Synthesis visits the project day of the NWU Computer Science Grads

On Thursday, 12 October, Synthesis visited the school of Computer Science and Information Systems at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (NWU PUK) to assess the projects of the IT Honours students. The day began with students delivering concise 5-minute presentations outlining their project’s objectives, approaches, and outcomes. The array of projects spanned diverse […]

Synthesis visits the project day of the NWU Computer Science Grads

NWU Project Day

On Thursday, 20 October, Synthesis visited the school of Computer Science and Information Systems at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (NWU PUK) to assess the projects of the IT Honours students. The day started off with each student giving a quick 3-minute project overview presentation which included the goals, methodologies, and findings of […]

Achieving Operational Excellence with Terraform

Hashicorp

20 October 2020 By: Jared Naude, Cloud Architect – Synthesis Software Technologies  As companies go to cloud, they must adopt a new operating model to effectively build and run their environment. In this blog post, which is the first part of a two-part series, we will explore a few key aspects of unlocking the cloud operating model and achieving operational excellence during the cloud […]

The Impact of Cloud Computing on Data Centres

The impact of Cloud computing on data centres

By Jared Naude, Synthesis Cloud Architect In the era of rapid technological change, organisations have had to adapt the way that they do business to respond to the rapidly changing needs of customers and to future-proof their businesses. To be at the forefront of innovation and to maintain a competitive edge, development teams need to […]

Vacation Programmes: Unlocking Creative Potential

Vac work

By Luke Machowski, Specialist Product Architect Talented youth are often blocked from entering the working world because they lack experience. This is where the vacation programme mitigates the problem. These programmes are the incubators for innovation, immersion and exploration. Individuals just need to be given an opportunity and an environment that promotes their success. Synthesis has been […]

AWS re:Invent 2019: Parting Thoughts

By: Jared Naude Amazon Web Service’s annual re:Invent conference took place last week in Las Vegas, Nevada and attracted over 65 000 attendees from around the world. Over 2 800 sessions including 4 keynotes were held across 7 venues where a total of 77 new announcements were made – ranging from computation, networking, security, storage […]

Synthesis joins Confluent Partner Programme

Financial technology consulting company Synthesis Software Technologies (Synthesis) is pleased to announce joining the Confluent Partner Programme as a value-added reseller. Confluent is the developer of a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. The founders of Confluent created Apache Kafka, an open source technology that […]

Synthesis announces HashiCorp Partnership

Specialised financial technology company Synthesis Software Technologies (Synthesis) is pleased to announce a partnership with Hashicorp. Founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012, HashiCorp is a leading multi-cloud automation software company that is based in San Francisco and has the goal of creating the Cloud Operating Model, revolutionising data centre management across application […]