Our full stack developers are able to deliver frontend and backend solutions in a broad range of languages, using a variety of frameworks, adapting to the needs of our clients. Much of our work now centres around delivering cloud based solutions, where our cloud certified engineers work to design and deliver highly scalable and resilient infrastructure and services. Cloud is not our only field of expertise, our engineers have delivered mobile apps, local services and software. We have helped our clients maintain, enhance and migrate legacy systems to more efficient, maintainable and future proof solutions.

Our teams bring together best practice in Agile & DevOps methodologies when designing and delivering solutions for our clients. Our engineers recognise the importance of agility, and are responsive to our fluidity in requirements. Continuous feedback loops ensure our focus is on the delivery of value for our customers. Our engineering teams use automation tooling such as GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy and Azure DevOps in our in build, test and deployment pipelines to test code changes being introduced against existing functionality, ensure high quality, validate against our coding and security standards, and deploy to each environment in a repeatable, reliable and least disruptive manner Infrastructure creation and modification is also automated as standard practice in our pipelines. Utilising tools such as Terraform and Ansible we can enable consistent deployment across all client environments, benefit from industry best practices, remove the risk associated with manual changes, and ensure visibility of changes and infrastructure spend.

Answer’s DevOps practices adopt a “test first” approach to development, ensuring good coverage of automated tests enable us to find defects early, allowing for quick and stable releases of reliable and robust software.

Answer core value “Nurturation” highlights our belief that growth and development is important, and the best way to achieve this is nurturing skills development through collaboration, this extends to the work we do with our clients. We approach client projects with a single team mentality. As we bring in a broad range of expertise we take this opportunity to transfer knowledge and upskill our clients engineers and associated team members. Putting our clients in the best position to run and maintain the software and systems we have built together.