The IT Pro Podcast: How to redesign a platform

Getting the opportunity to reshape a company’s tech platform from the ground up is an exciting prospect, but it’s also one that brings with it no small amount of challenge. There are many aspects to consider, including infrastructure choices, scalability, maintenance and more, but pull it off and you can revolutionise an organisation’s operational capacity.

That’s exactly the task that Marc Pell was faced with when he started at insurance company TempCover six and a half years ago. Fast-forward to today, and he’s leading its technical vision as CTO. In this week’s episode, he joins us to explain how he went about reinventing the company’s tech stack and the opportunities it has offered.

Elsewhere, we look at how COVID-19 has kick-started a remote working revolution, the pending closure of high street institution Carphone Warehouse, and Microsoft’s latest developer-friendly acquisition.

Footnotes

News

• Telcos offer support amid COVID-19 pandemic
• Coronavirus forces social media to rely heavily on AI moderation
• Microsoft Teams goes down as the world starts mass remote working
• The best time to prepare for remote working was six months ago
• Carphone Warehouse to close all standalone stores
• Microsoft plans to integrate npm with GitHub following acquisition

In-depth

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• Benefits of flexible working (including for parents)
• Microsoft, not Amazon, is going to win the cloud wars
• Microsoft Azure review: Competitive cloud pricing takes a bite out of AWS
• Flexible vs agile working – what’s the difference?
• Microsoft Azure is a testament to Satya Nadella’s strategic nouse
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• What is DevOps?

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