Insights from the Symbiote team
Reduce costs by replacing separate iOS and Android apps with a progressive web app (PWA)
Chris Kelly, Symbiote’s Senior Developer, breaks down the benefits of a progressive web app (PWA) versus building and maintaining separate apps for Apple iOS and Android.
Pivoting from banking into tech: our intern talks career shifts and learning curves
Cloud Operations Support Engineer Intern, Namarta Kumari, describes what she learned in her four months at Symbiote.
Hacking at CMSes to rapidly evaluate the most suitable tool
Our Head of Technology, Marcus Nyeholt, talks about a team hackday we held as a fun and effective way to evaluate a whole raft of CMS options to see what had changed and what was new.
Sharing job-seeker assistance software makes sense for government departments
Owen Windsor, our Managing Director, describes how a job-seeker assistance software tool we created was easily modified for use by two government departments who served different clients.
Vulnerability, security and compliance
Owen Windsor, Symbiote’s Managing Director, explains that it’s possible and necessary to actively identify, monitor and respond to security threats across your systems.
Bug catching is an important part of application support
Front-end developer, Chris James, describes how satisfying bug-fixing can be and talks through his application support process.
What does your ideal dashboard or intranet look like?
Amanda Brown, our Head of Strategy & Projects talks about APIs and integrations, custom dashboards and intranets, and giving clients all the digital information they need in one place.
Front-end design is a balancing act
Chris James describes what a Front-end developer does and the ways in which his job is both creative and technical.
Best practices for the automation of integration testing
Our senior QA Analyst, Sakina Abedi, describes the vital role software testing plays in delivering high quality products and the best practices involved in automating testing.
What do cats and automation have in common?
James Mudie, our DevOps engineer talks about automation, containerisation and cats and explains what a DevOps engineer does.