OpenTable Tech UK Blog

2019

Jun 11Meetup: Design Systems in the Real World with React
Feb 26Structuring large ASP.NET Core projects for testing and readability
Jan 28Testing an API In Memory in ASP.NET Core

2018

Oct 8Starting your career as a software developer
May 10Monads explained by a imperative programmer - with examples

2017

Dec 7Meetup: New Ideas for the New Year
Nov 14Meetup: Bedtime stories
Nov 2Circuit Breakers and Application Resilience
Sep 4Meetup: Frontend Refactoring at Scale
Jul 18Hosting external events
Jun 16Pragmatic Testing with GraphQL
Jun 1OpenTable's Global Hackathon 2017
Feb 15The goal driven organisation

2016

Nov 18testing-node-apps-with-docker-compose (and some Soul)
Nov 9falcor-postman
Apr 27OpenComponents - microservices in the front-end world
Jan 7Testing React Components

2015

May 6Puppet-Community
Mar 5The DNS ABC
Feb 16Hapi.js and SIGTERM
Feb 9Dismantling the monolith - Microsites at Opentable
Feb 2A Beginner's guide to REST services
Jan 23On Strongly Typed Logging
Jan 19Building a living styleguide at OpenTable
Jan 1Explaining Flux architecture with macgyver.js

2014

Dec 8Supporting IE8 in the OpenTable redesign
Nov 28Proxying Services With Hapi.js
Nov 26Hobknob v2.0: A new dimension
Nov 8Interacting with ElasticSearch using Hubot
Oct 31Coach don't rescue
Oct 22Hobknob v1.0: Now with authorization
Oct 6PuppetConf 2014 - Part 3
Oct 6PuppetConf 2014 - Part 2
Oct 6PuppetConf 2014 - Part 1
Sep 4Introducing Hobknob: Feature toggling with etcd
Sep 1Testing Puppet with Beaker pt.3 - Testing Roles
Sep 1Testing Puppet with Beaker pt.2 - The Windows story
Aug 8What can I do?
May 20Acceptance Now
May 19Continuous Delivery: Automating Deployment Visibility
May 15Managing Windows Features with Puppet
May 13Managing Windows Web Applications with Puppet
Apr 29Remote Worker Notes – Tools and Setup
Apr 28Effective prioritisation
Apr 16Look ma, no unit tests!
Apr 7Upgrading Puppet with Puppet
Apr 4Testing Puppet with Beaker
Apr 4ForgeFriday - our commitment to the Puppet Forge
Apr 2Internationalisation in a RESTful world
Mar 20When to performance test in production
Mar 19Performance testing our Search API
Feb 28Benchmarking APIs - why it’s important, and how
Feb 12Programme Management, making Agile scale
Feb 10The adoption of Configuration Management
Feb 620% time: Why, as a manager, you should love your engineers to be doing it
Feb 3Coaching style over substance

2013

Nov 22Beginning a journey to chatops with Hubot
Oct 21Linking to your app in Windows 8
Sep 25Resolving domains to areas in ASP.NET MVC
Sep 23Quick look at RethinkDB
Sep 11Counting in ElasticSearch
Aug 16Grunt + Vagrant = Acceptance Test Heaven
Aug 8Grunt your deployments too
Aug 7MapReduce in MongoDB
Aug 5Using Vagrant to work with ElasticSearch on your local machine
Jul 24One Gun - Many Enemies
Jul 8Managing Windows Certificates with PowerShell
Jun 18NDC Oslo
Jun 14Windows Feature Management with PowerShell
Jun 7nLocalGeoCoder
Jun 7Getting Started With SpecRun
Jun 1Welcome to the OpenTable UK technology blog