KablamoBlog

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SmartCompany

Howbusinessescanbuildculture-firstworkplacesintheeraofremotework

There's a shift in the way we do work culture that is ultimately going to affect us society-wide, and I’m not sure we can just assume personal preferences are enough to guide us here.

Kablamo

Turninglimitlessdataintolife-savingdecisions

How Firestory is helping harness technology to prevent devastating bushfires. Learn more in our Q&A with our Geospatial Lead, Andrew McDowell.

Kablamo

Cantechnologyconsignmega-firestothepast?

The emerging field of bushfire intelligence comprises a nexus of cloud-based data analysis, AI, machine learning and other emerging technologies alongside the knowledge of local and regional fire agencies.

Kablamo

Whatasmalltechcompanymustnotlearnfrombigtechlayoffs

Discover why small- to mid-sized tech companies in Australia should resist the temptation to emulate big tech layoffs

Kablamo

AccelerateAI/MLIntegrationintoDigitalContentWorkflowswithKablamoDigitalAssetManagement

Kablamo's Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping organizations solve the challenges of managing petabytes of digital content while integrating AI/ML technologies to enhance traditional content process workflows.

Murphy Trueman

Solvingcomplexproblemswithdesignthinking

Design thinking is a problem-solving process that uses creative methods to overcome complex challenges. It allows for new perspectives and innovative solutions by embracing change and uncertainty.

Australian Financial Review

MeettheCO-CEOswhodifferonworkingfromhome

Angus and Allan caught with Tess Bennet from the AFR to chat about their approaches to working from home and in the office.

Ausbiz

Howbusinessescanbeamentalhealthally-shiftingworkplacementalhealthperception

On the back of Allan's amazing efforts as part of the Black Dog Institute CEO Skydive, he caught up with Ausbiz to discuss how businesses can be a mental health ally

Allan Waddell

WhyIdidtheCEOSkydive-andwhyallCEOsshouldtakethisplunge

On May 6, I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet as part of the Black Dog Institute’s CEO Skydive. Stepping out of the aircraft was an absolute thrill and a challenge – but far from the most daunting leap I’ve taken in my professional life.

ARN

ARNAnnouncesFinaliststhe2022WICCTAAwards

We are incredibly proud to annouce that two of our extraordinary team members have been recognised as finalists in this years ARN Women in IT Awards (WIICTA)

Clare Burrows

ProductCareManagerMelissaSwanepoelonstrivingforgreatervalueforourcustomers

As we continue to recognise women during International Women’s Week 2022, we’re celebrating the incredible talent of the women on the Kablamo team, meet Product Care Manager Melissa Swanepoel.

Clare Burrows

DevOpsEngineerElenaKosobrodovaonthepursuitofconstantlearning

For International Women’s Week, we’re celebrating the incredible talent of the women on the Kablamo team. Meet Junior DevOps Engineer Elena Kosobrodova.

IT Wire

KablamoexpandsinCanada

Digital product development and data company Kablamo launches in Canada following the demand for its financial expertise.

Kablamo

AWSGlobalAwardWrapUp

Here’s a wrap up of our favourite takeaways from the amazing coverage Kablamo received for Most Innovative AI/ML Solution at the recent AWS Global Public Sector Awards.

Kablamo

KablamowinsAWSGlobalPublicSectorPartnersAwardforMostInnovativeAIandMLsolution

Angus Dorney

Fromfloodstofires:Where'sthewarfootingapproachforbushfires?

The La Niña weather cycle responsible for the cool, wet summer we’ve just experienced is over.

Debby McGerty

THECOLLECTIVEBORG-KABLAMO

Have you ever wondered what it is like having two CEOs? Well, we are in a unique place to be able to experience this first hand... Take a dive head first into this and be assimilated

ITWire

KablamotapsMcDowellforgeo-spatialexpertise

The Kablamo team is always expanding to include exceptional talent. ITWire celebrates with us.

Kablamo

TechTalk:OwenKelly

Tech lead, Owen Kelly, and co-CEO Allan Waddell, discuss the finer points of digital transformation, solving problems, and a Moog synth.

Ian Mckay

AWSre:InventRecap#1

As selected by our AWS Community Hero, Ian Mckay, here are the top 5 highlights from the AWS re:Invent opening keynote by Andy Jassy.

Angus Dorney

Techcanfightfires,butweneedtochangethesystemtoo

The horrors of Australia’s bushfires committed many of us in technology to apply our skills to helping reduce future risk to humans, flora and fauna, and property. But without serious buy-in from the fireys and the federal government it won’t work.

Kablamo Recording

TechTalk:TomoHart

Product designer, Tomo Hart, and co-CEO Allan Waddell, chat the calibre of the Kablamites and Monday morning inspiration.

