Links for July 12th through August 11th

vinny August 12, 2018

[toread] Pick a serverless fight: A comparative research of AWS Lambda, Azure Functions & Google Cloud Functions – JAXenter – The saturation point is nowhere to be seen in the serverless discussion with tons of news coming online every day and numerous reports trying to take the pulse…
[toread] ServerlessConf 2018 San Francisco: key takeaways for the future of serverless – It's been amazing to see the lightning fast transformation happening in the serverless space. ServerlessConf 2016 was the conference of serverless projects. By…
[toread] Book Review: Measure What Matters – slashdeploy – Medium – Official Cover Building on a career-long legacy of sharing the power of OKRs with established and emerging leaders alike, Measure What Matters includes a broad…
[toread] Serverless updates – SQS events, private endpoints, Event Gateway open source – npm install serverless -g
[toread] On serverless, data lock-in and vendor choice – I’ve spent the last 5+ years, first at CircleCI and now at Serverless, talking with technology decision makers about their cloud adoption strategies. The number…
[toread] The 10 commandments of serverless – Feedbacks on Serverless with AWS Disclaimer: Despite the title, this is not a holy text. I discovered the serverless world in early 2016, when things were much…
[toread] Serverless: It’s much much more than FaaS – aka Data, Logic and Infrastructure — how do they fit together? I’ve been spending my time since leaving AWS thinking about some of the challenges around…
[toread] Introducing Jib — build Java Docker images better – Containers are bringing Java developers closer than ever to a "write once, run anywhere" workflow, but containerizing a Java application is no simple task: You…
[toread] Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It’s Mostly Good) – Deps is a private, hosted, Maven repository. While building it I had a critical decision to make – Where to host it? I evaluated many different hosting services…
[toread] Why Kubernetes is The New Application Server – RHD Blog – Why Kubernetes is The New Application Server By Rafael Benevides June 28, 2018 June 28, 2018 +9 rating, 11 votes Loading… Have you ever wondered why you are…

Links for June 25th through July 11th

vinny July 12, 2018

[toread] Serverless computing could unleash a new startup ecosystem – While serverless computing isn’t new, it has reached an interesting place in its development. As developers begin to see the value of serverless architecture, a…
[toread] Build a Basic CRUD App with Node and React | Okta Developer – There are a lot of JavaScript frameworks out there today. It seems like I hear about a new one every month or so. They all have their advantages and are usually…
[toread] How to beat the AWS Lambda deployment limits – Hacker Noon – Deploying function code from S3 allows for substantially larger deployment packages when compared to directly uploading to Lambda. Over the past few months I’ve…
[toread] How Droplr Scales to Millions With The Serverless Framework – I'm Antoni Orfin, a Solution Architect at Droplr . We're used by more than 500,000 users, who share thousands of screenshots, screencasts and files every day—so…
[toread] Useful git commands for everyday use! – Flawless App Stories – Medium – Do you know that questions about git get the most views on StackOverflow? I’ve searched a lot on Google how to execute certain actions with git, and this…
[toread] Build a Data Lake Foundation with AWS Glue and Amazon S3 | Amazon Web Services – Build a Data Lake Foundation with AWS Glue and Amazon S3 | AWS Big Data Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS Big Data Blog Build a Data Lake Foundation…
[toread] Event-driven architecture with Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda – For those that follow some of my prior posts , you probably know that I am a huge fan of even-driven patterns. Instead of waiting and polling for changes,…
[toread] AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources | Amazon Web Services – AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources | AWS News Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS News Blog AWS Lambda Adds Amazon…
[toread] Serverless Instant Checkout Links with Square – Servers beware! Watch out containers! Our serverless overlords are here! There is a lot of hype around serverless and talk about it being the end of containers,…
[toread] Techie to tech lead: My five biggest mistakes – As a young, ambitious developer with a strong sense of my own talent, I was eager to become a tech lead, and it took less than four years for me to achieve this…
[toread] Ways to think about machine learning – We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it. It's not just that startups are forming…

