Tech Blog

11 December 2019

Simply Business recently attended Gartner's IT Symposium/Xpo 2019 in Barcelona. But what inspired, challenged and piqued our interest?

21 November 2019

At Simply Business, the Data & Analytics team has designed and built an internal application for monitoring live data experiments to help us track and share insights on our products and customer experience.

03 October 2019

Today's software engineers can no longer afford to conform to outdated stereotypes; social awkwardness and poor communication skills no longer cut it in the advancing world of tech.

11 September 2019

Putting an experienced engineer in front of an open sourced project they've never seen before to see how they approach adding a new feature - episode two.

10 July 2019

Putting an experienced engineer in front of an open sourced project they've never seen before to see how they approach adding a new feature - episode one.

16 July 2019

Using event-driven streaming microservices has allowed us to evolve our call centre in ways we couldn’t have done before. We now have a fully flexible set of services that work together to improve our efficiency and transparency as well as improving our consultants and customers’ lives.

05 July 2019

The design pattern in Rack Middleware architecture is not just for web apps! It can be used to separate concerns in many kinds of data processing pipeline.

29 July 2019

In this video series, we'll be using the 4 rules of simple design to guide our refactoring of an open sourced ruby project. Watch part three today.

21 June 2019

Technology is at the core of everything we do at Simply Business. An insurance broker for small businesses and landlords, at the core, we're a technology company.

25 June 2019

In this video series, we'll be using the 4 rules of simple design to guide our refactoring of an open sourced ruby project. Watch part two today.