We’re just getting our heads around the impact, power and usefulness of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, perhaps getting our first couple of real use cases off the…
At Mantel Group, we’re in a unique position to develop and implement cutting-edge Generative AI solutions that address your complex challenges. At the same time, beyond simply building solutions, we're…
AI Factories can help lift the volume, success, value, and speed of AI innovation within organisations. But there's a speed hump on the horizon - the advent of agentic AI.…
Written by Emma Bromet Held over four days from June 10 to 13 in San Francisco, the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2024 brought together more than 16,000 data professionals,…
Apple’s announcement that ChatGPT will, it appears, be free on certain iPhones, iPads and Macs has sparked concerns in some quarters about the threat of an “unacceptable security violation”. The…
Written by Danny Wong (Senior Solutions Architect Databricks), Petr Andreev (Senior Databricks Engineer, Mantel Group), Nicholas Anile (Senior Data Scientist, Mantel Group) Introduction At a time when groundbreaking technological advances…
Written by Isaac Taylor - This article was first published in M2 MagazinePrepping for a boardroom lunch, veteran event coordinator Anna asked ChatGPT to pair wines with the meals and…
There is a revolution in organisational design development brewing in the data industry. Borrowing from the same mantra of ‘decentralisation’ that has sparked innovation in blockchain technology and Web3, “Data…
What the TEQSA review of AI action plans means for universities, institutes and colleges The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency wants to see action plans to address risks stemming…
Banks have a longer breath to sit out the generative artificial intelligence innovation phase using their strong balance sheets, which gives them a strategic advantage. Mantel Group’s ongoing market research…
Written by Alex Essebier, Vivian Mai and Sahil Bahl Most organisations face everyday problems that can be solved faster and more accurately by machines. A prime example is the area…
Written by Dhivya Kanagasingam In today's digital age, data and artificial intelligence (AI) have become the driving forces behind innovation and success for organisations across various industries. However AI, with…
Pretraining The pretraining bit was added recently with the release of spaCy 2.1 and allows the use of Language Modelling with Approximate Outputs (LMAO), or training of a transformer for…
If you’re looking to conduct some form of forecasting in Qlik, look no further! While Qlik Sense doesn’t quite have an out-of-the-box forecasting function, in most cases a quick and…
How can we dig insights from a flood of information? With every company now leveraging platforms and tools to run their workflows, data shortage is not an issue and it…
“Discovery” is a term used to describe an introductory phase of a project focused on aligning expectations, exploring assumptions and agreeing on goals and scope. Those in the know often…
There is more data available than ever before but companies are struggling to use it. Data storytelling can help. Every day 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created globally. It’s…
Once coined the sexiest job of the 21st century, data scientist has become one of the most popular job fields in recent years, as organisations of all industries have come…
First let’s start with the question: Why do you need to consider a strategy for your data? An abundance of data and computing sources has unlocked tremendous potential. The idea…
The emergence of Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer roles From 2013 to 2019, data science postings on Indeed’s website have skyrocketed 256%, demonstrating a growing demand for data science-related…
In any business, there will be at least one word or metric that has a different meaning depending on which team you’re talking to. As an analyst, it’s your job…
Introduction If you use or are interested in an agile approach to delivery, “epic” is a term you want to understand. Epics are a way of organising large items of…
What is big data? Big data refers to large, complex data sets often contrived from multiple and new sources. The reason that “big data” has received its own term (after…
What is “Basic Analytics”? Basic analytics, most commonly just referred to as analytics, focuses on understanding historical data. This understanding is achieved by extracting valuable insights from aggregated, clean datasets.…
A data platform is an integrated technological infrastructure that empowers organisations to collect, store, process, manage, analyse, and extract valuable insights from massive volumes of structured and unstructured data. All…
While some people are very familiar with Databricks, others might not know as much. We thought it would be a good idea to break down what Databricks is, explore what…
Introduction In our previous article, we have seen how to get onboarded with Databricks and run your first hello world application using Spark. The first step involved creating a community…
Let's get started In this post, we're going to get you started on Databricks, but first let's take a quick look at the history of big data space. Spark has…
Databricks is one of the major players in the data space, but some people may still treat it like an optimised hosted service of Apache Spark. It's true that Spark…
Introduction In part one of this series, we discussed how Delta Lake has become the standard data format for a lakehouse architecture, and how to create and write data to…
Written by Brett Thebault At Mantel Group, we've seen Power BI become the go-to business intelligence (BI) platform for many organisations. This isn't surprising. Power BI capitalises on the familiarity…
