BlakYaks is certified as a Great Place to Work® UK, achieving a whopping 99% average of all Great Place to Work® survey statements.

BlakYaks is celebrating its 1st anniversary! Today is a special day for our team as we are celebrating BlakYaks’ first full year in business. We would like to thank the Yaks, our customers, partners, and those who believe in us and support the journey we are on. We look forward to what is in store for our second year in business!  

We are happy to announce that our key services and solutions are now listed and made available for purchase on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, making our solutions more transparent and accessible for our current and future customers and partners.

Reflection is an important part of growth, it not only challenges us be critical of ourselves and the environment around us but it beautifully transforms experiences into genuine learning (A theme that will persist throughout this article) and so with my personal six month anniversary with BlakYaks fast approaching, it seemed only appropriate to take a step back from all the certifications and office comradery to reflect on what has been my first six month at BlakYaks.

We are a specialist Azure and cloud-native consultancy & engineering business based in the UK (London), delivering technology services and solutions to larger businesses. As a business, we set out with clarity regarding the technology partnerships and some cloud-native tools that are strategically important to us, and ultimately to many of our customers. Selecting a set of strategic technologies and tools is important because it drives some strategic imperatives for our business.

This blog shares key considerations for organisations (particularly technology infrastructure teams) as they navigate the transition to cloud-native enabling technologies. There is pent-up demand across the industry from application development teams wanting their infrastructure technology colleagues to provide tech tools and services that enable them to build micro-service architectures. These architectures depend on and are enabled by containers, platform-as-a-service and serverless technologies.

Designing and building Azure scaffolds, landing zones and adopting best practice from the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework and extending the platform with enterprise containers requires a number of integrations to be considered to ensure the full eco-system is working as planned.