Sam Hogarth

Podcast

Beyond the Hype - Do you actually need a microfrontend?

A relatively new architectural style for building web-based applications, micro-frontends are an extension of the popular microservices pattern where the vertical slice of functionality that a microservice provides is extended all the way to the front-end. With micro-frontends, you can more easily scale your development teams by composing applications from loosely coupled frontend components. In this podcast we ask the question 'Do you actually need a micro-frontend?'

Colin Eberhardt, Sam Hogarth, Dean Kerr · 5^th Apr 2022 · 1 min read

Delivery

Sprint Goals!

Setting a Sprint Goal is a powerful means of achieving focus, motivating and inspiring your team. So why is it always forgotten about?

Sam Hogarth · 10^th Feb 2020 · 4 min read

Tech

Unit Test Your Architecture with ArchUnit

An introduction to ArchUnit; an open-source, extensible Java unit testing library for enforcing your architectural and coding rules.

Sam Hogarth · 5^th Dec 2019 · 5 min read

Delivery

Agile Is Not a Solved Problem

Agile is a thing that you are, not a thing that you do, or buy. We can't treat Agile as an off the shelf product. Focus on promoting agility.

Sam Hogarth · 23^rd Sep 2019 · 2 min read

Tech

Reflections from Build IT Right

My personal reflections on the sessions that I attended at the 2019 Build IT Right conference. Continuous Delivery, embracing conflict and fighting entropy.

Sam Hogarth · 5^th Apr 2019 · 5 min read

Tech

Evaluating Redux Saga Test Libraries

If you're a fan of Redux Saga then you will have noticed the abundance of libraries to assist testing your sagas. This post takes an in-depth look into the different approaches to testing sagas, describing where five popular testing libraries fit into these approaches.

Sam Hogarth · 16^th Jan 2018 · 14 min read

Tech

Design, Data and Redux at Bristech

Yesterday I attended (and spoke!) at the 2016 Bristech conference, an event aimed at polyglots, innovators and the "tech curious". It was a full house at the Watershed with over 400 tickets sold. I had a great time at the conference, attending quite a few talks myself. What made the conference interesting to me was the diverse range of subjects covered - design, security, even physics! Presented here are some brief notes and comments from the day's proceedings.

Sam Hogarth · 4^th Nov 2016 · 4 min read

Tech · Video

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Redux

This talk from Bristech 2016 takes a look into the use of Redux for state management in front-end React applications

Sam Hogarth · 3^rd Nov 2016

Tech

Destroying Monoliths at DDDNorth

Saturday marked the fifth annual DDD North conference, held once again at the University of Sunderland. DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! events are volunteer-organised conferences where members of the community propose and vote on the agenda. ScottLogic took part this year as a Platinum-level sponsor. We had many fantastic conversations with developers from all across the country, plus our squishy rugby ball giveaways were very popular!

Sam Hogarth · 27^th Oct 2015 · 4 min read

People

On Running a Code Club

Scott Logic have been helping out with a Code Club at a local primary school. As one of the developers involved, I'd like to share my experiences and tips for running your own Code Club!

Sam Hogarth · 4^th Dec 2013 · 4 min read

Tech

Getting Functional at DDDNorth

Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending this year's DDDNorth conference at Sunderland University.

Sam Hogarth · 18^th Oct 2013 · 5 min read

Tech

Assessing Android Fragmentation

Android is fragmented. This is a feature, not a bug. Embrace this and you embrace the future.

Sam Hogarth · 14^th Oct 2013 · 5 min read

Tech

Dispatches from DDDNorth 2

Last weekend I traveled to Bradford for the second DDDNorth conference - a community-organised developer event which featured some excellent speakers.

Sam Hogarth · 15^th Oct 2012 · 5 min read

Tech

Is the Dashboard Pattern Dead?

A look at how the Android design patterns have shifted over time

Sam Hogarth · 10^th Sep 2012 · 6 min read

Scott Logic / Altogether Smarter

Sam Hogarth

Talks