Category Archives: Opinion

Opinion

The most important thing when picking HTTP status codes

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Shine Technologies

Every couple of months I’m in a meeting where a couple of developers start arguing about which HTTP status codes to use in their RESTful API, or where they decide to not use HTTP status codes at all and instead … Continue reading →

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Will Swift be the next king of server side development?

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Shine Technologies

In June 2015, Apple announced at WWDC that they were open-sourcing the Swift language and its runtime libraries. On December 3rd that year they made good on their promise. In this post I’d like to talk about why this is significant, particularly for server-side … Continue reading →

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Style Guides and AEM: Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Shine Technologies

There is a push in the industry to code against an external style guide to maintain consistent styling, have a reusable set of components to build applications with and provide a shared vocabulary for teams to communicate. The goal is … Continue reading →

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A week in the life of a Google Developer Expert

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Shine Technologies

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 … Continue reading →

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Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Shine Technologies

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 … Continue reading →

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Adobe Innovation Session (June 2015)

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Shine Technologies

As part of the Adobe Partner program, various sessions and events are organised to keep partners updated on the latest features of the Adobe Marketing Cloud platform. Best practices are also talked about in order to deliver high quality solutions … Continue reading →

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Spring Data REST and Projections

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Shine Technologies

Introduction In recent years, Spring has become much more than just a dependancy injection container and an MVC web application framework. Nowadays, it’s the go-to for building enterprise solutions due to the fact it has a fantastic community built up around it, and it has a … Continue reading →

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Future of the Internet

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Shine Technologies

We are living in the information age and are constantly on the quest for more. More information that is. Through the use of the internet, we have access to a wider variety of information than those who lived before us, but … Continue reading →

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Confessions of a Documenter

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Shine Technologies

I’m going to confess something. I’ve been harbouring a terrible secret for the last few years. It’s something that I’ve tried to keep hidden away from my peers for a very long time so as not to be labeled as … Continue reading →

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Put On Your Streaming Shoes

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Shine Technologies

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 … Continue reading →

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