KablamoBlog
Further thinking to get the juices flowing.
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.
Jonathan Englert
LET'STALKCULTURE—DYNAMICBUSINESS
Kablamo’s co-CEO Angus Dorney was interviewed by Dynamic Business about maintaining culture when you’re under the gun as a business.
Jonathan Englert
BOARDGAMENIGHTANDTHEHUMOURFOUNDATION
Think you have what it takes to be a board game champion ? Want to support a terrific cause? Like beers and snacks?
Jonathan Englert
GODEEPLEARNING!
One of our Kablamites literally wrote the book on building and implementing neural networks using Go.
Jonathan Englert
VALUESANDJOINTLEADERSHIP
Want to explore the connection between values and joint leadership, the Australian recently published this piece by Kablamo’s Angus Dorney.
Jonathan Englert
FIVESAYINGSTHATSOUNDSMART,BUTAREACTUALLYDUMB
common workplace sayings that people may think are smart, but they are actually dumb
Jonathan Englert
HAVEYOUGOTAN“INNOVATIONKILLER”INYOURBUSINESS?
Here's five dead giveaways...
Jonathan Englert
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!
Allan Waddell
EXPLAINER:WHATAREDEEPFAKES?
Check out Allan’s thoughts in this CMO piece on Deep Fakes
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.
Jonathan Englert
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
How AI is revolutionising healthcare
Jonathan Englert
AMAZONAWSSUMMITINTEL
Great to be able to share this from the AWS Summit
Jonathan Englert
AMAZONSUMMITNEWS
Kablamo named finalist partner in ML
Jonathan Englert
KABLAMOAPPOINTSKIRSTYTRASKTOLEADERSHIPTEAM
Kablamo has appointed Kirsty Trask as its regional manager Melbourne.
Jonathan Englert
TENWAYSTOATTRACTANDKEEPTHEBESTTECHTALENT(WHENEVERYONESAYSIT’SIMPOSSIBLE)
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.
Ben’s pointers should be enough for anyone to get started with elastic.
Jonathan Englert
OURFRIENDLYAISURVEY
This survey is about helping us all to understand your AI perspective a little better (and, hey, it might even be fun).
Kablamo
MYBUSINESSTALKSTOALLAN-ENTREPRENEURREVEALS:‘WHYIHIREDACO-CEO’
Kablamo co-CEO and Founder, Allan Waddell, recently appeared in MyBusiness to talk about the experience of going from solo to co-CEO.
Angus Dorney
HOWFACIALRECOGNITIONCANUNLOCKVIDEOARCHIVEVALUE
Kablamo’s co-CEO, Angus Dorney, recently spoke to ComputerWorld about how facial recognition and AI can unlock tremendous amounts of value in video archives.
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
ALLANTALKSAIANDSLIMEMOULDSINTHEAUSTRALIAN
Allan Waddell’s take on the biological future of AI.
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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