Introduction The lakehouse architecture has gained lots of traction in the last few years. The lakehouse simply brings the best of both data warehouses and data lakes. One of the…
Written by David Liebert and Michael Diender Background I recently provided technical expertise in a team responsible for deploying, configuring and securing Vertex AI User Managed Notebooks (UMNs) in an…
Dimensional modelling, also known as Kimball’s star schema, has long been an industry standard for building a Data Warehouse. Under this approach, we load the data into a staging layer,…
Let’s clear up one thing: we’re not building the Terminator. AI isn’t a magic spark that will spontaneously occur once you’ve collected enough data. And it’s not something that only…
Introduction In late 2023, the good folks at the National AI Centre (NAIC) conducted a survey of business leaders and AI specialists to help provide an assessment of Australia’s growing…
Written By: Ashish Tripathi, Niharika Kargudri & Jenny Li The recent surge in the popularity of AI Coding Assistant Tools is quite noticeable. This is especially true among developers due…
Written By: Christina Evans, Kim Quiñones and Thomas Maas What is a data strategy? A data strategy sets a clear objective of what companies ultimately want to achieve with…
By Katinka Gereb, Arvin Lim, Jim Hortle, James Dunwoody, Alex Essebier and Agnes Abramczyk Introduction Artificial intelligence has evolved significantly in the past year since the introduction of ChatGPT. In…
By Stefan Fernandes “In a world where machines are becoming artists, composers, and storytellers, generative AI holds the key to unlocking unparalleled creativity. But as we dive deeper into this…
Brendan Willkinolls - Head of Machine Learning at Mantel Group The power of Generative AI is real. I know, you’re tired of hearing about it. But the fact is, the…
In the ever-evolving landscape of technology and business, the importance of data management has reached unprecedented heights. The accelerating value and capabilities that can be extracted from good data are…
Written by Alex Essebier, Kathryn Collier, Stefan Fernandes, Agnes Abramczyk and Katinka Gereb Data Science Value Data science has become a buzzword in recent years, and with good reason. The…
A Front-Row Seat to AI's Evolution Last month, I had the unique opportunity to attend the Web Directions AI 2023 conference. Stepping into the venue, I was immediately enveloped by an electric…
Authored by Simon Poulton, Partner - Cloud at Mantel The painfully obvious bit: My key takeaway from Google Next is crystal clear: we're witnessing an AI explosion driven by a…
Written by: Bojan Zivic, Senior Consultant Traditionally, it was the task of engineers to build the infrastructure to a determined specification, whilst developers would deploy applications to said servers using…
This blog kicks off a series of articles focussing on the Cloud Managed DevOps Service at CMD Solutions. The series will focus on the “Customer Journey” and will include foundational…
Introduction What is DevOps? It's a question that I remember asking myself before getting into the specific IT field and truly understanding what the answer was. I’m reminded of a…
Apple’s announcement that ChatGPT will, it appears, be free on certain iPhones, iPads and Macs has sparked concerns in some quarters about the threat of an “unacceptable security violation”. The…
As the financial industry grapples with the complexities of combating money laundering and financial crimes, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers unprecedented opportunities for innovation and efficiency when it…
Written by Harish Suresh Who says GenAI can’t be fun for everyone? As we gathered at AWS Summit Sydney 2024, it was clear that we were part of a pivotal…
Published October 10, 2023 Written by Praveen Kumar Patidar Introduction Greetings! This is the second part of our GitHub Actions Runner on the EKS series. As mentioned in Part 1, we…
Published October 10, 2023 Written by Praveen Kumar Patidar Introduction GitHub Actions serves as a robust mechanism for automating repository workflows in an organised, efficient, and transparent manner. It empowers…
Written by Simon Poulton In April, while at Google Cloud Next, I found myself seated through yet another presentation about AI (this being number 30-something), and I couldn’t help but…
10 April, 2024 — Mantel Group has been awarded the AWS Consulting Partner of the Year for ANZ for a third time, while flagging a surge in cloud uptake by…
Melbourne, 8 April 2024 — Mantel Group has been named Google Cloud Services Partner of the Year for APAC, and Google Cloud Sales Partner of the Year for ANZ in…
Cloud Adoption: Cutover to AWS and automation of an on-premise Windows workload – Part 2 Author Mark Matthews, Principal Consultant at CMD Solutions November 14, 2022 Overview In Part 1 of the…
Written by Cass Zara In the dynamic realm of Managed Services and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), the need for a centralised hub to manage customer information and streamline operations became…
Introduction Using multi-account strategy is the best practice in AWS, which has been adopted by many organisations. In my observation, a lot of cloud engineers still use Incognito mode to…
For many years, placement of cloud infrastructure on the AWS cloud was limited to Regions and the associated Availability Zones. This has changed in recent years with the announcement of…
Setting up a local Kubernetes environment locally can sometimes be a struggle, especially when trying to access workloads to test your application’s functionality. In this article I will show you…
Summary This post will detail how to create a secure IAP (Identity Aware Proxy) tunnel to a VM (Virtual Machine) inside a VPC without requiring a public IP address or…
