Cloud

YOW Conference 2013
4 Shiners attended YOW Melbourne last week, which is a technology conference held yearly and brings high-profile and savvy presenters to talk on new and current trends in IT.I'll start with an overview of the venue, crowd and the sponsors that had stalls in the common area, then dive into a tech report.
11 December, 2013 /

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ImageI was lucky enough to be one of the 6,000 cloud geeks that descended on Vegas last week to attend AWS re:Invent 2012. This inaugural AWS developer conference was broken into 3 days. The first day was a bit of a warm-up day, with technical workshops and a AWS partner day. The two subsequent days had keynotes and deep-dive sessions covering all elements of the AWS ecosystem. In this post I'll cover what I saw during the three days I was there, and what had the biggest impact on me.
03 December, 2012 /

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Amazon recently announced a new feature for AWS RDS databases called Provisioned IOPS. In short, this feature is designed to reliably guarantee the amount of I/O operations per second for your RDS instance. Prior to its public release, Shine Technologies was able to work with the Amazon RDS team to give this new feature a test-run with one of our products.After some initial tweaking, the results were ultimately very rewarding. In this post I'll talk about the product we tested against, what performance gains we achieved with Provisioned IOPS, and how we got there.
02 October, 2012 /

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Yow! Brisbane 2011

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Brisbane Yow! Conference.  This was a great conference with talks to interest developers across many languages platforms and experience.This blog is a summary of the more interesting talks that I attended and my thoughts on them.
12 December, 2011 /

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Shine Technologies has recently completed a proof-of-concept migrating the hosting of two of its enterprise products into the cloud - specifically, Amazon Web Services (AWS).This post is aimed at technical managers interested in leveraging cloud technologies to provide new and powerful options to both existing and new clients of established products. We'll first give a quick overview the products, and then explain why hosting them in the cloud is beneficial for us. We'll then finish off with a couple of things we've learnt whilst getting our products going in the cloud.
18 July, 2011 /

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