Tag Archives: Big Data

Test Driving Google Cloud Dataflow

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Shine Technologies

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 … Continue reading →

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Shine wins Computerworld Data+ Award!

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Shine Technologies

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 … 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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Reeling in Big Data Using Google’s BigQuery

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Shine Technologies

Introduction 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 … Continue reading →

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The Joys of Redis

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Shine Technologies

“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 … Continue reading →

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