Principles of flow: How to move fast and not break things
Source: ITWeb By Jonty Sidney, Synthesis Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer By automating the software build and deployment process, a team can truly begin to move quicker, reducing the number of catastrophic errors in their applications. Dr Eliyahu Goldratt developed the theory of constraints in his 1984 book “The Goal”. The goal, in terms of […]
DevOps: The pillars of operational excellence
Source: ITWeb 17 December 2021 By Jonty Sidney, Synthesis Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer When we believe DevOps only relates to technical teams, we underestimate its value and we will never experience its true strength and power. DevOps is the practise of combining the development work and operations work of a software project. Its goal […]
The Final Act
By Nomkhosi Nhlapo, Synthesis Office Administrator It was that time of the year again when Synthesis would change young learners’ lives. The task was simple, and it was dubbed the Final Act for 2020. We wanted to close a difficult year with acts of kindness. Each year we collect funds for Afrika Tikkun. These funds […]
Black Friday – High Risk: High Reward
By Howard Feldman, Synthesis Head of Marketing & People. Black Friday is what happens when the dangerous mixture of anxiety and excitement are blended in a retail test tube. Although we might think that we know what is going to happen, the result is almost never as predictable as we would like it to be; […]
How a South African Tech company handled COVID
By Howard Feldman – Head of Synthesis Marketing and People It didn’t begin with a strategy. Rather, it began with a simple understanding that if the virus were to make its way to South Africa, that it would be better if we were prepared. Whatever that meant. What was clear to me was that if […]
Running with scissors: What the Innovators Do Best
10 November 2020 By Kim Furman, Synthesis Marketing Manager The world of managed services has seen a radical revolution from the old ways of working to the new to support dramatic and iterative innovation in support of Agile software development. Mothers for generations have been correctly telling their children not to run with scissors, but […]
Modernise, Cost Optimise and Revolutionise with AWS
by Chad Epstein Cloud Migration Practice Lead The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation journey of enterprises towards increased use of cloud computing technologies. According to an IDC study, customers that move their Windows workloads to AWS will see a 56% reduction in the cost of operations over five years, and a 442% increase […]
14 Reasons why you should consider automating your trade reporting solution
By Steyn Basson, Synthesis Divisional Director Synthesis has been involved in the trade reporting space for almost two decades in some form or another. Head of Markets IT/ Treasury and Operations of the largest South African banks have approached us over these years to streamline JSE integration for Fixed Income Trade reporting. They wanted to avoid the hefty risks that come […]
Achieving Operational Excellence with Terraform
20 October 2020 By: Jared Naude, Cloud Architect – Synthesis Software Technologies As companies go to cloud, they must adopt a new operating model to effectively build and run their environment. In this blog post, which is the first part of a two-part series, we will explore a few key aspects of unlocking the cloud operating model and achieving operational excellence during the cloud […]
Synthesis hosts panel discussion on cyber security risks, skills and what we can do about it
Published by IT Web Synthesis, a leading South African strategic technology partner and highly specialised software and systems developer, launched its inaugural online panel discussion, hosting several experts and personalities in the technology space. ABSA’s Group Chief Security Officer Sandro Bucchianeri; Discovery Insure CEO Anton Ossip; Internet pioneer and technology investor Ronnie Apteker; and Synthesis business analyst Matthew […]