Join Sam, Ariella, Richard Pearson, and Soph Yiangou as they explore the world of incident management, sharing insights and strategies for effectively handling unexpected challenges. Discover how we stay prepared and turn surprises into opportunities for growth.

Data Science Manager Francis Barrett joins Leon & Sam to explain what Data Science is, and how we use it at Moonpig.

Links

FYI: For Your Improvement - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/847538

Ariella and Richard are joined by the incredible Rav Bumbra - founder of Cajigo. Together, they'll be diving into Cajigo's mission to empower more women into tech and exploring how Moonpig supports this journey.

Leon is joined by Principal Product Designer Hayley Cattlin-Weaver and Senior Software Engineer Jason Prouse who take us through five principles they formed during the build of one of Moonpig's recent innovative features.

Join Alex & Ava as they take you on the journey of Moonpig's first AI powered feature. From hackathon idea to multilingual implementation, discover how we use AI to help our customers craft personalised messages for their cards, and what we learnt along the way. 

Join Maeve - @MaeveScarry and Leon - @DocLeon as we introduce you to the world of Hackathons - what they are, how we run them at Moonpig and what benefits they bring. In this episode we will talk to the organiser of our most recent Hackathon (Ben - @riggydigs) and a few participants (Megan, Sam - @makesomenoiiise and Luke).

Moonpig career's page: https://www.moonpig.com/uk/blog/moonpig-careers/

In our latest podcast episode, we talk with Senior Software Engineer Jake Smith about the impact of AI programming assistants on the coding landscape. Jake discusses how these tools enhance efficiency by simplifying coding, providing instant error detection, and debugging. He also highlights their role in inspiring innovation and creative problem-solving. Join us to hear Jake's insights on how AI programming assistants are reshaping productivity and the future of software development.

⁠GitHub CoPilot⁠

Nick Chapsas - I let GitHub Copilot be the Pilot for my C# code

Head Of Engineering Richard Pearson (@catdevnull) joins Leon & Richard to reveal how we’ve enabled our development teams to focus on delivering business value.

SPACE: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3454124

DORA: https://www.leanix.net/en/wiki/vsm/dora-metrics

Measuring Developer Productivity: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/developer-productivity-a-new-framework 

Team Topologies: https://teamtopologies.com/book

We already know AWS Lambdas are a great serverless way to run code and at Moonpig we take full advantage of that, with billions of function invocations per month. Principal Developer and AWS Community Builder Ryan Cormack (@ryancormack) joins Ariella & Maeve to share some top tips to keep them running fast and cost effectively, using some of the learnings we’ve had from a cost optimisation and tuning drive here at Moonpig.

AWS Skill Builder:

Cloud Resume Challenge: