The gendered question
By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manger Women’s Day sets the tone for August. It encourages us to us examine the advances of women in society. It inspires article upon article on what it is like to be a woman in every sphere. What always interests me is that you never see the question of what […]
RDS Monitoring
By Matthew Crockett, Synthesis Digital and Emerging tech Principal Projects Custodian Problem Part of the modernisation of a Microsoft workload and deploying it to AWS will include migrating the database from an on-prem Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon RDS, with any of the database flavors that you could wish for. Monitoring these databases can be […]
Preparing your Microsoft .NET service to be hosted on the cloud
By Dean Maier, Synthesis Cloud Project Lead Whether you are already underway on your cloud migration journey and modernising your applications or are just looking to run an existing service in the cloud, this guide will assist you with some of the checklist items you should consider. Microsoft has two primary frameworks or SDK’s that are used for service development and these are namely .NET framework and .NET core. You can read more information here. Legacy […]
Monitoring Microsoft Workloads with AWS CloudWatch
By Darryl Govender, Head of Cloud Services AWS has long supported the built-in capability to monitor Windows Server workloads, through the use of the unified CloudWatch Agent. Quick to install, through the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Run Command, SSM State Manager, or from the CLI, the CloudWatch Agent enables the simple collection of metrics and logs; which can then be […]
Pivot or Persevere: Advice from a Solutionist
By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager Tracy Morris shares her story from working her to way to the top to being a mother of three to overcoming introversion. Often, behind the humblest of individuals sits the greatest insight. This is what I found when I interviewed Tracy Morris in her unique role as Head […]
Judging the GirlCode Hackathon
By Kayleigh Slogrove, Synthesis Software Developer The GirlCode organisation aims to inspire young women to become developers. They have many different programs such as workshops, training programs and a yearly hackathon. This year, I had the pleasure of being one of the judges for this incredible hackathon. I have participated in hackathons before but this […]
Mandela Day: Sharing warmth with Synthesis and Afrika Tikkun
For the past ten years, and continuing this year, Synthesis Software Technologies (Synthesis) has celebrated Mandela Day with Afrika Tikkun, an organisation committed to developing and uplifting people living in underprivileged communities, and a nominated partner with the government for the Covid-19 relief fund and its efforts to distribute information, sanitation and food parcels. Synthesis […]
67 in 2020
By Belinda Unterslak, Synthesis Events and Marketing Coordinator The 18th of July, Nelson Mandela’s birthday, also known as Mandela Day, is once again upon us. The day has been marked as an annual international day and adopted by the United Nations, in honour of Nelson Mandela. Mandela Day was inspired by Nelson Mandela himself, when […]
Synthesis ‘taps’ into the future of payments
Synthesis launches Halo – the secure, instant, contactless payment solution set to enable all businesses. Synthesis, an innovative software development and consulting company has launched ‘Halo’, becoming the first official Tap on Phone technology provider in Africa. In collaboration with Nedbank, the Tap on Phone solution was unveiled on the 30th of June. Halo is […]
Big Data: The Gold Mine Waiting to be Mined
By Archana Arakkal, Synthesis Lead Machine Learning Engineer Source: Engineer IT The longer I am in the technology industry, the more I realise that big data is an area that has not been well explored. The capabilities and potential are infinite however why has this not been explored? Traditionally Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence […]