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Bq_tOGxCMAELB4k 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.
25 February, 2015 /

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Rewire your brain. Do it now. That’s what Oracle wants you to do with the introduction of the Java 8 SE. Unnecessarily dramatic statements aside, the “JCP” have approved a number of new language features that bring functional programming to Java – and which Oracle are promoting so heavily, they may as well be walking around with “declarative programming is great” inked on their collective foreheads.
29 January, 2015 /

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The Kick-Off Meeting

It went something along the lines of:
  • Client: "We have a new requirement for you.."
  • Shiners: "Shoot.."
  • Client: "We'd like you to come up a solution that can insert 2 million rows per hour into a database and be able to deliver real-time analytics and some have animated charts visualising it. And, it should go without saying, that it needs to be scalable so we can ramp up to 100 million per hour."
  • Shiners: [inaudible]
  • Client: "Sorry, what was that?"
  • Shiners: [inaudible]
  • Client: "You'll have to speak up guys.."
  • Shiners: "Give us 6 weeks"
We delivered it less than 4.
25 August, 2014 /

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For me, Jaws is hands down one of the best movies ever made. It's almost 40 years old but it still looks fantastic and the acting is phenomenal. And it's able to boast one of the most memorable ad-libs ever quipped by any actor on the big screen:

"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
18 January, 2014 /

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I've been lucky enough to be in San Francisco this week to cover the JavaOne conference.  Today (Monday 23rd) was the first real day of conference proceedings and it was a very full day.  Sessions started 8.30am and ran until 8.15pm with usually half an hour to an hour break in between.  In this post I'll focus on the best sessions of today as well as some of the logistics of being an attendee at a big conference.
25 September, 2013 /

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The 18th JavaOne started this Sunday in San Francisco. Covering three hotels in downtown SF, Hilton, Parc55 and Nikkon and with keynotes in the Moscone Centre, Oracle OpenWorld is hands down the biggest conference I've ever attended.  It covers 5 days in total and over 500 sessions plus side exhibitions and events. And it certainly needs the room, not only to accommodate the number of attendees going to these sessions but the breadth of the platform itself.

24 September, 2013 /

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“In our (admittedly limited) experience, Redis is so fast that the slowest part of a cache lookup is the time spent reading and writing bytes to the network” - stackoverflow.com

Can Databases Be Exciting To Work With?

It’s very rare that a project can cause an engineer to get excited about the prospect of working with a database they've never worked with previously, especially when it’s a relational one. That mainly boils down to the fact that the majority of them are clunky monstrosities that are painfully slow and cause us to grimace at the thought of having to integrate them into our applications, not to mention having to piece together gnarly and over engineered SQL statements.

04 September, 2013 /

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Integrating SpringMVC with OpenCms

OpenCms websites tend to place a lot of responsibility for the controller and view functionality of a page on the JSP, a JEE anti-pattern known as a Monolithic/Compound JSP. We recently integrated SpringMVC into an OpenCMS website at one of our clients to gain the advantages of a Model-View-Controller framework without an extensive rewrite of the codebase.
09 April, 2013 /

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