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I currently work at GDS, and I don't recognise what you're describing. There are lots of problems, but Java 7 doesn't have much to do with any of them.

Condé Nast International | Software Engineers | London, UK | Full-time | ONSITE, VISA We make Vogue, Wired, Ars Technica, Vanity Fair, Glamour, GQ and lots of others. We’re in Chin…

Sure, there are a bunch of places and ways you can do this. For a start, companies of all shapes and sizes have or are building internal data technology teams. Almost any large com…

We spent a lot of time talking about that balance. The thing to remember is that these conversations are happening in the context of an industry that's in structural decline. You h…

At the Guardian we needed our own video player, because we couldn't rely on a third party platform not to take down something that we published. Editorial independence was importan…

The strategy of proxying real usage to a second code path is incredibly effective. For months before the relaunch of theguardian.com, we ran traffic to the old site against the new…

Centralisation of process isn't just about dollars for data. Yes, for the business model to work, the company has to gather a lot of data that it can look at all at once. But that'…

Typically there'll be a CMS flag available to powerful users (editors). That's how it works at the Guardian. It sets a boolean (shouldHideAdverts) in our content API[0], which we u…

As the author was kind enough to pick us as an example, here's some background on what some of those requests are doing. hits.theguardian.com points to our Omniture implementation,…

Looks like that list hasn't been updated since our domain switch. If you really want to block our internal analytics (which are in practice fairly harmless) replace "hits.guardian.…

"It seems to me then that the purpose of cerebration sessions is not to think up new ideas but to educate the participants in facts and fact-combinations, in theories and vagrant t…