Overview Cloud Run, a serverless compute platform managed by Google, has become a popular way to run containerised apps. Recently, I worked on a project where I had to send…
Overview Recently, Google announced the release of BigQuery ML, an analytics service for building machine learning models using data stored in BigQuery. BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse designed for…
The Challenge We need to create an AWS Organization with multiple Organizational Units (OUs) and accounts. But that’s not all! It will need to support different types of workloads, be…
In a world where everyone talks about serverless and containers, it’s easy to lose sight of improvements to the ‘old’ ways. EC2 instances are still an essential part of many…
Overview We understand every customer and organisation is unique in its own way. The decision an organisation takes to start their cloud adoption and modernisation journey of their environment to…
Introduction The idea is simple: spin up a Squid Proxy, point your browser to it and use it to give you a fixed, knowable IP address that can be added…
Introduction It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that containers brought a massive change to the industry, where scaling applications moved from scaling servers, to scaling individual container replicas within…
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store or a key-value store used as a database, cache, and message broker. It offers a rich set of features that make it…
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is an enterprise Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution which enables businesses to provision Windows virtual machines, complete with support for Office 365 and other business…
Dataflow Financial Services Anomaly Detection For code snippets and paths to files in this blog post, check out our github repository. The Relative Strength Index, or RSI, is a popular…
Written by Praveen Kumar Patidar Background The mobile and application development space has seen rapid growth in the last decade. Primarily on iOS and Android platforms – for example, Apple…
Introduction When it comes to managing various environments utilising an Infrastructure As Code (or IAC) language such as Terraform, there can be surrounding complexities around interoperability. Let’s take the example…
Once in a while AWS releases a feature that people have been demanding for a long time, and they did so again when they added the ability to close accounts from…
Overview This post aims to provide a walk-through of how to deploy a Databricks cluster on Azure with its supporting infrastructure using Terraform. At the end of this post, you…
Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are not new concepts, you may have heard these buzz words thrown around and mentioned on various products or services. These concepts can…
Running a CI/CD platform using your own runners can be daunting. Not from an implementation perspective, but more so from a scaling perspective. You may be asking, “How will our…
Here’s a No-Ops take on applying modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to developing an auto-healing capability for Dataflow pipelines in production on The Google Cloud Platform. In this article,…
This post is part of a series about Cloud Managed DevOps Service at CMD Solutions. This time however, we lift up the curtain a bit and show you how some…
When undergoing Application Transformation, choosing a container orchestration solution is something almost every organisation using AWS will have to go through at some point. Having implemented a few Elastic Container…
Company Overview Secure, scalable defence-in-depth and compliant AWS foundation Scalable VDI solution to support graphics intensive applications Access to high performance computing without location and physical hardware restraints Papuan Oil…
Of all of the seven Rs of cloud migration, “lift and shift”, or “rehost”, is perhaps the easiest to do, yet in many people’s opinion provides the least benefit. As…
I’ve always enjoyed seeing tools that make tasks easier. Tools that bring more non-technical users close to specific areas like Machine Learning and Data Engineering, abstracting technical details and allowing…
Do you and your colleagues have trouble keeping your IAM policies up to date? It is possible to write powerful policies that will grow with your changing requirements. We just need a little…
How embracing the cloud turns threats into opportunities Expectations around customer service have changed dramatically in recent years. Driven by round-the-clock access to services, apps, and tools across work and…
Written By: Illia Kavaliou (Principal Consultant) Mantel Group One of the most debated topics in the AWS cloud community is how to choose the right compute service for applications…
Last month, Microsoft held their annual Ignite conference, where a range of new features were announced. In this blog post, We’re going to share just some of the new releases…
By Colin Andrews re:Invent 2023 had a lot to live up to if it wanted to be compared with the previous year’s slue of AWS Control Tower announcements. While it…
by Cian O'sullivan The trend to develop and deploy cloud native applications; that is applications and software developed to operate in cloud environments; is generally well established and well understood.…
Highlights A large resource company migrated a range of applications to AWS with the help of Mantel Group. The migration led to improved agility, project delivery, and improved data integration…
Written by Sinnappu Jeyakumaran Our team recently did a tech assessment on AWS MSK Serverless, which automatically scales compute and storage resources so you can stream and store Apache Kafka…
