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Latest thinking.

Contributions from buzzing minds across the agency. Here’s where our geekiness comes out to play.

A key Kyan moment: Becoming a Certified B Corporation

Kyan is a now a certified B Corporation, joining the worldwide movement committed to using business as a force for good.

Amy Johnstone 5 min read

Web Summit summarised: What we learnt in Lisbon

Once again, we visited the always excellent Web Summit Lisbon. Here’s Chris, Nick, Rebecca and Tom with their highlights from this year’s trip.

Chris Cannacott 6 min read

Going with the flow: When Scrum meets Kanban

Kyan Scrum evangelist and Head of Delivery, Chris Cannacott, shares his thoughts on what happens when Scrum meets Kanban, and an effective way to i...

Piers Palmer 6 min read

The Great Gong Wall of Kyan and other experiments in wellness

As the online conversation around remote working dies down, the challenge is no longer operations or culture, but instead, employee wellbeing.

Nick Linnell 3 min read

A brief introduction to Composable Architecture

What is Composable Architecture? Our Head of Engineering, Nick Linnell, gives us a brief intro and how it relates to the work we do as a technology...

Josh Jimenez Bedrock 4 min read

Problem solving, confidence boosting and focus: what I’ve learnt from gaming

Kyan Software Engineer, Josh, explores that parallels between coding and gaming, and how levelling up and teamwork has made him a better developer.

Stephen Dawson 9 min read

Can user experience strategy and sustainable web design go hand-in-hand?

As digital becomes more capable, our products have sought to deliver richer experiences. But a saturation of quality hasn’t equated to efficiency.

Farhad Ajaz 5 min read

Accessing a GKE internal service from the API Gateway

How we can get a publicly accessible endpoint (or API) to talk to an internal non-public application? Kyan Software Engineer, Farhad Ajaz, shares h...