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Creating financial momentum for 4 million customers with three simple engineering principles
By Mark Durrand, CTO
Nov 30th 2021Like any business, as TotallyMoney has grown, principles have been needed to ensure everyone works to the same standards and to achieve the same aims…Tech
The F-sharpest knife in our drawer
By TotallyMoney
Feb 24th 2020On Thursday 13th February, TotallyMoney hosted its first F#unctional Londoners meetup
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1,000 pull requests and counting
By Nick Blair
Jun 4th 2018Today marks a special occasion: we've reached 1000 Pull Requests in our 'My Account' code repository. This shows a successful cumulative effort by a…Tech
Building a Data-Driven Culture
By Jack Mitchell
Mar 20th 2018Data-driven decision making: the reality Data enables us to take risks out of decisions by confirming assumptions, as well as helping us to measure…Tech
Don’t Looker back in anger
By Alasdair Fowler
Feb 13th 2018Towards the end of 2017, the Marketing Team heard rumours of a new data analytics platform to replace the ‘Viper’ interface, which we built in-house…Tech
Creating a personalised offers page for customers
By Antonio Tella
Jan 31st 2018In 2017, TotallyMoney created Borrowing Power to help customers understand how likely they are to get credit. Last week, with the launch of the new…Tech
The Polyglot Pipeline
By Nick Blair
Nov 30th 2017The two prevailing languages at TotallyMoney are JavaScript and C# (.net). A typical product of ours is composed of a JavaScript frontend and a .net…Tech
Hey, good lookin’, what ya got cookin’?
By Adria Luz
Nov 8th 2017At TotallyMoney, we face a set of challenges that I am certain are not unique to our company. Data is not easily accessible to everyone because our…Tech
How We Built a Free Credit Report
By Mark Durrand
Oct 25th 2017We recently launched our new free credit report on TotallyMoney and we had to do it in a fairly short time with a small team. To be fair, small…Tech
The Building Behind Building a Fairer Consumer Credit Market
By Bella Taylor
Oct 11th 2017TotallyMoney’s mission has always been to help customers get a better deal from the credit industry and to build a fairer credit market for consumers…Tech
Elm at the helm: Working with a new programming language
By Alex Owusu-Ansah
May 31st 2017At TotallyMoney.com we are using Elm to create an internal administration tool. Elm, being a functional programming language, was quite different from…Tech
Front end stylist - the new position every company should hire for
By Benny Zuffolini
Feb 10th 2017I was lucky to start my career at the right time, in the late 2000s. Back then a designer would typically draw something and the developer would pick…Tech
Sittin' On the Docker of the API
By Steve Westwood
Jul 8th 2016Continuing the theme of Microsoft’s recent endeavours to move their entire development stack towards a platform agnostic, more Open Source world, I…Tech
(Some) rules of software development that might apply in the rest of your life
By Nick Blair
May 12th 2016Many of these rules relate to software development, but can be applied more broadly and produce some interesting learnings for business. Occam's Razor…Tech
Rust: What you need to know about this new systems programming language
By James Waples
May 5th 2016Rust is a systems programming language designed to be safe and fast, both very useful things when writing a production web service. I needed to parse…Tech
Cleaning up Docker images on Jenkins build machines
By James Waples
Mar 10th 2016We use Jenkins to build production-ready Docker images here at TotallyMoney. The setup works really well, but we encounter regular problems with high…Tech
Birth of an App
By Willem van der Merwe
Jan 19th 2016Here's a visualisation of the evolution of the TotallyMoney.com loans comparison platform. The video shows the creation of files and changes made to…Tech
Carry on up the Amazon
By Mark Durrand
Nov 18th 2015If I’m honest, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Enterprise Summit in London was a little bit of a sales conference, with Andy Jassy, the Senior VP for…Tech
Optimising Trustpilot customer review invitations using unique links…and open sourcing our solution
By Cloud Quinn
Nov 3rd 2015At TotallyMoney.com, we love helping our customers make good decisions supported by reliable information. When it comes to evaluating our products…