Links for June 9th through June 24th

vinny June 24, 2018

[toread] The best ways to test your serverless applications – freeCodeCamp – Serverless is more than a cloud computing execution model. It changes the way we plan, build, and deploy apps. But it also changes the way we test our apps.…
[toread] Why the Data Lake Matters – comments By Yoni Iny, CTO of Upsolver In an article published on this site , Uli Bethke claims that the term “Data Lake” has become overloaded, ill-defined and…
[toread] https://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/kubernetes-for-java-developers.pdf –
[toread] The Road to Extraordinary – In his new book Peak: Secrets of the New Science of Expertise , K. Anders Ericsson proposes that almost all of us have the seeds of excellence within us—it’s…
[toread] 3 Best Practices Java Programmers Can Learn From Spring Framework – DZone Java – There is no doubt that Spring Framework is one of the most popular Java frameworks and makes it really easy to create real-world, enterprise-grade Java…
[toread] Serverless: What You Need to Know – DevOps.com – There are clear benefits to serverless architecture, with many enterprises already making or planning to make this change. Like any paradigm shift however, the…
[toread] Building REST services with Serverless framework, in Node.js, AWS Lambda and DynamoDB – [Today’s random Sourcerer profile: https://sourcerer.io/banister ] Serverless computing is a very popular approach to building server-side applications, and the…
[toread] Convert CSV to Parquet using Hive on AWS EMR – Powerupcloud Tech Blog – Written By: Ranjeeth Kuppala, CTO, Powerupcloud | Contributors: Navya Muniraju, Data Engineer, Powerupcloud If you are visiting this page via google search, you…
[toread] How to GraphQL – The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL – The free and open-source tutorial to learn all around GraphQL to go from zero to production. Watch Overview Start with Introduction GraphQL Fundamentals 42 MIN…
[toread] Serverless 101: How to Get Serverless Started in the Enterprise – The New Stack – In the beginning, there was bare metal , and it was good. Single-tenant servers were fast, reliable and secure — beholden only to their master. Verily, though,…

Links for May 26th through June 7th

vinny June 8, 2018

[toread] How to deploy a Node.js application to AWS Lambda using Serverless – Being a developer is amazing. Writing code, solving problems and thinking of ingenious solutions for complicated algorithms is what we live for. But, the grass…
[toread] A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes – DZone Cloud – Kubernetes has now become the de facto standard for deploying containerized applications at scale in private, public and hybrid cloud environments. The largest…
[toread] Running Spring Boot Applications With Minikube | Baeldung – I just announced the new Spring 5 modules in REST With Spring: >> CHECK OUT THE COURSE 1. Overview In this previous article , we covered a theoretical…
[toread] Simplify Login with Application Load Balancer Built-in Authentication | Amazon Web Services – Simplify Login with Application Load Balancer Built-in Authentication | AWS News Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS News Blog Simplify Login with…
[toread] Microservices on AWS Compute Using Containers and Serverless | Amazon Web Services – Microservices on AWS Compute Using Containers and Serverless | AWS Open Source Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS Open Source Blog Microservices on AWS…
[toread] Creating an Activity State Machine – AWS Step Functions – AWS Documentation » AWS Step Functions » Developer Guide » Tutorials » Creating an Activity State Machine Creating an Activity State Machine You can coordinate…
[toread] Serverless Bytes | Workshop on Building a Serverless Data Processing App – Serverless Bytes is a series of 30-minute live streams which help developers get started with serverless applications. To see further AWS streams visit -…
[toread] Kafka Producer in Java – DZone Big Data – Kafka Tutorial: Writing a Kafka Producer in Java In this tutorial, we are going to create a simple Java example that creates a Kafka producer. You create a new…
[toread] A serverless solution for invoking AWS Lambda at a sub-minute frequency | Amazon Web Services – A serverless solution for invoking AWS Lambda at a sub-minute frequency | AWS Architecture Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS Architecture Blog A…
[toread] Is AWS Fargate – Andy Warzon in aws 6 minutes to read You’ve likely heard the Serverless buzzword. Powerful but loaded. Are there really no servers? You may have heard of…

