DynamoDB provides a completely managed key-value store with some querying capabilities, but AWS’s Java client from Scala can be cumbersome and error-prone. The Guardian’s open-source library, Scanamo, provides a simpler alternative that reduces the scope for runtime errors.

In a time of frequent DDoS attacks we run through how we increased our DNS resilience by using multiple providers at little extra operational cost.

What are implicits? What are type classes? And why do they go so well together? Here are the answers I wish I’d had before diving into the Guardian’s codebase

We’re creating a product and user experience (UX) toolkit to help our product managers and UX designers build skill and confidence in their roles. Here’s what we’ve learned so far about creating a culture of learning within the Guardian Digital team.

How using a lightweight continuous deployment pipeline, which focuses on production validation instead of a large suite of acceptance tests, allows us to iterate on the Membership and Subscriptions apps at speed.

The Guardian Digital team talk about why they started a diversity group, and what they’ve been up to this year

In 2016 a few things went wrong when building theGuardian.com. Lets take a look at some of the slip-ups and what we learnt from them so you can avoid our mistakes

1 day, 4+ concepts, 12+ users, 10x things learnt. The assumptions buffet is great technique for product discovery

Can common-sense and our real-world intuition show us how to write secure software?

Client side development moves pretty fast. If you stop and look around once in a while, you’re probably missing a bunch of dependencies.

For all of it’s talk of limitless pivots, funding rounds and football tables, Startup culture can teach established companies a thing or two.

Last month we launched The Guardian VR on Daydream, Google’s VR platform. It was a roller coaster ride and here is what we learned.

Lessons learned from Tom Cruise-based software development.

Code Mesh is a conference for non-mainstream programming languages. Here are a bunch of things we have learned, along with out highlights!

In September, we released our flash briefing and skill for the Amazon Echo. Since then, we’ve tried to figure out how people are using this device. Here are some of the things we’ve learned.

We are launching the new Guardian Digital Fellowship scheme for 2017. Find out about how you can apply and help shape the future of digital media.

How the Guardian Digital team supplemented traditional monitoring with production testing to provide a comprehensive alerting system

In traditional and slow moving software delivery teams, the brakes are well and truly applied by endless cycles of painfully slow manual regression test cycles. The logical thing to do when considering moving towards a rapid release cadence is to speed up your regression by automating. Sally Goble, head of quality at the Guardian, argues that this is not right or necessary

This past summer 4 developers volunteered from the department to teach Python to 10 students ages 17-26.

Our small team has taken Google’s formula for creating and testing new ideas in a week, and adapted it to work at the Guardian.