A DevOps Breakdown
“DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users.” – Microsoft DevOps is a process in which brings people together, allowing for more collaboration, [...]
This is VORB
VORB, or Voice Operational Response Bot, is a hardware enabled speech to text natural language processing Bot designed to aid operational needs. risual developers built and leveraged existing Microsoft technologies to provide these services. VORB [...]
risual and Kemp work together to optimise application cloud migration
If you’re reading this, I’m sure like many businesses across the UK you are contemplating the costs of migrating from on-prem infrastructure to the cloud, but have you considered the costs associated with migrating your [...]
Securing the Cloud with IOT
Many people are hesitant when connecting devices to the internet, they have good reason to. 2018 alone saw many attacks such as the famous Facebook attack that saw 50 million user account compromised. British Airways [...]
AI in the DevOps community
What is DevOps? DevOps, easily one of the most popular tech terms from the last few years is an amalgamation of 'development' and 'operations' It represents a fundamental way of working within the technology industry [...]
Issue Spotlight #1 – Microsoft.Bing.Speech API – Bond.IO Issues
Recently we ran into an issue when we started working with the Bing Speech API as part of our Bot-framework demo initiative. When using the latest versions of the Microsoft.Bing.Speech SDK within a Web-API we [...]
Software development – Why are soft skills so important?
So, what does that question have to do with software development. Well believe it or not it's a rather good example of a counting argument. If you look up this example, you’ll come across [...]
User experience design, what is it?
User experience design, what is it? User experience (UX) design the process of creating user-centered products. The goals/aims are to provide the user with relevant meaningful experiences. This will involve the design of the entire [...]
Mobile developments future is getting brighter
The demand for intuitive and functional mobile applications has been higher than ever, driving innovation in the mobile development industry. Digital sales continue to increase year on year. People are spending more time on their [...]
Load Testing in VSTS using self-provisioned agents
Recently we had some customer work which required us to do some simple URL-based load testing of several of their services. For this work we proposed to use the load testing facilities within VSTS to [...]