Shine is extremely proud to announce that Pablo Caif has been invited to present at GCP Next 2016, which is Google's largest annual cloud platform event held in San Francisco. Pablo will be presenting on the work Shine have done for Telstra, which involves building solutions on GCP to...
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A few months back, Shine's Pablo Caif and Graham Polley were welcomed into the Google Developer Expert (GDE) program as a result of their recent work at Telstra. The projects they are working on consist of building bleeding edge big data solutions using tools like BigQuery and Cloud Dataflow on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You can read all about that here.
GDE acceptance comes with many benefits and privileges, one of which is a yearly trip to a private summit at a different location each year. With Google footing the bill, they bring all the GDEs (around 250 currently) from around the globe for, let's admit it, a complete Google geek-out fest for 2 days!
This year the summit was at the Googleplex in Mountain View. Needless to say, Pablo and Graham were chomping at the bit to go. However, in addition to the summit, Google invited them to fly out prior to actual summit itself. They had lined up a few other things especially for the guys. So this was no ordinary trip. Lucky buggers!
We asked both guys to give their individual feedback on the trip, and here's what they had to say about it. Read on if you want to hear about how the guys spent six days hanging out with Google in America.
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. And we are always looking for ways of improving our streaming infrastructure.
As I explained in a previous blog post, the data/rows that we stream to BigQuery are ad-impressions, which are generated by an ad-server (Google DFP). This was a great accomplishment in its own right, especially after optimising our architecture and adding Redis into the mix. Using Redis added robustness, and stability to our infrastructure. But – there is always a but – we still need to denormalise the data before analysing it.
In this blog post I'll talk about how you can use Google Cloud Pub/Sub to denormalize your data in real-time before performing analysis on it.
You may have already read our previous post here about Shine's Pablo Caif & Graham Polley being nominated to become 'Google Developer Experts' (GDE). Well, today Shine are proud to announce that both guys have been officially awarded the braggable title of GDE, and we'd like to congratulate them...
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 helped Telstra analyse massive data sets in a matter of seconds using the power of the cloud.
It’s an established trend in the modern software world that if you want to get something done, you'll probably need to put together a web service to get do it. People expect data and services to be available everywhere, in a mobile world. With the plethora of frameworks and technologies available to go about implementing a web service, it becomes a chore to try using anything beyond what's already familiar. But every now and then it’s an enjoyable experience to dive into something new and distinctly unfamiliar.
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 mouth watering at the prospect of working with it. It looked downright freaking awesome, and I just couldn't wait to get my hands on it to take it for a spin.
Shine is proud to have been awarded the Computerworld Data+ award for our work with Google BigQuery. The innovative work is a great example of using great technology to deliver business benefit. You can see the write up of the award here: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2598539/shine-technologies.html Congratulations to the Shiners...