Angus Dorney and Aaron Markie

TheRoyalCommission’sInterimReport:CentralisetheData

By pointing out that “real-time decision making needs relevant real-time data”, this report specifies the need for central data management. Current data inconsistencies limit the ability of fire-fighting teams to make informed decisions.

Angus Dorney

NSWBushfireInquiryReport:HowTechnologyistheAnswer

The newly released, 466-page report on the NSW bushfires identifies that technology is one of the greatest areas of improvement that the New South Wales fire fighting agencies and their partners can undertake.

Angus Dorney

Thespeedproblemfacinggovernmenttechinnovation

“You have to move as slowly as us.” This was the advice from a government official who was visibly worried by the rapid pace we were suggesting for a tech project. This wasn’t the first time we saw government afraid of moving fast.

Information Age

Thezero-hourcontract:it’sanewwayofworking

It’s lean times for employment certainty – and while many will find solace in the government’s JobKeeper program, others will see the pandemic as an inflection point to take their skills back to market – or change careers altogether.

Angus Dorney

ToBuildorBuyInnovation?

With fintechs and neobanks posing an existential threat to the Big Four banks, the incumbents are scrambling to launch their own digital ventures to try to fend off the disruptors — but are they doing it wrong?

Aaron Markie

TheUltimateWFHCommitment

We needed a WFH Commitment to maintain trust and collaboration, ensuring our projects continued to be successful in these unsettled times.

Angus Dorney

WillyourcompanyvaluessurviveCOVID-19?

Last week in Australia, we witnessed a spectacular and public implosion of company values from one of the most popular banks.

Kablamo

ACOVIDANTHEMRISES

Members of the Kablamo team have many super powers outside of the digital world. One Kablamite has a secret identity as an artist and song writer

Angus Dorney

SURRENDERINGOURRIGHTS

Data is addictive, but should we surrender our Right to Privacy in order to control COVID-19?

Tim Elson

DEPLOYINGSOLUTIONSDRIVENBYMACHINELEARNING

There’s an ‘us and them’ mentality between software engineering and data science.

Debby McGerty

ALIVINGGUIDETOLIVINGWELL

Loss is a powerful time in everybody’s life. It is something we all experience and is a period of profound soul-searching. I’ve spent many years on this earth and have navigated the loss of many of my most-loved people. Recently, it was my husband.

Kablamo

LET'STALKCULTUREDYNAMICBUSINESS

Kablamo’s co-CEO Angus Dorney was interviewed by Dynamic Business about maintaining culture when you’re under the gun as a business. Here are his thoughts

Kablamo

BOARDGAMENIGHTANDTHEHUMOURFOUNDATION

Think you have what it takes to be a board game champion? Want to support a terrific cause? Like beers and snacks?

Kate Stevenson

GODEEPLEARNING!

One of our Kablamites literally wrote the book on building and implementing neural networks using Go.

Angus Dorney

VALUESANDJOINTLEADERSHIP

In business leadership, the conventional wisdom is that one person should be the driving force. Any alternative leadership structure typically is met with eyebrows raised high. As a co-chief executive, it’s the reaction I was expecting...

Angus Dorney

FIVESAYINGSTHATSOUNDSMART,BUTAREACTUALLYDUMB

common workplace sayings that people may think are smart, but they are actually dumb

Kablamo

HAVEYOUGOTAN“INNOVATIONKILLER”INYOURBUSINESS?

Here's five dead giveaways...

Kablamo

KABLAMONAMEDARNAWARDSFINALIST

We are finalists in ARN's Innovation Awards for the Smart Technology Category

Daniel Serrano

ONKABLAMO,MELBOURNEANDLIFEDECISIONS.

Here’s the latest on Kablamo’s culture, courtesy Daniel Serrano, who has just joined the team down in Melbourne!

CMO

EXPLAINER:WHATAREDEEPFAKES?

While seeing long-dead artists eating modern food is fun, this hides a darker problem about authenticity on the web. With heightened concerns about the fake news label being used to undermine information, deepfakes are set to accelerate a crisis in trust.

Angus Dorney

RISEOFTHEMAMMAL:THEEXISTENTIALTHREATFACINGTRADITIONALCONSULTANCIES

Read Angus’s thoughts on traditional consultancies below

Allan Waddell

THEETHICSCENTRE:INJECTINGARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCEWITHHUMANEMPATHY

The great promise of artificial intelligence is efficiency.

Angus Dorney

THE"ODDCOUPLE"-MYFIRSTYEARASCO-CEO

One year ago, I made the biggest move of my career and joined Kablamo as co-CEO.

Angus Dorney

NEOBANKSANDTHECOMINGDISRUPTION?

