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Welcome to the Green Gorilla Automation blog where operators, founders, and technical leaders come to think more clearly about systems.

This isn’t a generic tech news feed. It’s a working library of practical insight drawn from real-world automation projects, internal tool builds, and digital transformation work inside growing SMEs.

Here, we unpack what actually makes automation succeed (or fail). From composable architecture and API integrations to workflow design, UX for internal tools, and AI as a teammate. Every article is grounded in execution, not theory.

You’ll find breakdowns of:

  • How to reduce operational friction with better system design

  • When to build vs. buy software

  • How to approach digital transformation without chaos

  • Practical automation patterns that create measurable ROI

  • Lessons learned from scaling internal platforms

We write for decision-makers who care about clarity, leverage, and long-term resilience, not just quick wins.

If you’re responsible for improving operations, increasing efficiency, or future-proofing your systems, this is where strategy meets implementation.

Green Gorilla Automation builds systems that work quietly in the background. Reliable, scalable, and intentionally designed. This blog explains how and why.

Explore, challenge assumptions, and build better infrastructure.

Deconstructing your work (and maybe your life)

As software developers we’re constantly tasked with taking on large-scale projects and breaking them down into smaller, more manageable development projects. In fact, the single most important facet of ‘Agile’ (the development methodology we use...
Jun 27, 2014

GGA Dev Insights: Using Vim as a multi-language IDE

Last year, I wrote a post about using Vim as a PHP IDE. It turned out to be pretty popular, and I’ve been updating it despite the fact that I now write considerably more ruby than PHP. One of the things I love about vim is the level of support for...
May 16, 2014

An environment for working with multiple Rails projects

This post explains how I use nginx and dnsmasq in my development environment to streamline the process of working with several Rails projects. The nature of my work means that I work on a large number of Ruby on Rails projects, and I often switch...
May 16, 2014

The key to working smarter not harder: Prioritise!

In a previous blog we discussed the importance of planning your day (read it here). Following on from that article, it became obvious that we had overlooked passing on a critical lesson to you. At GGA, we’ve spent a lot of time analysing how we...
May 12, 2014

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