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How to Improve Cache Efficiency and Reduce Costs with Next.js
How to Improve Cache Efficiency and Reduce Costs with Next.js
Next.js “On-Demand” Incremental Static Regeneration is here. What is it? How does it work? And how can we use it to deliver content changes…
Kyan Team
Aug 17, 2022
How to Re-Platform Your Website Without the Risky ‘Big Bang’ Release — Tom Marshall, Head of…
How to Re-Platform Your Website Without the Risky ‘Big Bang’ Release — Tom Marshall, Head of…
Let’s say we have a large website that we need to re-platform. Perhaps the competition are delivering a better digital experience, or…
Kyan Team
Mar 30, 2022
How Content Migration to Headless CMS Could Be Your Last—Tom Marshall, Head of Technology
How Content Migration to Headless CMS Could Be Your Last—Tom Marshall, Head of Technology
Content migration. Two words that, if you’ve ever had the misfortune to suffer through one, have likely just sent a shiver down your spine.
Kyan Team
Feb 9, 2022
Persuasive metrics and meaningful outcomes, part two
Persuasive metrics and meaningful outcomes, part two
This is part two in a two-part series looking at persuasive metrics and meaningful outcomes. Part one is a great intro and some orientation…
Will Poole
Nov 19, 2021
Searching Headless Content with Algolia, Rails, Kontent & Next.js—Tom Marshall, Head of Technology
Searching Headless Content with Algolia, Rails, Kontent & Next.js—Tom Marshall, Head of Technology
As anyone who has implemented search functionality before will know, search is a deceptively complex problem. Google set a high bar. Users…
Kyan Team
Oct 11, 2021
Pre-Rendered, Server-Rendered, or Hybrid? — Tom Marshall, Head of Technology
Pre-Rendered, Server-Rendered, or Hybrid? — Tom Marshall, Head of Technology
The web used to be a simpler place. You either served your site as static HTML documents or dynamic server rendered templates with…
Kyan Team
Jul 1, 2021
Persuasive metrics and meaningful outcomes, part one
Persuasive metrics and meaningful outcomes, part one
Look at where we are today, look at what we’ve overcome, look at what we’ve achieved and accomplished in that time, and look at who we did…
Will Poole
May 11, 2021
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Recognising and celebrating the creativity of code — Rebecca Brennan, Head of Marketing
Recognising and celebrating the creativity of code — Rebecca Brennan, Head of Marketing
Back in 1998, I started my career as a Marketer in a software company. For two years I learnt about the millennium bug, the dot.com boom…
Kyan Team
Apr 7, 2021
WXG 7 — Meet the Speakers: Chris Dowling, Senior Front-End Engineer at Unmade
WXG 7 — Meet the Speakers: Chris Dowling, Senior Front-End Engineer at Unmade
Chris is a Senior Front-End Engineer who has been working on Unmade’s customisation tools for three years, most recently this has involved…
Ben Horsley-Summer
Apr 15, 2019
WXG 7 — Meet the Speakers: Chris Todhunter, Founder of Studio Republic
WXG 7 — Meet the Speakers: Chris Todhunter, Founder of Studio Republic
Chris is Founder and Technical Director of Studio Republic and has worked in web development for longer than he cares to admit.
Ben Horsley-Summer
Apr 11, 2019
Key learnings from running agile projects using Scrum
Key learnings from running agile projects using Scrum
As an Agile Project Manager, Amy has been instrumental in running Kyan projects with Scrum methodology in mind. Scrum and agile approaches…
Amy Callaghan
Apr 8, 2019
WXG 7 –The south’s best tech conference. Back for good.
WXG 7 –The south’s best tech conference. Back for good.
Now in its seventh year, we knew we wanted to shake up the format and try something new.
Amy Johnstone
Mar 13, 2019
Bend And Break: A Satirical Inspirational Story
Bend And Break: A Satirical Inspirational Story
I wasn’t particularly sporty as a kid…
Karen Fielding
Mar 7, 2019
From Plastic Cheese to Strategies: my career path before Kyan
From Plastic Cheese to Strategies: my career path before Kyan
As career paths go mine has been pretty random. I always knew I wanted to work in the arts, as a kid all I wanted to be was a Disney…
Harry Ford
Feb 28, 2019
Design tools that we’re excited about for 2019
Design tools that we’re excited about for 2019
We always keep our eyes peeled for new design tools that can evolve how we collaborate as a team, and enable us to deliver engaging…
Kyan Team
Jan 3, 2019
Dyslexia, just means you are s**t at spelling, right?
