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Jacob Winch

Jacob is a Software Engineer Tools & Infrastructure at The Guardian

December 2019

  • Changes being prepared for production.

    Engineering blog
    Software quality in a world of microservices and continuous deployment

    How the role of quality assurance at the Guardian has adapted to support today’s fast-paced software landscape

September 2018

  • Internal hard drive (destroyed) from a HP Compaq 8200 elite convertible mini tower used to inspect data provided by Edward Snowden to the Guardian. Part of a collection of objects that contained copies of some of the secret National Security Agency (NSA) files leaked by Edward Snowden and destroyed on the instructions of GCHQ. The computers were destroyed using a variety of power tools at Kings Place on 20 July 2013 by a Guardian senior editor and Guardian computer expert, watched by GCHQ technicians. GNM Archive ref: GUA/12/5/1/8/2

    Engineering blog
    Using Scala string interpolation to protect logged data

    If you want to debug your code, you need comprehensive logging. But when you want to reuse the logs for alerting, how do you protect data from access by the alerting system?

December 2016

  • Pipeline inspection

    Engineering blog
    Testing in Production: rethinking the conventional deployment pipeline

    How using a lightweight continuous deployment pipeline, which focuses on production validation instead of a large suite of acceptance tests, allows us to iterate on the Membership and Subscriptions apps at speed.
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