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How to Build & Lead Your Future Team
Building and leading a team is no easy feat. We’ve outlined some of the guiding principles we followed, and continue to live by to build and lead the incredible team we have today - exploring everything from nailing your vision to what to do when things go wrong.
annasutton
25th February 2022
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So long, 2021 – thanks for all the lessons!
The end of the year always brings reflection on the past twelve months, a closer look at what was accomplished, and most importantly, the lessons learned along the way. Our CEO & Co-Founder Anna Sutton recapped The Data Shed’s gains, challenges, and lessons learned in 2021. Here are her biggest lessons of the year...
annasutton
31st December 2021
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Journey Of A Shedder
We caught up with @Seb Martin, Data Engineer here at The Data Shed, to find out more about his journey to becoming a Shedder. Seb joined us from Northcoders with almost no previous experience in coding before completing his course, and is now an integral part of the team working on some of our biggest projects.
rogercoram
4th February 2021
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Putting the PA in PAndemic
Steph reflects on her time working as an EA during a national lockdown. Covering the ups and downs of working from home and the importance of team wellbeing, she highlights what it really means to be a modern day assistant in a growing tech company.
Steph Varley
21st January 2021
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The Data Shed Values
Here at The Shed we’re just as passionate about the culture we work in as we are about the tech itself, because who wants to be miserable at work? There’s more to Shedders than the fact that we all, usually, work under one unconventional (shed) roof - our company values are at the heart of everything we do. We caught up with Clare, Head of People here at The Data Shed, to delve deeper into some of our guiding principles.
Clare Dobson
15th January 2021
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Goodbye to 2020!
Our CEO, Anna Sutton, has said goodbye to 2020 with a review of what has been the most unusual year. A year of disruption and uncertainty, but also a year where we've seen incredible acts of kindness and collaboration.
annasutton
23rd December 2020
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Journey to a Data Engineer
Last year, Josh decided his career needed to take a different path and signed up to Northcoders. He's now an established member of The Data Shed and we've loved reading about his journey in this blog post.
Andy Thurgood
12th September 2019
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Leeds Digital Festival 2019
During one of the most exciting weeks in tech here in Leeds, 2 of our team took to the stage to share how they successfully dealt with extraordinary volumes of requests on the Application Load Balancer.
Stew Norriss
20th June 2019
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What A Year…
This time last year I’d just nicely returned to work full time after my second son started school. Not an unusual situation, but to make matters more interesting, I was joining my own company full time, for the first time.
annasutton
15th May 2019
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DDoS protection and AWS
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and web application attacks are on the rise. Whilst I’m a firm believer that the ‘Cloud’ does simplify Infrastructure and Application builds and deployments, it unfortunately can make it easier to leave key application endpoints open to attack and security being compromised.
James Smith
1st May 2019
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What is Serverless?
Hello, I’ve recently gone serverless and wanted to share my experiences with you. Alongside the reasons why I chose to and why you may, or may not want to go serverless!
Andy Thurgood
14th March 2019
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Go! Shedsheet Reader
We love data at the DataShed, we are also very fond of the awesome things that can be done with the programming language Go.
Andy Thurgood
13th February 2019
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django-pwny
Much as we might lament their continued use, passwords are an important part of modern life. A part that seems only to be increasing in ubiquity; as I sit here I can see at least half a dozen devices, from this laptop to my television, that each require an inordinate number of passwords to keep them from turning into little more than novelty paperweights. So let’s take an inexplicable foray into the fun we have managing our little “memorized secrets”...
rogercoram
7th February 2019
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Load testing and Gatling.io
Load testing to 20k requests per second and beyond - how we did it!
James Smith
5th February 2019
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Leeds data firm wins contract to deliver a national gambling self-exclusion scheme
Data services firm, The Data Shed, has won a major contract with GAMSTOP, the central scheme that allows people to exclude themselves from online gambling websites, leading to an extra ten jobs being created at their Leeds office.
annasutton
30th January 2019
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How to create your first Angular 6 application in less than 5 minutes
Get the ball rolling with a simple Angular 6 web application running locally on your machine in less than 5 minutes.
Sam Bowen-Hughes
2nd January 2019
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The Data Shed is growing!
We are looking for a commercial interior supplier to help us fit out and move into our extended offices while retaining the great working environment that has already been created. We will require additional office furniture in keeping with what we already have as well as the construction of additional meeting rooms on one of the floors.
Steph Varley
21st December 2018
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