Software developer, home brewer, husband and dad. Living in High Peak, working @AutoTraderLife in Manchester (views own etc.)

Buxworth, England
Joined February 2009
A thought provoking read from my colleague Nick! Faith Driven Development engineering.autotrader.co.uk… via @autotraderlife
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If you love the NHS, please consider following us and retweeting this. The NHS really needs your support right now, and the staff really deserve a morale boost. Together, we can increase awareness of key issues and show staff how appreciated they are. Thanks for considering x
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Nothing says “I care about my customers” better than an obviously templated email response, right? ⁦@EMTrains⁩
We're looking for Site Reliability Engineers @AutoTraderLife so if you're into Automating as much as you can, this could be the one for you! Our delivery platform is evolving, our latest iteration being based on #Kubernetes & #Istio on #GoogleCloud , as well as #AWS and #Azure
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BREAKING NEWS 📢 | We've partnered with @thoughtworks to launch the ThoughtWorks Scholarship – a diversity initiative open to women and gender minorities. Apply now for your chance to secure a fully-funded place at Northcoders ℹ bit.ly/ThoughtWorksScholarsh…
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Voting makes a difference. No matter how bored you are over Brexit, go out and vote. Any vote for Farage on Thursday won’t be seen by him as a protest but as support for his brand of far-right U.K. politics. The more votes against him, the greater the chance of stopping him.
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Me and @ed_kent about to go live @DevoxxUK @AutoTraderLife
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How we use Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) on Data Engineering engineering.autotrader.co.uk… via @autotraderlife
As the largest automotive marketplace in the UK, @ATInsight’s streamlined services have all been made possible by utilising Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Istio. Find out more → cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
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The Current App helps make your fitness fun! To celebrate our concept launch we are giving away a brand new FitBit 2 Flex. RT this tweet and follow us @weare_current. And check out our freshly launched website 👉 currentapp.tk 👈 #GetHealthy #HealthyLife #FitFam
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holy fucking shit
New year, new upgrades. Introducing unlimited free private repositories, and a new unified Enterprise product. blog.github.com/2019-01-07-n…
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Spread some warmth this winter, with our 'Share a Pair' initiative in partnership with charity @crisis_uk Retweet this post and we’ll donate a pair of socks to someone homeless. One retweet = one pair.
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Stupidly proud of having been the first to vote in this round of ⁦@wittertainment #ChristmasMovieBattleRoyale⁩
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To paraphrase William Morris: write nothing in your git commit messages that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be truthful
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.@EMTrains 0803 #CLY - #MAN short form for the 4th weekday in 6! Please can you return your”unavailable” units to service ASAP!
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I've just joined this craft beer club. Here's my code for £12 off a case from Beer52 for you: beer52.com/join/367734/b9855…
The official 2018 Python Developers Survey is in full swing. Completing the full survey qualifies you for a Python Gift Pack! surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/c12…
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Excited to be speaking today at @SparkAISummit on behalf of @AutoTraderLife . I'll explain how we brought a new ML model into production using Databricks, MLeap and Kubernetes engineering.autotrader.co.uk…
WTF @audibleuk? You email me with a “we miss you” 50% off membership offer, and then when I actually click through to claim you tell me I’m not eligible for the offer!
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