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My first 3 months at Viva IT has changed my perspective on work and software forever.

It was on a recommendation that I attended Agile Nottingham’s Return of the Lego Simulation in Nottingham. People who had been to the first event raved about how clever and informative it was.

When I realised it had been a month I couldn’t quite believe it. Since starting here, time has escaped me and the days fly past. It’s surreal to think how much I’ve learnt, yet there’s still much more learning to be done.

We create our own web apps from the seeds of an idea and scale them up to mission critical services. Our team has experienced many growing pains of scaling such services and are pretty adept into reducing bottlenecks and profiling apps to ensure that they run efficiently.

To help new members of the team and to give an insight into how things work here, here's a few things that I would have loved to have known before I started working here.

In February 2016 we recorded over 18,000 live balance enquiries and over 1,700 withdrawals using the mobile app for a single credit union. With thousands of members logging in weekly shows just how important live access to your money is.

Like last year all our developers elected to go to PHPNW15 for three days of training, conferences and networking. What a fantastic event it was!

It’s been a month since I began working with Viva IT through my IT apprenticeship with 3AAA Leicester, and it has been such a great experience.

Aprons were equipped and change jars were emptied in preparation for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support on September the 25th, held at Dock.

We couldn't miss out on an entire day dedicated to getting the most out of one of the great frameworks that allows us to build scalable mission critical software. Symfony.