- Why Kotlin Is the Hero Android Needs – 10Clouds Blog – On May 17th Google announced Kotlin as the officially supported language for Android. It was no surprise for us at 10Clouds. It’s been the most important shift in Android development since many ditched the generally hated Eclipse for Android Studio, based on IntelliJ, a beloved IDE among Java Developers.
- Every single Machine Learning course on the internet, ranked by your reviews – For this guide, I spent a dozen hours trying to identify every online machine learning course offered as of May 2017, extracting key bits of information from their syllabi and reviews, and compiling their ratings. My end goal was to identify the three best courses available and present them to you, below.
- Baby steps to the cloud: migrating your corporate website – Cloud isn’t just for new projects —migrating an existing application like a website is often the preferred first step
- AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Platform – Networking – In this series, we’re comparing cloud services from AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. A full breakdown and comparison of cloud providers and their services are available in this handy poster
- Capsule – Package and Deploy JVM Applications – Packages any JVM application, no matter how complex, as a single, plain executable JAR. A capsule may directly contain all of the application’s dependencies or simply declare some or all of them, to be downloaded when launched. Built with standard build tools, it is the fat JAR that always works.
- Microsoft Is Surprisingly Comfy With Its New Place In A Mobile, Apple, And Android World – An awful lot of people own a Windows PC and an iPhone or Android phone. Rather than being unhappy with that, Microsoft now sees it as an opportunity.
- An Algorithm Summarizes Lengthy Text Surprisingly Well – MIT Technology Review – Training software to accurately sum up information in documents could have great impact in many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research
- SqlPad – A web app for running SQL queries and visualizing the results – Web-based SQL editor run in your own private cloud. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, Vertica, Crate, and Presto.
- SQL Notebook – free Windows app for exploring and manipulating tabular data @rickomobilemke – SQL Notebook is a free Windows app for exploring and manipulating tabular data. It is powered by a supercharged SQLite engine, supporting both standard SQL queries and SQL Notebook-specific commands.
- Minishift – Run OpenShift locally — Project Atomic – Minishift is a CLI tool that helps you run OpenShift locally by running a single-node cluster inside a VM
Links for April 23rd through May 6th
- 5 leadership tips motivate employees to do their best work – These five leadership tips can help anyone motivate employees to do their best work.
- Wrapping up Java 9 new Features – In this write up we’re going to have quick, high level look at some of the new features;
- The alarming state of secure coding neglect #security – A survey reveals a deep divide between developer aspirations for security and organizational practices.
- SSH-ing into your AWS Lambda Functions – This post describes how to turn Lambda functions into a short-lived Linux servers with some help from Go’s SSH crypto libraries.
- Red Hat OpenShift.io – A free, end-to-end, cloud-native development experience – Red Hat OpenShift.io – A free, end-to-end, cloud-native development experience
- Serverless Takes DevOps to the Next Level – Serverless doesn’t only supplement DevOps but it goes beyond the current thinking on how IT organisations can achieve greater business agility
- Run headless Chrome on AWS Lambda (maybe Azure, & GCP later) – The aim of this project is to provide the scaffolding for using Headless Chrome during a serverless function invocation. Serverless Chrome takes care of building and bundling the Chrome binaries and making sure Chrome is running when your serverless function executes.
- Resilient service mesh for cloud native apps that adds service discovery, routing, failure handling & visibility – linker∙d is a transparent proxy that adds service discovery, routing, failure handling, and visibility to modern software applications
- OpenShift 3.5 Aims to Lure Java Programmers to the Cloud – The New Stack – For version 3.5 of OpenShift, which premiered Thursday, Red Hat is introducing what it calls cloud-native Java — specifically, as a container image in addition to the existing VM engine.
- The First Wave of Corporate AI Is Doomed to Fail – Artificial intelligence is a hot topic right now. Driven by a fear of losing out, companies in many industries have announced AI-focused initiatives. Unfortunately, most of these efforts will fail. They will fail not because AI is all hype, but because companies are approaching AI-driven innovation incorrectly
- Serverless: The next level of abstraction – Traditional IT → IaaS → PaaS → Serverless (BaaS / FaaS)
Links for April 2nd through April 20th
- Getting started with PHP Serverless – A Cloud Guru – How to use the Serverless Framework to get PHP working in AWS Lambda with an experience that closely mimics native languages
- Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js – After five years working with Node.js, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve already shared a few stories, but this time I wanted to focus on the ones I learned the hard way. Bugs, challenges, surprises, and the lessons you can apply to your own projects!
- Launch: Introducing AWS CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS – AWS CodeStar is a cloud service designed to make it easier to develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS by simplifying the setup of your entire development project. AWS CodeStar includes project templates for common development platforms to enable provisioning of projects and resources for coding, building, testing, deploying, and running your software project.
- Litho – A declarative UI framework for Android – Litho uses a declarative API to define UI components. You simply describe the layout for your UI based on a set of immutable inputs and the framework takes care of the rest
- Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible – JavaScript framework for building data-driven applications – Relay is our JavaScript framework for building data-driven applications
- What CIOs need to know about containers – Organizations that are adopting containers today … see them as part of the bigger picture of continuous delivery, becoming more agile and more flexible.