Links for May 8th through May 20th

vinny May 20, 2018

[toread] Implementing Serverless Manual Approval Steps in AWS Step Functions and Amazon API Gateway | Amazon Web Services – Ali Baghani, Software Development Engineer A common use case for AWS Step Functions is a task that requires human intervention (for example, an approval…
[toread] Orchestrating Container-Based Cloud and Microservice Applications – Summary Containers, mainly Docker, are very popular and solve important cloud application management problems. Technical professionals responsible for…
[toread] Amazon Comprehend – Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) – Amazon Comprehend Discover insights and relationships in text Get started with Amazon Comprehend Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP)…
[toread] Building A Serverless Contact Form For Your Static Site – Static site generators provide a fast and simple alternative to Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress . There’s no server or database setup, just a…
[toread] Microservices: A quick and simple definition – Paperclips lined up on table (source: PDPics via Pixabay ) Attend the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference and learn about microservices and other software…
[toread] How to create a REST API with pre-written Serverless Components – #Introduction You might have already heard about our new project, Serverless Components . Our goal was to encapsulate common functionality into so-called…
[toread] Lambda Internals: Exploring AWS Lambda – Epsagon – Medium – Diving deep down. Photo by Talia Cohen AWS Lambda is an excellent environment for rapid and scalable development. As a developer, I love using it. The main…
[toread] AWS Lambda Deployment using Terraform – Recently a question got asked on Hacker News that grabbed my attention. I wanted to know how others’ experience has been. At ACL, we have multiple Lambda…
[toread] An I&O Leader’s Guide to Serverless Computing – Serverless computing is a relatively new computational model that is quickly gaining adoption in public cloud environments. Despite superficial appearances to…
[toread] Introducing CloudEvents 0.1 – Last week at CloudNativeCon & KubeCon, a specification was announced that aims to help people and applications handle event data, called CloudEvents .…

Links for April 27th through May 5th

vinny May 6, 2018

[toread] Lessons Learned — A Year Of Going “Fully Serverless” In Production – Photo by Aaron Burden At Torii , we decided to go the no-ops path as much as possible meaning we’ll focus all our efforts on our product and not on operations .…
[toread] guide – Architecture A Look Back Over years of building software, distinct architectural patterns have emerged. As newer technologies get introduced, we move to keep…
[toread] guide – Introduction After a decade of cloud computing, we are at the crossroads of a paradigm shift in technology. Barring the confusion and the misconception of the…
[toread] Comparisons: Serverless vs. other tools – Serverless Architectures are enabling a wide range of use cases, but they're not right for every situation. Below, you can see how Serverless compares to other…
[toread] Deploy a REST API using Serverless, Express and Node.js – We're seeing more and more people using Serverless to deploy web applications. The benefits are huge—lightning-fast deployments, automatic scaling, and…
[toread] Why Event Gateway? – #Introduction to Event Gateway The rise of cloud architecture and hyper-ephemeral compute has led to a resurgence of interest in event-driven architectures.…
[toread] Quick Start – #Table of Contents: Intro Installing Serverless Creating a new service Deploying your first service Understanding the event model Adding a database resource…
[toread] Why Serverless? – #Introduction to Serverless Just like wireless internet has wires somewhere, serverless architectures still have servers somewhere. What ‘serverless’ really…
[toread] Why serverless computing is one of the biggest threats to containers – Even as KubeCon Europe got off to a rollicking start with over 4,000 attendees, Brian Leroux, founder of Begin and erstwhile PhoneGap developer, was quietly…
[toread] Machine Learning: From Notebook to Production with Amazon Sagemakers – YouTube Clear History Enable History Disable History 50:59 Machine Learning: From Notebook to Production with Amazon Sagemakers Amazon Web Services 351 views…
[toread] An Introduction to and Evaluation of Apache Spark for Big Data Architectures – An Introduction to and Evaluation of Apache Spark for Big Data Architectures

