Adventures of the greatest mother of all time. A hard post to write. Sometimes people make choices that are difficult to understand.

Askham Hall in Cumbria opened in spring 2014 with a restaurant spread through three unique rooms, 12 bedrooms with a spa and outdoor heated pool, gardens and café open to the public and a converted party barn. Its style? A luxurious, intimate, unpretentious home from home which is up-to-date, full of charm and somewhere you can kick off your wellies at the front door.

While building the first version of DataPad we had to engineer our way around limitations in the status quo in server-side data technology to be able to deliver ultra-fast analytics to many users simultaneously, and at low operating cost. Despite our successes, we quickly realized that this was an important battle we should not wage alone.