Written by Stuart Blackie | Senior UX Designer, Mantel Good design principles are deceptively difficult to get right. There’s a delicate balance between crafting a principle that looks good on…
Written by Maurizio Lamanna | Experience Designer, MantelThere’s something that’s both fascinating and puzzling about The Vision Pro. From the moment you put it on, you're immersed in a world…
Apple’s announcement that ChatGPT will, it appears, be free on certain iPhones, iPads and Macs has sparked concerns in some quarters about the threat of an “unacceptable security violation”. The…
Author: Mitchell Davis Published: April 4, 2023 Introduction to Mobile Test Automation It would be a huge understatement to say that mobile devices are popular. As of the end of…
Written by Neil Khatri In the fast moving world of software development, mastering continuous integration (CI) has become a hugely important part of a developers day to day. CI arms…
What prompted me to start looking in to React Native? As a web application developer, my first attempt of mobile application development was about a year ago, when I decided…
Written by Brett Henderson Introduction One of the great benefits of working in a software consultancy is the diversity of problems we are exposed to. The creativity applied by our…
Skills you’ll need, and finding your first job Welcome back to our three-part series about beginning your career in UX/UI Design in 2024. Previously, we touched on different learning journeys,…
Starting your learning journey in UX/UI Design Welcome back to our three-part series about beginning your career in UX/UI Design in 2024. Now that you’ve potentially decided that a career…
Foreword: It’s 9pm on a Sunday as I sit here, struggling to think of a convincing way to start this foreword. Nothing’s coming to the surface - instead, everything’s just…
Written by Bhumil Soni Helly: "Hey, machine learning is changing everything!" Reeaen: "Really? So my coffee machine will finally understand 'extra foam'?" Helly: "Uh, not exactly, but your phone might!"…
We are in the midst of a customer-first revolution. When accessing services, people want to run their life with their phones. When purchasing products, they can (and do) leave reviews…
When thinking about building great products to hit critical mass, the product adoption curve is a popular conceptual tool. However, just because we read left to right, doesn’t mean we…
Today, James Warren presents a tutorial on building Live Activities for iOS 16. Live Activities are a way to display rich and persistent information outside of an app, on the…
During Android development we often have to manage many different resources. At compilation time these resources are all gathered up and merged together into a single package. As per the…
Our world is always changing. What worked in the past might not work now, or in future situations. Over time our needs will change, and we will need to adapt…
The most common pitfall with design agencies is the business focus on sales operations over the design process. Before exploring the various drawbacks from this pitfall, it’s worth understanding the…
With the recent announcement of iOS 16’s new Medication features, a world of possibility is opening up that could enable simpler and more streamlined experiences in an area that has…
First up, what is Design Thinking? Unfortunately, there are multiple ways to define design thinking, which can cause a bit of a headache! For many designers it is a creative…
"Human centred design is defined as a creative problem-solving approach that focuses on generating solutions that are based on meeting the needs of the people we’re designing for" - (IDEO).…
What is human-centred design? Human-centred design starts with the people involved, their goals, their needs and what makes them happy, and not so happy. Human-centred design is an approach to…
“Design and Chemical Engineering”, when you say those two things together it sounds like you are comparing the sun and the moon, chicken soup and raspberry slushies, Pepsi and Coke…
I was recently invited to sit on a panel to talk about Resilient Leadership hosted by Google. It was a great panel with Aireen Omar (Air Asia) and Ruma Balasubramanian…
Being new to the human centred design industry, I started working on a few voluntary projects, did some freelance work and then finally landed a full time role in a…
Melbourne AU, 2 June 2021 Mobile app developer Itty Bitty Apps, the brains behind the leading app debugging tool Reveal, today released v29 of the professional iOS developer’s best friend.…
As developers, most of us are sensitive to aspects of our day-to-day that could be improved. Most of the time, there turns out to be an easy way to satisfy…
In this post, I’m going to describe some of the pitfalls of Jetpack Navigation in Compose, and how to avoid them. Understanding these problems and finding solutions has been quite…
The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users. - Metcalfe's Law Metcalfe’s law of network effects is what drives the exponetial growth…
After having completed most of a computer science degree I did what any reasonable person would do. I dropped out and tried to figure out how to be an iOS…
The market for buy now, pay later (BNPL) is booming. The digital shift of 2020 combined with a surge in consumer interest in better understanding and controlling spending, has pushed…
Smartphones and tablets are an integral part of our everyday lives. They help us to connect, to capture and relive precious moments with our loved ones, and to carry out…
Today, I will show how we do continuous delivery with the new ANZ Plus app, and how we go from developers opening a pull request to having the app out…
