when it actually makes sense for your organisation.
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Case Study
Home Office: 700 Developers, Self-Service in 2 Weeks
How the UK Home Office enabled 700+ developers to self-serve cloud environments, reducing deployment times from 8 months to 2 weeks with a 70:1 dev-to-DevOps ratio.
Read more →
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JJ Food Service: AI-Powered Customer Intelligence in 12 Weeks
How Appvia built a Microsoft Fabric data platform that unlocked significant revenue uplift through AI-powered personalised promotions.
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Bank of England: Secure Cloud Migration with Zero Margin for Error
How Appvia supported the Bank of England in migrating legacy applications to Azure, reducing analysis time from 20 days to 30 minutes.
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Transport Exchange Group: Developer Self-Service in 5 Weeks
How Appvia built an internal developer platform enabling 50 developers to self-serve cloud infrastructure, eliminating deployment bottlenecks.
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Nominet: Building a Scalable, Secure Cloud Platform
How Appvia helped the .UK domain registry build a production-grade Kubernetes platform with enterprise security and developer self-service.
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CGI: Accelerating Cloud Adoption with Appvia
How Appvia partnered with CGI to deliver cloud-native platform capabilities, accelerating their clients' digital transformation journeys.
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Ralph Lauren: AI-Powered Global Inventory Optimisation
How Appvia built an Azure data platform and ML capability that transformed logistics analytics across Ralph Lauren's global supply chain.
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Acorn Insurance: Cloud-Native Platform for Growth
How Appvia helped Acorn Insurance modernise their infrastructure with a cloud-native platform, enabling faster delivery and improved resilience.
Read more →AI Moves Off the Cloud, Google Breaks the Internet, Google-Wiz Deal Under Fire
Lewis and Jay discuss AI infrastructure moving away from the cloud, Google's latest controversy, and the scrutiny around the Google-Wiz acquisition.
Listen now →UK's £1B AI Push, China's 631GB Data Leak, and Robotic Exoskeletons
The UK government's billion-pound AI investment, a massive Chinese data breach, and the rise of robotic exoskeletons in the workplace.
Listen now →From AI Labs to Warzones: Proteins, Drones and Dog Tech
AI's expanding reach from protein folding breakthroughs to drone technology and even innovations in pet tech.
Listen now →Design Meets AI: OpenAI and Jony Ive, VEO AI Film Creation, and Predicting Weather with M&S
The collision of design and AI, OpenAI's partnership with Jony Ive, AI-generated films, and an unexpected weather prediction story.
Listen now →AI Infrastructure Boom: CoreWeave's IPO, AWS Transform, and Quantum Computing's Next Leap
The infrastructure powering the AI revolution, from CoreWeave's IPO to AWS's transformation strategy and quantum computing breakthroughs.
Listen now →Saudi's AI Empire, Nvidia's Robot Plans, and Talking Dolphins
Saudi Arabia's massive AI investments, Nvidia's push into robotics, and how AI is being used to decode dolphin communication.
Listen now →Big Retail Cyber Attack: Amazon's AI Offensive and the Google AI Opt-Out Illusion
A major retail cyber attack, Amazon doubling down on AI, and why Google's AI opt-out might not be what it seems.
Listen now →Europe in the Dark: Cyber-attack Suspicions, Meta's New AI, Qwen 3 and Earth's Rotation Changes
European blackout conspiracy theories, Meta's latest AI model, China's Qwen 3 release, and how human activity might be changing Earth's rotation.
Listen now →Google AI Agentspace Workflows, Oracle Cloud Breach and OpenAI's New Features
Google's new AI agent platform, an Oracle cloud security breach, and the latest features from OpenAI.
Listen now →Thomas Boltze, CTO: Why Your Engineering Team is Slow and How to Fix It
CTO and co-founder Thomas Boltze joins to discuss why engineering teams slow down and practical strategies to get them back on track.
Listen now →AI Monopoly Madness: Microsoft's Moves and the Future of ChatGPT
Is Microsoft building an AI monopoly? Lewis and Jay explore the tech giant's aggressive AI strategy and where ChatGPT is heading next.
Listen now →Ian Poland, CIO of Sportradar: How to Manage Your Cloud Spend Well
Sportradar CIO Ian Poland shares his career journey to CIO and practical advice on managing cloud costs effectively.
Listen now →GitOps: The Gaps It Has and What Can Be Done About It
An honest look at where GitOps falls short and what teams can do to fill the gaps in their workflows.
Listen now →Open Source: Tesla Car Takeovers and Rogue Washing Machines
The wild side of open source security, from Tesla vulnerabilities to IoT washing machine exploits, with Lewis Marshall and Mark Hughes from Appvia.
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Richard Pearson, Head of Engineering at Moonpig: Career Progression, Leadership and Enablement Teams
Moonpig's Head of Engineering discusses career growth in tech, building effective leadership, and the role of enablement teams.
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Rafe Colburn, Depop (Etsy): Pitfalls of Measuring Engineering Productivity
Depop's engineering leader discusses why common engineering productivity metrics can be misleading and what to measure instead.
Listen now →Dean Bryen, CTO of Cloud UBS: Maintaining Innovation with New Technologies
UBS Cloud CTO Dean Bryen on staying innovative while managing enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and emerging technologies.
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Idriss Selhoum, Marks and Spencer's Cloud Adoption Journey
How Marks and Spencer approached their cloud transformation journey, from strategy to execution.
Listen now →David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals and Ruby on Rails: Rent vs Buy, Do Cloud Providers Really Save Money?
The creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of 37 Signals discusses why they left the cloud and whether cloud providers truly save companies money.
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Matthew Skelton, Team Topologies: The Complexities of Managing Teams in the Modern Workplace
The author of Team Topologies discusses team design, cognitive load, and how modern organisations can structure teams for fast flow.
Listen now →Viktor Farcic, Upbound: Platform Engineering, Role Evolution and Optimisation
Upbound's Viktor Farcic on how the platform engineering role is evolving and strategies for optimising cloud-native platforms.
Listen now →Nicholas Chang and Steve Nicholl, Kainos: Navigating Cloud Adoption
Two leaders from Kainos share their insights on navigating cloud adoption challenges and driving successful cloud transformation.
Listen now →Chris Stura, PwC UK: Platform Engineering and Business Success
PwC UK's Chris Stura on aligning platform engineering with business outcomes and driving measurable success.
Listen now →Colin Humphreys, Syntasso: Anti-Patterns Exposed, Building Platforms the Right Way
Syntasso's Colin Humphreys exposes common platform engineering anti-patterns and shares how to build platforms that actually work.
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