What we do

Application Development

Turning the vision into reality. Digital applications built for the enterprise: secure, reliable and easy to use.
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DevOps

Automate everything. Building applications to be secure and reliable is only part of the solution. When anything can fail at any moment and we want to release all the time, there is no place for human error.
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Cloud Managed Service

Underpinning everything, the cloud provides us with ways to provide the whole solution by leveraging the best engineering across all the streams to provide secure, reliable cost effective end-to-end solutions.
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Big Data & Machine Learning

Utilising the latest data engineering techniques to unlock data into insights. Quickly understand your business and customer, drive decision making and gain a competitive advantage.
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AEM OpenCloud

Shine’s enterprise ready, open-source platform for hosting and managing Adobe Experience Manager on the cloud.
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Latest articles & blog posts

Black Holes and Revelations

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 David Ensikat Leave a comment

This is the story of an investigation that I was recently involved in at a client. It took over a week to resolve, involved networking acronyms that seemed to increase in length each day (MTU…ICMP…PMTUD?!), and wound up with us learning all about a rather scary-sounding concept: black-hole connections.

Canary deployments with Spinnaker and Kubernetes – Part 2

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 David Ensikat Leave a comment

In part 1 of this tutorial, we briefly looked at the concept of canary deployments, and installed Jenkins and Prometheus on an EKS-based Kubernetes cluster. In this part, we will setup Spinnaker using AWS S3 as its backend. After enabling canary deployment functionality we’ll set up a canary pipeline to test our basic service.

Canary deployments with Spinnaker and Kubernetes – Part 1

October 4, 2019October 7, 2019 David Ensikat Leave a comment

In this two-part post, I’m going to explore the setup of Spinnaker on AWS EKS to do canary deployments. Our end goal will be to deploy an extremely simple golang web service that will test for increased latency post-deployment, and rollback the deployment if we exceed a certain threshold.

ComponentsConf 2019

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 Eric Chen Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago I attended ComponentsConf 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. This conference focuses on JavaScript frameworks, and I was pretty excited to attend it. This is because over the last year I have been working on a component library to be shared across a number of projects. It needs to work in everything from Drupal to Angular, and we’re still trying to find the best foundation to build it on. A conference that is framework-agnostic seemed like a good place to learn more about the options that are available.