I had the luck (and I say this considering the number of talented engineers within Shine) of attending AWS re:Invent…
This (and why it’s so weird in JavaScript)
A lot of people come to JavaScript from languages like Java. And, at first glance, the languages seem kind of similar - they even have similar names! Of course, it soon becomes apparent that there are some pretty important differences. For example, Java is object-oriented, statically typed and lexically scoped. JavaScript isn't these things (except sometimes, when it is). And one of the places that these differences are really obvious is in the use of the keyword this.
Shearwater Capture The Flag 2018
As part of Shine's commitment to always be levelling ourselves up in security, a bunch of us decided to have a go at a CTF (capture the flag) competition.
Drift detection in Cloudformation: A first look
If you are following the 'What's new in AWS' page like many AWS professionals do, you must have noticed the new drift detection support that was announced recently. We have dived into this new feature and this article is about what we have found so far.
Using Webpack to Unleash Your Drupal 8 Project with Modern JavaScript
With the release of Drupal 8.4, it is starting to use ES6 in core. However, there is not yet a standard practice to write ES6 in custom modules and themes.
Here, we show you our way of achieving this.
DDD Melbourne Conference 2018
DDD stands for Developers Developers Developers! (presumably taken from the famous Steve Ballmers on-stage chant) It is an inclusive, non-profit conference for the software community. This year, DDD Melbourne was held on 15th September 2018 at Town Hall in Melbourne CBD.
Road to InSpec(t) AEM (OpenCloud)
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is an enterprise web content management system that, like many other enterprise applications, is a complex piece of software to set up and configure. AEM OpenCloud is an open source project being led by Shine Solutions that automates the setup of a complete ready-to-use AEM environment in the cloud within 15 minutes. In this post I'll talk about why and how we used InSpec to implement automated testing in OpenCloud.
OWASP AppSec Day 2018 – Melbourne
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity via Shine recently to attend the inaugural OWASP AppSec Day 2018 (Melbourne) at RMIT. Security professionals from around the globe gave some insightful talks into the state of secure application development in 2018. In this post I'll share you some of the key insights I gained from these talks.
Deploying a full stack application to Google Kubernetes Engine
Today I’ll be showing you how I got my feet wet with Kubernetes and deployed my PoC full stack web application to Google’s Kubernetes Engine.
Forecasting weather with BigQuery ML
Weather forecast is a complicated process. If you live in an area with lots of oscillation in weather like us…
