Only 5% of Generative AI tools reach production, and there is a good reason for it.The new world of AI tools is set to storm the market. In only the first half of 2025, more than $44 Billion has already poured into GenAI investment and...
I once again had the opportunity to head to Snowflake’s world tour in Sydney, and thought I would take the time to summarise some of the things I took away from the conference. If you're interested in what I thought last year, you can read...
While we would all like to think everything we do is perfect, mistakes happen from time to time. People can select the wrong versions for deployment by mistake, bugs in the infrastructure we build can result in incorrect artefacts being deployed, or even breakdowns in...
In my previous post, I wrote about how I used AWS DMS to create an Oracle database replica in Aurora PostgreSQL. I touched on how my tests uncovered slow query performance and how using the query plan management extension helped me to achieve comparable execution...
Recently, I got involved in an cloud application uplift project. As part of the project we wanted to use an Aurora PostgreSQL database to offload all read activities from a RDS Oracle Database Standard Edition.Since this was such an exciting and educational experience, I wanted...
The Shine attendees (from left to right): Doug Hagan, Tyrus Caldeira and Michael LeroyAfter a massive week of announcements, AWS re:Invent is all done and dusted for 2023, so it’s time for a recap on how it was from myself and the two other Shiners...
In this post I'm going to talk about some of the things I’ve learnt working on many different projects where AWS CloudFormation was used to manage infrastructure and applications. This will include recommendations for best practices, and CloudFormation features I’ve found to be particularly...
Shine recently took on management of a SaaS product hosted on AWS. Whilst getting up to speed with the application functionality and architecture, I had the task of upgrading the AWS RDS instances underlying the app to a new server type. This was due to...
On a recent project we were asked by a client if it would be possible to host a React app using serverless technologies, but also ensure that traffic never left their VPC and corporate network.
In this post I'm going to talk about how we achieved this outcome, and how it proved to be more of a challenge than we first thought it would be.