Kubernetes Manchester: What We Learnt

Attending meetups is one of the best parts of working at Bytemark. Companies and individuals come together to share experiences, ideas and new technologies, inspiring us to learn more. One of the most exciting technologies to emerge in recent years is Kubernetes – and with over 100 attendees filling the room at the first ever […]

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What is Cloud Native?

If you work in software development, or even just have an interest in tech, then you’ve probably heard the term ‘Cloud Native’ mentioned increasingly often over the past few years. But what does cloud native actually mean, and how is it different from cloud-enabled, cloud-first, or any other cloud-[insert adjective here] approach? Definition The Cloud […]

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Certified Scrum Product Owner Training: What We Learned

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) training is a course which focuses on improving and consolidating understanding of key agile concepts. It includes practical workshops, informal discussions between Product Owners from a range of industries, and sharing tactics for overcoming common problems with Scrum. Our very own Product Owner, Peter, recently attended a CSPO course and […]

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Introducing a Bright New Identity for Bytemark

Bytemark was founded back in 2002 and over the last 16 years, we have custom-built our own hosting platform which has continually evolved, adding new services and features to ensure we always offer you the fast, flexible and reliable hosting that you need. But, despite constantly developing our tech, our look as a company has […]

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What We’ve Shipped: Simple Load Balancing

In this ‘What We’ve Shipped’, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added load balancers to Bytemark Cloud, enabling you to build scalable websites and applications easily, increase the performance of your existing infrastructure and add redundancy to critical services.   Update: Bytemark load balancers have since been improved by the addition of ‘Sticky Session’ support. Our […]

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What We’ve Shipped: Docker on Debian

We love Docker, as it makes deploying web-based applications much simpler by packaging them (and all the libraries and dependencies they need) in containers. We’re in the process of rebuilding many of our internal systems to use Docker and other cloud-native technologies, as well as using it for our own self-hosting requirements. To enable you […]

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A new chapter as Bytemark moves up the stack

You and thousands of other developers have trusted Bytemark since Peter and I founded the company in 2002. Since then we’ve built our own cloud hosting platform, our own data centre in York, and hundreds of custom managed hosting solutions. We’ve built our own support & engineering teams, after first building our own anonymous recruitment […]

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