When the internet challenged the global media industry, companies were confronted with a stark choice — innovate or perish.

Angus Dorney

OVERCOMINGCUSTOMERSTOCKHOLMSYNDROME

Sometimes being a high performer in an industry with a bad reputation can be a burden due to what I call Customer Stockholm Syndrome.

Allan Waddell

ALGORITHMSANDARRHYTHMIA

Artificial intelligence (AI), neural networks and machine learning can be ethereal concepts to the average punter, but when applied to the health sector their benefits come into sharp focus.

Kablamo

AMAZONAWSSUMMITINTEL

Great to be able to share this from the AWS Summit

Kablamo

AMAZONSUMMITNEWS

Kablamo named finalist partner in ML

Kate Stevenson

TENWAYSTOATTRACTANDKEEPTHEBESTTECHTALENT...

...when everyone says it's impossible. Kablamo is a small but fast-growing cloud application development business and, so far, we seem to have a good formula for attracting and retaining really great technical talent

Ben Boyter

ALLYOUNEEDTOKNOWABOUTELASTICSEARCHBUTWEREAFRAIDTOASK.

These pointers should be enough for anyone to get started with elastic, produce a modern search interface and know how to do most things. Anything beyond this should be fairly easy to pick up from the elastic documentation once you have this grounding.

Kablamo

OURFRIENDLYAISURVEY

This survey is about helping us all to understand your AI perspective a little better (and, hey, it might even be fun).

Kablamo

WHYIHIREDACO-CEO

It’s said to be lonely at the top when running a business, but as this business owner explains, appointing a co-CEO can be a beneficial way of positioning the company, and oneself, for growth.

ComputerWorld

HOWFACIALRECOGNITIONCANUNLOCKVIDEOARCHIVEVALUE

In recent years, thanks in part to more readily available capabilities offered by major cloud providers, facial recognition technology is being applied to identify people not just in photos from our college days, but from as far back as the 1860s.

Kablamo

IMPORTINGCUSTOMFINDINGSINTOAWSSECURITYHUB

Though Security Hub is in preview, you can access it in your console now and it comes with out-of-the-box support for AWS services such as GuardDuty, Macie and Inspector as well as from 3rd party providers.

Allan Waddell

WHYTWOCEOSCANBEBETTERTHANONE

“Co-CEO… how’s that going for you?” This is a question I’ve been asked many times in my first six months sharing the helm of fast-growing cloud software engineering company, Kablamo.

Allan Waddell

AIANDSLIMEMOULDSINTHEAUSTRALIAN

Artificial intelligence is taking off. Virtual assistants, computer chips, cameras and software packages are increasingly taking advantage of machine learning to create pseudo-intelligent, versatile problem-solvers.

Kablamo

INERPNOONECANHEARYOUSCREAM

Welcome to the world of ERP hostageware.

Kablamo

ISCLOUDALLORNOTHING?

When it comes to cloud adoption, there’s largely two schools of thought on the best approach.

Kablamo

BRINGYOURHUMANS...

Transformations are disruptive. I don’t mean this in the lazy, cliched, and sigh-inducing “X company is the Uber of Y industry, poised to disrupt the industry”, I mean it is a process of change that requires some adaptation.

Kablamo

WHATMATTERSTOYOUWHENYOUTHINKABOUTHIRINGANITCONSULTANT?

Hiring an outside IT consultant is obviously a common business decision, but the experience can be complicated.

Kablamo

THE(HUMAN)ETHICSOFARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE

Intelligence without ethics is dangerous. Human intelligence is tempered with human empathy.

Kablamo

ERPisdead...LongliveERP

Dinosaurs. Edsels. Consumer-grade Betamax players. All long gone. Is ERP about to wind up on the dust heap of history?

Kablamo

ENGINEERINGSTABILITYINTOKOMBUSTION'SPLUGINSYSTEM

Kombustion is a CloudFormation tool that uses plugins to pre-process templates. It enables DevOps to re-use CloudFormation best practices, and standardise deployment patterns.

Kablamo

ABUSINESS-PRACTICALWAYTOTHINKABOUTAI

Quantify It. Undersand the downside.

Ian Mckay

EFFECTIVEAWSIAM

Ian Mckay, DevOps Engineer for Kablamo, weighs in on the effective use of AWS IAM

Kablamo

AI-THEOUTERREACHES

We'll be the first to admit that AI is scary.

Kablamo

SECURITYATTHECENTRE

Security is a big challenge in enterprise. Here's how we tackle it.

Kablamo

INTRODUCINGKOMBUSTION:OUROPENSOURCEAWSDEVELOPERTOOL

THE TEAM IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF KOMBUSTION.

Victoria Adams

UX/UI,THEPERFECTCOUPLE

This week, Kablamo's UX/UI lead, Victoria Adams weighs in on the UX/UI thing...

