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Building Software for a Billion Users: The Architecture Behind Planet-Scale Platforms

A sharper look at what planet-scale architecture actually demands, why the same pressures now exist across financial services, and why firms that still treat architecture as a backend concern are...
Apr 21, 2026

AI in Recruitment: Smarter Hiring or Algorithmic Risk?

AI reshapes tech recruitment: benefits, bias risks, and how candidates thrive in 2026...
Mar 18, 2026

Smart Homes, Smart Risks: The Convenience of Connected Devices - and the Security Cost

Smart devices can reduce friction in daily life, but they also expand the attack surface of the modern home. Here’s what that means for privacy, security, and the talent needed to build safer...
Feb 18, 2026

The Cloud: Evolution, Impact, And Modern Applications

Examining the evolution of the Cloud, its uses, and benefits to businesses, trading systems and ordinary people…
Jan 26, 2026

Interchangeable or Standalone Terms? Understanding the Differences Between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning...

A case study into the differences between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning...
Dec 30, 2025

The Darker Side of AI: Defence Enhancer or Attack Enabler?

A case study into the distinctions between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning...
Dec 10, 2025

How Did Artificial Intelligence Evolve - and What Does It Mean for the Future of Finance?

The History of AI - From Ancient Curiosity to Modern Investment...
Nov 04, 2025

Why Top Security Engineers Reject Your Offers (And How to Stop Letting Them Slip Away)

Here’s the truth: when a top security engineer says “no, thanks”, it’s rarely about the money. More often, it’s the message that’s been sent - directly or indirectly.
Oct 02, 2025

Encouraging and Supporting Women in Technology

Joe Pocock speaks to Nilo Rahmani about her experiences as a female technologist and her advice on approaching a new role
Dec 03, 2022

Lessons from Log4Shell

Dr. Wendy Ng digs into Log4Shell vulnerability attacks, how it can occur, and ways organisations can protect themselves.
Jun 09, 2022

A Zero Trust World

How the trend of verifying identity online through multi-factor authentication has been accelerated during the pandemic
Aug 31, 2021

The Evolution of Security

Dr. Wendy Ng looks at changes in the approach towards cyber security, up to the current era of DevSecOps
Jun 07, 2021

The Innovation of an Industry-Leading Crypto Platform

Pavel Matveev, CEO and Co-Founder of digital payments platform Wirex, shares his insights on the founding of his firm and the future of cryptocurrencies
May 06, 2021

Explaining NFTs and custody solutions

We explore non-fungible tokens and their place in the future of financial services, with Trustology's Founder and CEO, Alex Batlin
Mar 31, 2021

Using Agile Techniques To Build Data Products

Chris Brown offers an insight into his highly data-driven team, and their approach to product development
Feb 23, 2021

Security Integration into the SDLC

Dr Wendy Ng breaks down the stages, processes, and connectivity of current application security toolsets within the SDLC
Feb 08, 2021

A Brief Introduction Into Cryptocurrencies

For those who are just starting to explore decentralised finance, we've put together a basic introduction into exactly what cryptocurrencies are, and what they mean for the future of finance
Dec 21, 2020

Lessons from a Global Transformation Initiative

Dr. Wendy Ng summarises lessons learned based on a BrightTalk presentation for the Information Systems Security Association
Dec 16, 2020

Decoding an Ethereum Transaction

This is a highly technical piece written by the team at Trustology, the leading crypto custodians, exploring the code behind decentralised finance transactions
Dec 02, 2020

Detection of Unauthorised Changes in the DevSecOps pipeline

An insight into the tools used for detecting unauthorised changes in a DevSecOps environment
Nov 10, 2020

What to do about Data Teams

Chris Brown offers insight into flawed data analytics and engineering teams, and what the solution may be
Nov 04, 2020

Is Data the New Gold?

Dr. Wendy Ng looks at the values we can extract from data to influence our future decisions
Oct 30, 2020

Risk Evaluation and Management

A look at how important it is for an organisation's Board to truly understand technology, so to best determine the strategic direction
Oct 02, 2020

Reliability, reliability, reliability.

We explore the role site reliability engineering plays for fintech start-up Ziglu
Sep 08, 2020

Data Platforms - Why you need one, Even if you think you don't

Chris Brown shares his insights on the importance of any organisation having a data platform, and ensuring it's executed in the correct way
Aug 24, 2020

2020

Dr. Wendy Ng brings some positivity and optimism back into our lives
Aug 18, 2020

The coolest start-up on the block

We talk to Hoos Badakhchani, CTO at Ziglu, about their crypto trading platform
Aug 12, 2020

Secure, Resilient, Scalable - are you ready for Ethereum 2.0?

We continue to explore the Decentralised Finance landscape with leading crypto custodians, Trustology. In this post we look ahead to Ethereum's upgrade to ETH 2.0
Aug 05, 2020

The Journey from DevOps and Application Security to DevSecOps

Exploring the importance of trust in a scalable, automated world
Jul 28, 2020

DeFi-ning Secure Storage for Cryptoassets

In a series of articles, we explore the world of decentralised finance (DeFi) with Trustology, the leading cryptoasset custodial solution provider.
Jul 20, 2020

The Road to the Cloud - The Story of Public vs Private

Dr. Wendy Ng examines the technical and financial pros and cons of adopting private or public cloud
Jun 25, 2020

Multi-Asset Trading in a Cloud-Native Era

How to utilise cloud technologies to transform buy-side trading
Jun 04, 2020

Lessons from Electronic Infections

My past career in biology, the journey and the subsequent transition to the electronic arena were shared in a previous blog.
Jun 04, 2020