Simon is a Staff Developer at the Guardian. Twitter @sihil
October 2021
Engineering blog
A retrospective on a decade of innovations
The Guardian’s digital team ran a retrospective over an entire decade to understand how we’ve innovated in the past in order to help us innovate more today
May 2018
Engineering blog
Why the Guardian is using encrypted EC2 root volumes on AWS
In an ongoing effort to adhere to security best practices the Guardian is starting to use encrypted root volumes by default on servers in AWS
December 2016
Engineering blog
Multiple DNS: synchronising Dyn to AWS Route 53
In a time of frequent DDoS attacks we run through how we increased our DNS resilience by using multiple providers at little extra operational cost.
June 2016
Engineering blog
Guardian Hack Day June 2016 - as it happened
Welcome to the June Hack Day blog! Follow along for updates over the next two days to see what happens.
January 2015
Engineering blog
Delivering Continuous Delivery, continuously
The Guardian went from a fortnightly release cycle in 2011 to more than 24,000 production deployments in 2014. Why and how did we do it?
February 2014
Engineering blog
Encrypting sensitive data in Puppet
Intelligently encrypting sensitive data makes it easy to share configuration management with developers without losing control.
October 2012
Engineering blog
Winning the metrics battle
The Guardian's lead Infrastructure Developer runs through the team's use of metrics and monitoring for the Guardian