- Ops in the serverless world: monitoring, logging, config management – Ops in the serverless world: monitoring, logging, config management
- Comparing AWS Lambda performance when using Node.js, Java, C# or Python – How differently does a function perform when using the different programming languages supported by AWS Lambda?
- The Debugging Mindset – Understanding the psychology of learning strategies leads to effective problem-solving skills – Understanding the psychology of learning strategies leads to effective problem-solving skills.
- Rackspace CEO on AWS, OpenStack and the future of the cloud – Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes discusses the company's plans and why the cloud story is only just getting started
Links for March 22nd through March 30th
- 3 years on Google App Engine – An Epic Review. – For the last 3 years I worked on an application that runs on Google App Engine. It is a fascinating, unique piece of service Google is offering here. Unlike anything you'll find elsewhere. This is my in-depth, personal take on it.
- Google Open Source – Bringing better technology to the world by promoting open source – Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology, solving real world problems
- Learning AWS Lambda Can Help Automate Your Build Pipeline – How to create an AWS Lambda serverless function that automatically invokes Webpack and bundles JavaScript
- LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud apps offline! – LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications. Currently, the focus is primarily on supporting the AWS cloud stack.
- MockNeat is a Java 8+ library that facilitates the generation of arbitrary data for your applications. – MockNeat is a Java 8+ library that facilitates the generation of arbitrary data for your applications
- Learning AWS Lambda Can Help Automate Your Build Pipeline – How to create an AWS Lambda serverless function that automatically invokes Webpack and bundles JavaScript
- Enterprise IT Needs to Learn From Google’s Site Reliability Engineering Philosophy – It was 2003 when Ben Treynor realized that a process-oriented, multi-tiered IT ops organization wasn’t going to cut it for Google — so he developed an approach known as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Move Over JSON – Policy Summaries Make Understanding IAM Policies Easier via @duhaas – Today, we added policy summaries to the IAM console, making it easier for you to understand the permissions in your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
- AWS Step Functions: Serverless orchestration on AWS – AWS Step Functions is the last application service released by AWS to solve a problem that many people reading this have probably experienced: orchestrating complex flows using Lambda Functions.
- Incorporating AWS Security Best Practices Into Terraform Design – Implementing AWS security best practices into your Terraform design is an excellent way of ensuring that you have a streamlined way to achieve your security goals and manage your infrastructure.
Links for March 10th through March 21st
- Testing an HTTPS client for the Kubernetes API server using Hoverfly Java – Hoverfly is a lightweight API simulation tool which can be used to simulate HTTP/HTTPS traffic. In this article, I’ll be demonstrating how it can be used to help test my HTTPS client. Thanks to Hoverfly Java's support for JUnit – and it's DSL – creating an HTTPS server for testing is a breeze
- dawson | a serverless framework for Node.js on AWS – dawson is a serverless web framework for Node.js on AWS.
dawson uses AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda to deploy the backend code and to manage the infrastructure for you. - Become-A-Full-Stack-Web-Developer: Free resources for learning Full Stack Web Development – 100+ Free resources for learning Full Stack Web Development.
- Spring Vault – client-side support for accessing, storing and revoking secrets #aws – Spring Vault provides familiar Spring abstractions and client-side support for accessing, storing and revoking secrets. It offers both low-level and high-level abstractions for interacting with Vault, freein
- Android Development Through the Eyes of an iOS Developer – The Coded Self – I’ve recently dipped my toes into Android development to see the differences in environment and tooling as compared to iOS development. While I haven’t done much as of yet, I hope to ship some Android apps in the future alongside some iOS ones. I figured it was time to understand the platform so that I can better relate to the woes of Android development.
- Amazon makes it cheaper to host Alexa skills on AWS – New promotional credits include a one-time $100 AWS credit that's valid for 12 months, plus an additional $100 recurring credit that's doled out on a monthly basis
- Awesome-Swift-Playgrounds: A curated list of Awesome Swift Playgrounds – A curated list of awesome Swift playgrounds
- Introducing Keras 2 – a Deep Learning library for Python, that is simple, modular, and extensible – Keras is a Deep Learning library for Python, that is simple, modular, and extensible
- Google tries to beat AWS at cloud security – New tools that protect enterprise applications running on Google Cloud Platform may help take the spotlight away from AWS and Microsoft Azure
- Worried About Lock-In? Encourage Cloud Skills To Enable Platform Mobility – Reducing the switching cost and burden of lock-in is highly dependent on the skill level of your development teams
Links for February 25th through March 7th
- How We Manage Our Infrastructure: Intro to Stacker #aws – Stacker is Remind’s solution to deploying cloud infrastructure at scale. It allows you to quickly build, update, validate and deploy AWS cloudformation templates
- AWS Health Tools repository, a community-based source of tools to automate remediation actions and customize Health alerts – AWS Health Tools takes advantage of the integration of AWS Health, Amazon CloudWatch Events and AWS Lambda to implement customized automation in response to events regarding your AWS infrastructure.
