Tag Archives: Cloud

Creating a serverless ETL nirvana using Google BigQuery

Quite a while back, Google released two new features in BigQuery. One was federated sources. A federated source allows you to query external sources, like files in Google Cloud Storage (GCS), directly using SQL. They also gave us user defined functions (UDF) in that … Continue reading

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Pablo rocking the stage at Google’s annual cloud event!

Last week, Shine’s very own Pablo Caif gave a presentation at GCP Next 2016 in San Francisco, which is Google’s largest annual cloud platform event. Pablo delivered an outstanding talk on the work Shine have done for Telstra, which involves building solutions on the GCP … Continue reading

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Messages in the sky

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. … Continue reading

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Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge

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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Upcoming Shine Event: Leveraging Big Data in the Cloud using Google and AWS

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 … Continue reading

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Playing with Play Framework 2.3.x: REST, pipelines, and Scala

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. Continue reading

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Test Driving Google Cloud Dataflow

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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Put On Your Streaming Shoes

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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Shine @ AWS re: Invent 2012

I was lucky enough to be one of the 6,000 cloud geeks that descended on Vegas last week to attend AWS re:Invent 2012. This inaugural AWS developer conference was broken into 3 days. The first day was a bit of a warm-up day, with … Continue reading

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