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19 Oct Messages in the sky
One of the projects that I’m currently working on is developing a solution whereby millions of rows per hour are streamed real-time into Google BigQuery. This data is then available for immediate analysis by the business. The business likes this. It’s an extremely interesting, yet challenging project....14 Oct Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge
My work commute My commute to and from work on the train is on average 17 minutes. It’s the usual uneventful affair, where the majority of people pass the time by surfing their mobile devices, catching a few Zs, or by reading a book. I’m one of those...07 Sep Shiners nominated for ‘Google Developer Expert’ program!
Shine are delighted to announce that our very own Pablo Caif, and Graham Polley have both been nominated to become part of the Google Developer Expert program! Becoming an expert, means undergoing a stringent evaluation and interview process, as well as being nominated by a Google...18 Jun Upcoming Shine Event: Leveraging Big Data in the Cloud using Google and AWS
Shine would like to invite you to a special event we are hosting in Melbourne on July 8. In a one-off presentation to be held at ACMI in Federation Square, Shiners Graham Polley and Shane Neubauer will share with you the story of how they...25 Feb Test Driving Google Cloud Dataflow
Back in June 2014, at the annual Google IO in San Francisco, Google unveiled their newest, and much hyped cloud product, Cloud Dataflow. The demo they did that day, using a live twitter feed to analyze supporter sentiment during the 2014 world cup, got my...02 Feb Shine featured on Google Cloud Platform Blog
Shine’s Graham Polley has been featured on the Google Cloud Platform Blog talking about his experiences with Google BigQuery. In the post Graham discusses how he was able to stream massive amounts of data into BigQuery for a customer, and then query it with a SQL-like...19 Dec License to Queue
A few months ago I joined an exciting project with fellow Shiner Graham Polley, who you might know from such hits as Put on your streaming shoes. This is a follow-up article, discussing the elegant way in which we solved a hideous asynchronous limitation in PHP....