Links for April 16th through April 26th

vinny April 27, 2018

[toread] Build a serverless multi-region, active-active backend solution in an hour – The solution is built using DynamoDB Global Tables, AWS Lambda, regional API Gateway, and Route53 routing policies In the previous posts, we explored…
[toread] Recommended way for deploying Kubernetes on AWS – Recommended way for deploying Kubernetes on AWS 88 points 89 points 90 points submitted 4 days ago * by sc250024 I am an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer, but…
[toread] How to go all in with serverless adoption – How to go all in with serverless adoption
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[toread] Install on Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk – CA Live API Creator – 3.2 – CA Technologies Documentation – You can install CA Live API Creator to run as a cloud-based service in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk environment. Elastic Beanstalk…
[toread] About Blockchain – “Blockchain” is one of the software industry’s hottest topics. As such, it’s anautomatic discussion subject between distributed systems engineers from acrossthe…
[toread] Node.js APIs on AWS — the pros and cons of Express versus Serverless – Recently I have been playing around with Serverless + AWS lambda and I have to say, I have been awestruck. Over the past few years I have almost exclusively…
[toread] Bootiful Development with Spring Boot and React | Okta Developer – React has been getting a lot of positive press in the last couple years, making it an appealing frontend option for Java developers! Once you learn how it…
[toread] A Complete Tutorial to Learn Data Science with Python from Scratch – Introduction It happened few years back. After working on SAS for more than 5 years, I decided to move out of my comfort zone. Being a data scientist, my hunt…
[toread] The Complete Guide To Deploying JavaScript Applications – Part 1: Database, and API Deployment – TL;DR: Atwood's law states that Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. In 2018, eleven years after this…
[toread] Microservices Explained – News for the Open Source Professional Login / Create Account Brought to you by News Enterprise Desktop Mobile & Embedded Open Source Linux Kernel DevOps…

Links for March 23rd through April 11th

vinny April 11, 2018

[toread] Build a Basic CRUD App with Angular 5.0 and Spring Boot 2.0 | Okta Developer – Technology moves fast these days. It can be challenging to keep up with the latest trends as well as new releases of your favorite projects. I’m here to help!…
[toread] Setting Up Swagger 2 with a Spring REST API | Baeldung – Further reading: Generate Spring Boot REST Client with Swagger Learn how you can generate a Spring Boot REST client using Swagger Code generator. Introduction…
[toread] Productivity – I think I amat least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me forproductivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one…
A list of cool Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks – The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might not know yet
[toread] Red Hat looks beyond Linux – The Red Hat Linux distribution is turning 25 years old this week. What started as one of the earliest Linux distributions is now the most successful open-source…
[toread] Why AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success – I’ve been involved in numerous discussions in recent days and weeks mainly on Twitter, but elsewhere, around when and how serverless is going to be working…
[toread] How To: Build a Serverless API with Serverless, AWS Lambda and Lambda API – Jeremy Daly – Update 3/22/2018: This post has been updated for use with v0.3 of Lambda API. AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway have made creating serverless APIs extremely easy.…
[toread] Using Apache Kafka for Real-Time Event Processing – DZone Big Data – New Relic was an early adopter of Apache Kafka ; we recognized early on that the popular distributed streaming platform can be a great tool for building…
[toread] Apache Kafka – A streaming platform has three key capabilities: Publish and subscribe to streams of records, similar to a message queue or enterprise messaging system. Store…
[toread] 5 Guidelines for Designing RESTful APIs Effectively – DZone Integration – RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) utilize HTTPs for receiving and executing requests. Developed from Representational State Transfer (REST)…

