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In this episode of the ASOS Tech Podcast, Lewis talks to Charlie, Tom, Shay and Phil about our journey from Azure Cloud Services to running our services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including all the challenges and learnings along the way.

Featuring...

Charlie Hoyland (he/him) - Lead Software Engineer
Tom Scott (he/him) - Principal Software Engineer
Shay Emambaccus (he/him) - Senior Software Engineer
Phil Clarke (he/him) - Senior Platform Engineer
Lewis Holmes (he/him) - Principal Software Engineer

Show Notes

Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/kubernetes-service
OpenLens: https://github.com/lensapp/lens
Helm Package Manager: https://helm.sh
Kubernetes Event Driven Autoscaling (KEDA): https://github.com/kedacore/keda
Istio Service Mesh: https://github.com/istio/istio
Flagger: https://github.com/fluxcd/flagger
Prometheus Monitoring & Alerting: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/

Credits

Producer: Si Jobling
Editor: Lewis Holmes
Reviewers: Si Jobling & Paul Turner

Check out our open roles in ASOS Tech on https://link.asos.com/tech-pod-jobs and more content about work we do on our Tech Blog http://asos.tech

You may have shopped on ASOS, now meet the people behind the tech.

In this episode of the ASOS Tech Podcast, Jen F talks to Sean Coyle from our Android App team about his diverse journey into tech through social services, train photography, his side project for testing new tech and where big tech should focus energy in the future.

Featuring...

Sean Coyle (he/him) - Associate Android Engineer
Jen Fryer (she/her) - Engineering Manager

Credits

Producer: Si Jobling
Editor: Si Jobling
Reviewers: Paul Turner

Check out our open roles in ASOS Tech on https://link.asos.com/tech-pod-jobs and more content about work we do on our Tech Blog http://asos.tech

You may have shopped on ASOS, now meet the people behind the tech.

In this episode of the ASOS Tech Podcast, Lewis talks to Chris, Steph, Tim and Tristan about how we have created Service Templates to enable teams to scaffold, build and deploy new services in a standardised way within minutes.

Featuring...

Chris Newark (he/him) - Principal Software Engineer
Lewis Holmes (he/him) - Principal Software Engineer
Steph Lee (she/her) - Lead Software Engineer
Tim Mills (he/him) - Lead Software Engineer
Tristan Vien (he/him) - Senior Software Engineer

Show Notes

Good Introduction To Service Templates: https://blog.thepete.net/blog/2020/09/25/service-templates-service-chassis/
Backstage Software Templates Feature: https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-templates/

Credits

Producer: Si Jobling
Editor: Lewis Holmes
Reviewers: Si Jobling, Paul Turner and Lucy Wilson

Check out our open roles in ASOS Tech on https://link.asos.com/tech-pod-jobs and more content about work we do on our Tech Blog http://asos.tech

You may have shopped on ASOS, now meet the people behind the tech.

In this episode of the ASOS Tech Podcast, Jen D talks to Jon Crofts from Paytech about his unconventional journey into tech as an Associate QA Engineer, from aspirations as a scientist through to education in Japan followed by bootcamping into tech, and what a QA does in Paytech.

Featuring...

Jon Crofts (he/him) - Associate QA Engineer
Jen Davis (she/her) - Engineering Manager

Credits

Producer: Si Jobling
Editor: Si Jobling
Reviewers: Lucy Wilson, Jen Davis & Paul Turner

Check out our open roles in ASOS Tech on https://link.asos.com/tech-pod-jobs and more content about work we do on our Tech Blog http://asos.tech
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You may have shopped on ASOS, now meet the people behind the tech.

In this episode of the ASOS Tech Podcast, Lewis talks to Dylan, Aimee and Lakshmi about the rise of generative AI and how this is being used in tools like GitHub Copilot to support engineers in ASOS Tech.

Featuring...

Dylan Morley (he/him) - Lead Principal Software Engineer
Aimee Simmons (she/her) - Software Engineer
Lakshmi Pradip Mukkawar (she/her) - Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Lewis Holmes (he/him) - Principal Software Engineer

Credits

Producer: Si Jobling
Editor: Lewis Holmes
Reviewers: Jen Davis, Paul Turner, Adrian Lansdown

Check out our open roles in ASOS Tech on https://link.asos.com/tech-pod-jobs and more content about work we do on our Tech Blog http://asos.tech
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You may have shopped on ASOS, now meet the people behind the tech.

In this episode of the ASOS Tech Podcast, Lucy and Adrian talk to David Barrows, Mofe Adeyemi and Dave Megins-Nicholas about all the training and personal development opportunities in ASOS Tech.

Featuring...

David Barrows (he/him) - Engineering Trainer
Mofe Adeyemi (she/her) - PMO Analyst
Dave Megins-Nicholas (he/him) - Senior Software Engineer
Adrian Lansdown (he/him) - Engineering Manager
Lucy Wilson (she/her) - Engineering Manager

Show Notes

Day In The Life Of… Dave MG (Senior Software Engineer)

Credits

Producer: Adrian Lansdown, Lucy Wilson
Editor: Si Jobling
Reviewers: Jennifer Fryer, Jen Davis, Paul Turner

Check out our open roles in ASOS Tech on https://link.asos.com/tech-pod-jobs and more content about work we do on our Tech Blog http://asos.tech
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