2020 in deployments
Ah, Christmas. A time for reflection, togetherness (sort of) and, for me, the sudden realisation that once again for some reason I said I'd write a blog post for the OVO advent calendar.

Ah, Christmas. A time for reflection, togetherness (sort of) and, for me, the sudden realisation that once again for some reason I said I'd write a blog post for the OVO advent calendar.
I’ve recently been writing a small Scala JS frontend application to provide an administration interface to an API for a side project and have had a good experience doing so, owing to the surprisingly (to me, at least!) comprehensive support for Scala JS amongst cats, cats-effect and fs2. I've found…
Monitoring is one of the many things teams at OVO energy have autonomy over choosing - we have teams using CloudWatch, DataDog and New Relic (among others!) but on the Propositions Team we've gone for the TICK Stack [https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/], an open source collection of ser…