Links for March 11th through March 20th

vinny March 20, 2018

[toread] Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018: Digital Twins – More on This Topic This is part of an in-depth collection of research. See the collection: Series Overview Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018: A…
[toread] The Cloud Engineer: An Evolutionary Role for a New IT Era – Cloud computing is no longer a matter of "if"; it's a matter of "when" and "how." IT organizations have progressed past the definitional phases of cloud…
[toread] 7 Must-Know AWS Lambda tips – Yani Iliev – Medium – 1. Application dependencies error while loading shared libraries: libname.so.1 Put dependencies in lib folder and package them with your executable. AWS Lambda…
[toread] Spring Boot Tutorial – Bootstrap a Simple App | Baeldung – I just announced the new Spring 5 modules in REST With Spring: >> CHECK OUT THE COURSE 1. Overview Spring Boot is an opinionated, convention-over-configuration…
[toread] Innovation playbook: 5 traits of wildly successful tech companies you can adopt today – Today’s top technology companies shine with what Forbes calls an “innovation premium” – additional value they generate in the stock market solely because of…
[toread] Using a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) to Transform the Entire Enterprise – Large enterprises beginning a transformation journey often find that they already have pockets of transformation that have escaped notice. But why haven’t good…
[toread] Video Series: Modernizing Java Apps for Developers Part 1 – Docker Blog – Moving a monolithic application to a modern cloud architecture can be difficult and often result in a greenfield development effort. However, it is possible to…
[toread] Opening Doors with Spring Boot 2.0 – In 1988, psychologist Donald Norman popularized J.J. Gibson’s " Gibsonian Affordance ." This concept refers to “just the action possibilities that are readily…
[toread] Quick tutorial of jenkins – What’s Jenkins? Jenkins is a automation tool. With him, you can create jobs to build, test and deploy your application with any languages. You can create your…
[toread] Getting started with kubernetes using Ansible and Terraform – Click here to share this article on LinkedIn » So, you want to start playing around with kubernetes because hey, why not . You could always run Minikube locally…

Links for February 22nd through February 26th

vinny February 26, 2018

A practical look at basic AWS Networking with Terraform – A conventional AWS Networking Tutorial out there using Terraform doesn't go around the concepts of AWS Networking. Check out how to provision an AWS VPC with multiple subnets and configure security groups using Terraform.
[toread] Why and how do we build a Multi-Region, Active-Active Architecture? – This is the second part of my series on building a multi-region, active-active architectures. In the previous post, we talked about the Quest for Availability…
[toread] Building custom Docker image using Dockerfile – ITMithran – We can build the docker images using Dockerfile Dockerfile is a text file containing command-line instructions. syntax for ‘docker build’: # docker build…
[toread] Java with Docker in VS Code – Java with Docker in VS Code This 15 minutes tutorial will walk you through the process of building a Docker image for running a Java application in Visual…
[toread] Build Java Web Apps with VS Code – Build Java Web Apps with VS Code This 5 minutes tutorial shows you how to create a simple Java web application with Visual Studio Code. You'll learn how to run…
[toread] The Beginner’s Guide to Spring Cloud – About InfoQ InfoQ Writers Contribute About C4Media Exclusive updates on: The Beginner’s Guide to Spring Cloud Recorded at: | by Ryan Baxter Ryan Baxter 0…
The Practical Test Pyramid – This article explores what a well-rounded test portfolio should look like to be responsive, reliable and maintainable – regardless of whether you're building a microservices architecture, mobile apps or IoT ecosystems.
[toread] Docker with Gradle: Dockerizing a Spring Boot application – The use of Docker has become widespread among companies big and small for a variety scenarios. Executing Docker from the command line for simple tasks is easy…
[toread] Building a Multi-region Serverless Application with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services – This post written by: Magnus Bjorkman – Solutions Architect Many customers are looking to run their services at global scale, deploying their backend to…
Micrometer Application Monitoring – Vendor-neutral application metrics facade – Micrometer provides a simple facade over the instrumentation clients for the most popular monitoring systems, allowing you to instrument your JVM-based application code without vendor lock-in. Think SLF4J, but for metrics.