Earlier this month I attended my very first Web Summit. Here are the three things I would advise to anyone else going as a first timer for next year… Luke Hennerley, Principal Engineer at Sidetrade What is Web Summit? Web Summit has come to be known as one of the world’s biggest and best…

For anyone who might be interested in relocating to this fantastic city By Ian Cadman, Director of Engineering at Sidetrade Birmingham has been placed in the world’s spotlight over the last couple of weeks as the Commonwealth Games descended on the city. For those of you that don’t know, the…

Reduce test execution time with the flexibility to run against different browser versions Authors: Oliver Agar, Senior Software Development Engineer in Test Engineering at Sidetrade Sam Berry, Software Development Engineer in Test Engineering at Sidetrade Simon Parr, Senior Software Developer in Test Engineering at Sidetrade Here at Sidetrade, we have…

By Luke Hennerley As a techie in any discipline, it can be hard to keep up with the ever-shifting landscape and so many information sources. Recently in Sidetrade’s Birmingham office, a few of us have been discussing the evolution of “Tech Twitter” which is exactly what it says on the…

A key part of our cash collection service involves document conversion from HTML templates to DOC, XLS or PDF. After years of usage, our current solution causes us conversion issues from time to time and we also started seeing limitations such as difficulty of integrating it into new APIs. At…

The problem — Do you trust your data? By Victor Bouvier, Data Scientist at Sidetrade Before deploying a machine learning (ML) model into a product, we need to evaluate its performance. A well-adopted practice is to split the data into a train set (data used for training the model) and…

By Christelle Dhrif, Chief Communications Officer at Sidetrade. Birmingham Tech Week became the largest regional technology festival in the UK after its hugely successful inaugural event last year. It attracted more than 5,000 attendees to seminars and workshops held across the city. Birmingham now has around 6,000 tech companies that…

By James Vickery, Jamie Hennerley and Yassine Fastani A hackathon aims to produce exciting and valuable projects while providing an opportunity for teams from different countries to build new work relationships. After eleven hackathons, which typically consisted of our entire R&D flying out to Paris, our twelfth was a challenge…

R&D Superheroes By Luke Hennerley, Lead Application Engineer at Sidetrade Covid-19 forced many businesses to re-evaluate and understand how they can emerge in a position of strength in a post-pandemic world. As lockdowns forced cinemas to close across the globe, we all faced a summer without superheroes. …