The Death of the Business Analyst
By Matthew Gaskell In the early days of software development, the role of the Business Analyst (BA) played an integral part in creating new applications for business use. However, over the years this has evolved into something that is highly flexible and adaptive to change. Essentially, the BA used to be a translator linking business […]
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How AWS Well-Architected reviews help instil best practice from the ground up
By Darryl Govender One of the many questions our customers often ask us is, how do they ensure that their workloads are performant, cost effective and secure according to cloud best practices? An apt question considering that more and more customers, and partners alike, are realizing the benefits of increased speed, reduced cost and the […]
Can we Measure Happiness?
By Marais Neethling July is an important date in every Cloud evangelist’s diary as it’s the annual AWS Cape Town Summit. And this year, Synthesis displayed our most interesting and fun demo yet at our exhibition stand. Synthesis is an annual sponsor and exhibiter at the AWS Cape Town Summit. And this year was no […]
The skills shortage in South Africa
By Michael Shapiro There is a tragic irrationality in the fact that South Africa has a youth unemployment rate of more than 50%, but at the same time has a skills shortage in many areas of commerce. One of these areas is the technology space, where according to Sunday Times’s Business Times, South African banks […]
Coffee with Tom Wells – Chief Disruption Officer
At Synthesis we are aware that personalization needs personality. That is why we nurture an environment of creativity and innovation.
Regulatory Reimagined
By Jake Shepherd In 2016, Absa, FNB, Nedbank and Standard Bank cut ties with Gupta-owned businesses and shut down their bank accounts. The government at the time accused the banks of collusion and tried to browbeat the banks to reverse their decisions. The banks did not budge and this moral courage to stand up for […]
Five lessons I learnt from a client
By Howard Feldman Ask South Africans to list home grown companies and they will most likely rattle off the likes of SAB, Discovery and Sasol. They might speak of Elon Musk of Tesla and Mark Shuttleworth as leading entrepreneurs, as well as people like Christian Barnard, Gary Player and Charlize Theron who have made us […]
REST(ful) in peace …
We obviously all love REST, and it’s become the standard, least-surprising choice to make when building any type of service these days – be it monolithic, microservice, web, or whatever. However, a fundamental change in the way we build new systems is approaching. It’s already starting to emerge in the hyperscale enterprise space, and it’s […]