Kablamo

BUZZWORD:DEVOPS

DevOps is overused. What does it really mean, and what's a better word for it?

Kablamo

BUZZWORD:AI

In this week's buzzword chat the team tackles how machine learning & AI aren't going to solve your IT woes -- robust discussion ensues.

Kablamo

YOUTALKIN'TOME?CHATBOTSMIGHTNOTBEHEREYET.

Science fiction has had mixed results predicting the future.

Kablamo

BUZZWORD:BLOCKCHAIN

Listen to the team tackle Blockchain as a buzzword, current industry uses, what blockchain might look like in the future and the effectiveness of distributed systems (or read the transcript)

Allan Waddell

WHYTHETECHNOLOGYBEHINDBITCOINMAYSOMEDAYSAVEYOURLIFE

It’s time to chin up and stop grousing that we’re all late to the crypto-currency party. Most of us may have missed our moment to make millions off of Bitcoin, but the technology behind it could eventually save our lives.

Angus Dorney

WHYI’MJOININGKABLAMO

Today, I join a special group of people who are creating a truly amazing company.

Allan Waddell

BITCOIN'SNOTAFAD,IT'SAWAITINGGAME

For all of its naysayers, the world’s first functioning virtual currency, the Bitcoin, has done amazingly well. But its accomplishments are completely unrelated to its price.

Kablamo

IAM-IDENTITYANDACCESSINTHEAWSCLOUD

For users (and sometimes administrators), security is hard. It can slow you down with authentication and provide roadblocks when you are denied access to the resources you need.

Allan Waddell

AIANDTHEINTELLIGENCEEXPLOSION-DIRECTOR'SCUT

A few weeks ago Allan published some thoughts on AI in The Australian. What was published came from a longer exploratory piece which makes sense to publish here in full. Here it is...

Kablamo

CLOUDFORMATIONSTATICANALYSIS

We want to take a deeper dive into CloudFormation stacks. CloudFormation stacks are a great tool for developers to provision AWS resource in a structured, repeatable way.

Allan Waddell

TOOMUCHSTUPIDITYFORRULEBYAI

Elon Musk can’t be wrong about artificial intelligence, can he? Well, actually, yes he is wrong.

Allan Waddell

ISYOURCOMPUTERARACIST?WEKNOWAI’S‘HOW’BUTWENEED‘WHY’

Kablamo's Allan Waddell recently explored the bleeding edge of Artificial Intelligence for The Australian.

Lucy Wilkinson

WOMENINTECH?AREYOUKIDDING?

The experience of attending a global tech event as a minority

Tom Giordmaina

AUTOMATEDTESTING:AREYOUMISSINGOUTONTHEBIGBENEFITS?

In my experience as a QA Manager, every organisation I’ve worked for has had a keen interest in automated testing. It’s easy to see why everyone falls in love with its perceived benefits - faster testing, with fewer people, at lower cost… the dream!

Allan Waddell

WHATGROWTHHACKHELPSSCALEYOURBUSINESS?

Our growth hack is built entirely around people. In order to scale a business quickly, we believe you have to create a foundation that is fully human.

Lucy Wilkinson

WHATCANTHEBUSINESSCOMMUNITYDOTOFAST-TRACKGENDEREQUALITY?

Gender parity is crucial for any well-rounded business… but an imbalance exists across almost every business sector

Ben Boyter

READINGBETWEENTHELINESATAWSRE:INVENT2017

Ben Boyter shares his thoughts around Re:Invent regarding Blockchain, IoT and Aurora

Kablamo

AWSRE:INVENT-LASVEGAS

Next week, Kablamo will be attending the AWS Re:Invent conference for the first time, in Las Vegas. It's a momentous occasion for us. We are now officially an AWS Advanced Tier Partner - a status shared by only a handful of providers in Sydney, Australia.

Allan Waddell

THEAGILEDEPENDENCYWALL

I’m sharing some of the techniques we use, that drive consistent Agile delivery. These articles are not intended to be exhaustive, rather an introduction to the theories and concepts we apply day to day.

Allan Waddell

COMMONHURDLESOFDIGITALTRANSFORMATIONINENTERPRISE...ANDVALUABLELESSONSLEARNED

Over 9 months, leading the Digital Team within a major enterprise business, we learned many lessons. Here is an overview of three of the key hurdles we faced.

Bryce Hanscomb

THECHANGINGROLEOFCONSULTANTSINANAGILEWORKFORCE

With the increasing adoption of Agile practices in enterprise, consultants must adapt to being increasingly involved with their client’s business needs.

Craig Stanford

WWDC2017-REVIEW

WWDC 2017 - REVIEW

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