I love software architecture diagrams. Good examples harness the strengths of both linguistic and visual communication to reach pinnacles of precision, clarity, and richness. I even love bad diagrams — which is most of them — for the earnest optimism...

As you may be aware, we have recently launched a new Clojure specific meetup hosted at Funding Circle’s London office. The aim is to bring the wider Clojure community closer together to share knowledge, network and eat some pizza. We were back with...

Starting at a new company is an intense period; one that, for most of us, goes by in a blur of introductions and meetings, interleaved with some moments of calm. Looking back at my first week all I can say is: it was intense, fun and well worth it...

We have been using Swift at Funding Circle for a couple of years now. One particular subject that was interesting to get to the bottom of was the usage of weak vs unowned reference types. Why are there three ways (strong, weak, unowned) of referencing...

Debugging Kafka Connect Sinks

When we had to scale into billions of dollars of originations and multiple currencies at the same time here at Funding Circle, we chose Kafka for our new global marketplace lending platform. We still have a legacy stack...