The power of open source: From Postgres to Cassandra at First Utility

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First Utility CIO Bill Wilkins talks to Graeme Burton about how open-source technology helped the company become the biggest independent energy utility in the UK

When Bill Wilkins joined energy provider First Utility, he faced a peculiar IT challenge based on architectural decisions that had been made soon after the company was founded - and which were now ...

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