Apple has a knack for keeping us on our toes and changing the face of consumer technology. We've seen it time and time again, from the iPod to the Apple…
Introduction GitHub Universe 2023 marked a thrilling culmination of groundbreaking innovations that will reshape the coding landscape, elevating developers' capabilities to new heights. Amidst an array of exciting updates, one…
Author Gary ChangCreating Android UI instrumented tests has traditionally been more involved than creating unit tests principally because of all the set up required to provide enough of a stubbed…
Written by Ashish Tripathi Mantel Group prides itself on being a learning organisation, striving to promote technology vitality and prepare our clients so they can evolve and be successful. Each…
Written by Mirjam Uher Background GraphQL is a powerful query language for APIs that was released in 2015. It has since gained a lot of attention for its schema-driven approach…
At Mantel Group, we bring value to clients by building cost effective, efficient and innovative solutions that keep them ahead in the market. To do that in the web tech…
Mantel Group prides itself on being a learning organisation, striving to promote technology vitality and prepare our clients so they can evolve and be successful. Each year we run a…
Intro: Microservices, orchestration, an assessment Microservices have become a popular architectural paradigm when building large complex systems. The appeal of building microservices comes from the idea that dividing functionality into…
Written by Sangeeta Vishwanath What is our Technology Strategy? Which Technology areas are we investing in? These are questions we explore regularly within the Mantel Group team, and the Mantel…
Written by Brett Henderson The previous blog Entitlements In Context provided some context around how IAM (Identity and Access Management) fits into typical DigIO solutions. It made some mention of the OAuth…
The Need For Cross-Browser Testing Tools Imagine navigating the digital world without the worry of web and mobile application compatibility issues. Sounds blissful, right? Thanks to cloud-based, cross-browser testing tools…
Overview Cross Platform vs Native development is not always a straightforward consideration. I’ve been involved in my fair share of heated debates over what is best. As a passionate iOS…
Mantel Group prides itself on being a learning organisation, striving to promote technology vitality and prepare our clients so they can evolve and be successful. Each year we run a…
Written by Song Xue There’s an increasing demand for Kafka across the Mantel Group brands in client projects. Java, Kotlin, and Scala are the default languages for writing applications that interact…
In the previous blog, A Tour of IAM Standards, I walked through a history of standards relating to IAM (Identity and Access Management). OAuth 2.0 provides a great building block…
Author Jason Feng, DigIOIf you haven’t read Part I, which includes a brief introduction to GraalVM and Spring Native, please have a read here Introducing Quarkus Quarkus, from Red Hat,…
Written by Brett Henderson Introduction I often quip that “All non-trivial projects begin as an identity project”. I used to say it in jest but it now feels more like…
This is an excerpt from our continuous assurance whitepaper. Every business is different. While there is certainly commonality in some of the platforms, technologies and applications in use, and re-usable components arise…
In cyber security, the "Small Target Strategy" is gaining traction as a proactive approach to defence. This strategy focuses on making an organisation a less appealing target for hackers by…
Nick Ellsmore, October 2024 As the new APRA CPS 230 standard takes effect, executives must act now to ensure their organisations are equipped to manage operational risks—especially in areas like…
Nick Ellsmore, 22 July, 2024 The CrowdStrike issue is not a case of ‘security company breaks the world’. Instead, it is a more nuanced discussion around business resilience. At its…
Apple’s announcement that ChatGPT will, it appears, be free on certain iPhones, iPads and Macs has sparked concerns in some quarters about the threat of an “unacceptable security violation”. The…
By Phil Massyn One of the major challenges organisations are facing today is providing transparency into their current security posture which is able to provide both granular detail in addition…
By Brendan Wilkinolls The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought about revolutionary changes in virtually every sector of society. AI offers innovative solutions and uncovers new possibilities, leading to…
Where it all began In the 1980s a new age of technology was dawning, as personal computers started to move from laboratories and specialist engineering uses to something that was…
In today's fast-paced digital world, cyber threats are on the rise exponentially and are a constant stress point for organisations. Remediating any security incidents require logs from different resources and…
Organisations can gain access to a wealth of information, including system detections, vulnerabilities, and configurations, by integrating third-party services such as CrowdStrike's Falcon Query API with security lakes, which have…
Information Security vs Cybersecurity The terms Information Security and Cybersecurity are often used in the media on a daily basis and when words such as attack, threat and breach are…
The business opportunities provided by technology related innovation are immense but these opportunities are also accompanied by an ever increasing level of risk. How does the executive team obtain clarity…
In this post we’ll take you through the logical steps to configure Okta System logs conversion into parquet files in OCSF (Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework) format and storing them with…
