Category Archives: Node.js

Filling the BigQuery paddling pool from the Kinesis Hosepipe

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Shine Technologies

Introduction This blog post details how we solved the problem of analysing large amounts of HTTP request logs for one of our clients. Spoiler: we used Amazon’s Kinesis and Lambda to stream the data into Google’s BigQuery for analysis. Read on for … Continue reading →

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Performance Comparison Between Node.js and Java EE For Reading JSON Data from CouchDB

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Shine Technologies

Node.js has impressed me several times with high performance right out of the box. In my last Node.js project it was the same: we beat the given performance targets without having to tweak the application at all. I never really … Continue reading →

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JavaOne 2013 Day Zero

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Shine Technologies

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 … Continue reading →

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Video of Marc Fasel’s Presentation at Web Directions Code 2013

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Shine Technologies

Shine Technologies’ senior consultant Marc Fasel gave a presentation on asynchronous JavaScript with Node.js at this year’s Web Directions Code conference May 2-3. The title of the presentation is Put on Your Asynchronous Hat and Node, and the video is … Continue reading →

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Web Directions Code 2013

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Shine Technologies

The second incarnation of the Web Directions Code conference was this year on 2.-3. May, and I was fortunate enough to both attend and speak. The conference held in Melbourne Town Hall was the place to geek out about all … Continue reading →

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Yow! Developer Conference Brisbane.

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Shine Technologies

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 … Continue reading →

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JavaScript from Nose to Tail

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Shine Technologies

Cliffano Subagio from Shine Technologies presented together with Carl Husselbee from Sensis “JavaScript from Nose to Tail” at the August MelbJS Meetup. The slides and the video of the presentation are now online.

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Asynchronous Code Design with Node.js

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Shine Technologies

The asynchronous event-driven I/O of Node.js is currently evaluated by many enterprises as a high-performance alternative to the traditional synchronous I/O of multi-threaded enterprise application server. The asynchronous nature means that enterprise developers have to learn new programming patterns, and … Continue reading →

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TLS/SSL tunneling with Node.js

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Shine Technologies

I was recently faced with a bit of a coding challenge whereby I needed to get LDAP authentication working via SSL/TLS using Node. Unfortunately for me Node.js is a relatively new language and a secure LDAP library is still on … Continue reading →

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Couchtato – A CouchDB Document Utility Tool Written In Node.js

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Shine Technologies

We have been using Apache CouchDB at one of our clients project, and despite how well CouchDB worked, we learnt that there was still no easy way to find certain documents without resorting to writing map reduce functions either via … Continue reading →

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