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Liam joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post he reflects on his first month and looks to the future.

In this post, Jessica reflects on her first month as an apprentice software engineer at endjin

In this post, Nehemiah reflects on his first month at endjin as an apprentice engineer.

Eli joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post she reflects on her first month.

Amy is studying Biomedical Engineering University of Reading, and reflects on her two month summer internship at endjin learning C# and Python, and working on a data science project.

Thea studies Biomedical Engineering at King's College London, in this post she summarises her 6 week internship at endjin.

Charlotte is going into her second year of Computer Science at the University of York. In this post she describes her summer internship.

Klaudia studies Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton, and reflects on her two month internship.

C# 10's new implicit global imports can make your code more communicative. This article shows how the magic works, and how you can control the feature.

Customise your home office and make your home working experience more enjoyable and productive by building your own desk for less than £200 over a weekend.

Explore Azure Synapse's SQL Serverless for on-demand data lake queries, its benefits, and challenges in managing schemas and maintaining data sync.

During our last few months of recruitment, one of the main questions that we were asked during this process is 'what does your average day look like'. The extremely varied work at endjin made this quite a tricky question to answer, so we expanded the question to be slightly broader - 'what does your average week look like?'

Many companies struggle to bridge a communication gap between their business stakeholders, and the technical team. At endjin we employ a few different techniques in order to help our customers overcome this challenge. These include (but aren't limited to) user stories, BDD specs, and a ubiquitous language. This blog focuses on user stories, and how these can be used to enable business-wide communication or requirements.

Deploy a VueJS app on Azure Static Web Apps using a YAML-defined Azure DevOps pipeline with Microsoft's hosting solution for static web applications.

Carmel has recently released an exam tips course on preparing for the AZ-204 exam: Developing solutions for Microsoft Azure! The course gives an overview of the syllabus, some tips on what you'll need to know for each section, and some examples of common question types.

Thinking of data as the new soil is useful in highlighting the key elements that enable a successful data and analytics initiative.

Learn how code generation can build on System.Text.Json and JSON Schema to create a great experience for C# developers.

TL;DR - Using Azure Synapse SQL Serverless, you can query Azure Data Lake and populate Power BI reports across multiple workspaces.

Explore data with Azure Synapse's interactive Spark notebooks, integrated with Pipelines & monitoring tools. Learn how to add tests for business rule validation.

Power BI deployment pipelines is a (relatively) new feature of Power BI that is used to manage collaboration, change management and testing of reports. They can be used to enable DevOps for your analytics solutions, and support structured development and deployment of reports.

Some of my thoughts inspired whilst helping out on the farm over the weekend. What is the future of work given the increasing presence of machines in our day to day lives? In which situations can AI deliver greatest value? How can we ease the stress of digital transformation on people who are impacted by it?

The first in a series of posts talking about how to best work with configuration in Azure Functions

Discover Azure Data Factory's null-safe operator for referencing activity outputs that may not always exist. Learn to use it effectively.

A rundown of how to trigger an Azure Synapse pipeline run from C# code.

Summary of key themes from the Doing Data Together conference hosted virtually by The Scotsman newspaper and Edinburgh University in November 2020. The conference agenda was pivoted to focus on the use of data to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. It provided a fascinating insight into the lessons learned.