When I was approached by the Applied Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility team to help to create an escape room for NI Science Fest, I quickly found myself saying “I’m in!”. For those of you who do not know, an escape room is ‘a themed room where you and your team find clues and solve…

Recently two colleagues and I attended a migration openhack which was hosted by Microsoft in their London office. The purpose was for us to learn the migration process in a practical lab environment and then use the new-found skills for use within our own projects and future Kainos projects. During the three days we faced…

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Suzanne Angell, an Account lead in our Public Sector Digital Services team talks to Forward Role about the successes in her career. Check out the interview below to learn about what Suzanne loves most about her role, how she ended up working in the technology sector and the challenges she…

I’m Hannah and I started working at Kainos as a Trainee UX Designer straight out of university –  I quickly realised that I still had a lot to learn! I want to share with you some of the lessons I’ve learned in my first 6 months on the job.  1. Knowledge sharing is awesome! One…

Read this story from one of our Workday HCM Consultants on the big life changes that led her to find home with us!  The year of 2015 brought me to UK with lots of hopes and happiness. I started my work journey here in the UK working as a customer care representative. Although the job…

I had the pleasure of going back to my old university, Ulster University to deliver a guest lecture to Software Engineering students as part of their Software Development Practice module. From this I learned a few things: New found admiration for the work lecturers do — from preparing lectures, to creating syllabus to delivering the…

A few months ago, we began a piece of work on my last project setting out to accomplish two things: Improve the speed of our release process Allow us to run multiple versions of the application concurrently These were two limitations of our initial deployment and release design and so in sharing this blog I…

Friday 24th January saw the first ever Belfast edition of the Serverless Days conference and I, along with several of my colleagues, went along anticipating a great day of discussion around the benefits and challenges of this paradigm shift in how we build digital solutions. We were not disappointed. The event was exceptional from organisation,…

Businesses now live in a data-saturated environment – a data swamp if you will, but with fewer ogres – with millions of data points, capable of being extracted from data lakes or generated from IoT sensors daily. Data which solves problems and progresses business.   The Applied Innovation team understand this and research into products…

Time-series – as the name suggests – is recording points of data against time. This time can be as large as years or as precise as microseconds or nanoseconds. Using this data structure we can apply time-series analysis and time-series forecasting to it.   Analysis looks at how some metric changes over time and what…