Dyslexia, just means you are s**t at spelling, right?
Wrong. Dyslexic brains just process information in a different way to non Dyslexics. We tend to process what we hear and see in a more out…
Amy Johnstone
Oct 25, 2018
National Coding Week and what it means to us
National Coding Week and what it means to us
National Coding Week was launched in 2014 from a double-decker bus, like all great things should be. It was founded by Richard Rolfe, who…
Ben Horsley-Summer
Sep 24, 2018
From tester to developer, my journey from breaking things to making them
From tester to developer, my journey from breaking things to making them
To celebrate #NationalCodingWeek, I wrote this post for kyan.com, relating my career move from Tester to Developer.
Steve Butler
Sep 20, 2018
Back to Dot York! This time, it’s… very personal?
Back to Dot York! This time, it’s… very personal?
Attending #DotYork last year was brilliant. Getting to hear from a variety of interesting people on a wide array of tech-related topics…
Karen Fielding
Sep 18, 2018
Our biggest Ruby on Rails upgrade ever!
Our biggest Ruby on Rails upgrade ever!
Keeping your Rails apps up-to-date with the latest versions of Rails and Ruby is not an easy task at the best of times, and it can quite…
Big Rainbow Head
Jul 23, 2018
An introduction to the Elixir programming language
An introduction to the Elixir programming language
Elixir and the Phoenix framework have been gaining more and more popularity over the last couple of years. In this post I will be giving an…
Big Rainbow Head
Jul 18, 2018
Did you miss London Fintech Week? Here’s a lowdown.
Did you miss London Fintech Week? Here’s a lowdown.
As London’s 5th annual Fintech Week rolls to a close, I scrabble together my notes in an attempt to make some sense of the many, many…
Ben Horsley-Summer
Jul 13, 2018
Conference Spotlight: UX London 2018
Conference Spotlight: UX London 2018
I went to UX London 2018 — the conference’s 10th outing and my first time. It felt like a good year to see what it’s all about. Kyan…
Rob Edwards
Jun 26, 2018
Monthly digest: the best of May
Monthly digest: the best of May
What can we say about May? Well, GDPR came and went. Much like the Millennium Bug, the build-up has so far definitely outweighed the…
Ben Horsley-Summer
Jun 3, 2018
Conference Spotlight: Bath Ruby
Conference Spotlight: Bath Ruby
We are conference affectionados at Kyan. As well as hosting our own, we try to visit as many as possible. This year already we’ve been to…
Karen Fielding
May 29, 2018
Five things I learned at RailsConf 2018
Five things I learned at RailsConf 2018
I’d been reading 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz and it made me reflect upon where the next level of my development needed to get to. Sandi…
Stephen Giles
May 16, 2018
Monthly digest: we bring you the best of April.
Monthly digest: we bring you the best of April.
Let’s get straight to it… April was huge! We held our annual conference, WXG. We welcomed Ben (that’s actually me) to Kyan — he’s (I’m) our…
Ben Horsley-Summer
May 1, 2018
How environment impacts on innovation
How environment impacts on innovation
Sitting at home in my pajamas with a cup of tea on the go is, while delightful, not where I do my best work. Quiet, buttoned-up offices…
Olly Percival
Apr 25, 2018
Testers: Why you need them in your team
Testers: Why you need them in your team
Ben sits down with our Testers to talk process, devices, mobile tech and… Lego. Meet Ilia and Jamie.
Ben Horsley-Summer
Apr 23, 2018
Refuse the straw — How we’re reducing plastic use at Kyan
Refuse the straw — How we’re reducing plastic use at Kyan
Blue Planet II has had an amazing impact on popular culture, with Michael Gove mentioning the turtle and the plastic bag in PMQs, various…
Gavin Shinfield
Apr 19, 2018
WXG SIX — Meet the Speakers (№6)
WXG SIX — Meet the Speakers (№6)
When I saw the lineup for #WXGSIX, I was particularly excited for Emma Lawton’s talk. At 29, the design agency she was working for had just…
Ben Horsley-Summer
Apr 18, 2018
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