- Aggregate AWS Trusted Advisor alarms, AWS Health notifications and AWS Support cases from several AWS accounts – Trusted Overlord is a tool aimed to aggregate AWS Trusted Advisor alarms, AWS Health notifications and AWS Support cases from several AWS accounts and build a brief summary with the results.
- Mathematics for Computer Science – Mathematics for Computer Science
- Docker launches Enterprise Edition, courts broader corporate adoption – Developers already love Docker to deploy applications. Now Docker is rolling out a new edition to court more enterprise-wide usage and adoption.
- Captain for Mac – Manage Docker containers. Instantly from the menu bar. – Manage Docker containers – Instantly from the menu bar.
- Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research – Stanford Course – Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research – Stanford Course
- E2EMail is a simple Chrome application – a Gmail client that exchanges OpenPGP mail. – E2EMail is a simple Chrome application – a Gmail client that exchanges OpenPGP mail.
- SQLScout – Manage databases in Android devices, in real time, without leaving Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA – SQLScout is a plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA that provides powerful, dedicated support for managing and debugging SQLite databases.
- Realm Java 3.0: Collection Notifications, Snapshots and Sorting Across Relationships – We’re releasing version 3.0 of Realm Java today. In this release we have enabled sorting across relationships and we’re giving our live collections RealmResults and RealmList a whole lot more life by adding fine-grained collection notifications, so that your app can respond to elements being added, deleted and modified.
Fine-grained Collection Notifications
- Affordable and Scalable Data Analytics on AWS Using Athena and Data Pipeline – Statehill uses AWS to measure the government’s impact into actionable intelligence to help your ability to advocate effectivel
- PDFLayoutTextStripper: Converts a pdf file into a text file while keeping the layout of the original pdf #java #pdfbox – Converts a pdf file into a text file while keeping the layout of the original pdf. Useful to extract the content from a table in a pdf file for instance. This is a subclass of PDFTextStripper class (from the Apache PDFBox library).
Links for February 23rd through February 25th
- The Future of Not Working – As automation reduces the need for human labor, some Silicon Valley executives think a universal income will be the answer — and the beta test is happening in Kenya.
- ML-From-Scratch: Bare bones Python implementations of various Machine Learning models and algorithms. – Python implementations of various Machine Learning models and algorithms from scratch.
- Easily Create Complex Workflows With AWS Step Functions #lambda #aws – AWS Step Functions is a great tool to create sophisticated workflows and state machines for zero-infrastructure applications. There are still many areas which should be improved, but even in its current state AWS Step Functions can be used to solve real-world problems.
- qaz—A CLI tool for Templating & Managing stacks in AWS Cloudformation #aws – Qaz is a Fork of the Bora project by @pkazmierczak that aims to focus on simplifying the process of deploying infrastructure on AWS via Cloudformation by utilising the Go Templates Library and custom functions to generate diverse and configurable templates.
- How Technology Is Destroying Jobs – Automation is reducing the need for people in many jobs. Are we facing a future of stagnant income and worsening inequality?
- Robots Will Devour Jobs More Slowly Than You Think – An automated workforce is inevitable, but humans may labor alongside machines for the foreseeable future.
- Losing Hearts and Minds – Oracle! – I’ve been a loyal Oracle developer for decades, but I’m afraid Oracle has lost the hearts and minds of developers. My son is finishing his B.Sc. in IT and wouldn’t dream of using Oracle tools. If you are an Oracle developer with more than 10 years until retirement, I advise you to start planning for your time after Oracle.
- Hasura – Platform to build & deploy app backends with a Postgres BaaS & a Kubernetes PaaS – Platform to build & deploy app backends with a Postgres BaaS & a Kubernetes PaaS
- What if technology could help improve conversations online? #machinelearning #tensorflow – We are also open sourcing experiments, models, and research data to explore the strengths and weaknesses (e.g. potential unintended biases) of using machine learning as a tool for online discussion
- Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake #cloud – Skylake includes Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512), which make it ideal for scientific modeling, genomic research, 3D rendering, data analytics and engineering simulations. When compared to previous generations, Skylake’s AVX-512 doubles the floating-point performance for the heaviest calculations. In our own internal tests, it improved application performance by up to 30%.
- Inside Facebook’s AI Machine – The Applied Machine Learning group helps Facebook see, talk, and understand. It may even root out fake news.
Links for February 20th through February 21st
- Kubernetes orchestrator now available on Microsoft’s Azure Container Service – It's an open-source love fest: The Kubernetes container cluster manager is now generally available on Microsoft's Azure Container Service.
- Introducing Netflix Stethoscope – project following a User Focused Security approach. – Stethoscope is a web application that collects information for a given user’s devices and gives them clear and specific recommendations for securing their systems.
- RxDB – the reactive, serverless, client-side, offline-first database for your next javascript-application. – Client-Side Database for Browsers, NodeJS, electron, cordova, react-native and every other javascript-runtime
- AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) prescribes rules for expressing Serverless applications on AWS #lambda #serverless – AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) prescribes rules for expressing Serverless applications on AWS.
- Library for effortless Alexa Skill development with AWS Lambda – Library for effortless Alexa Skill development with AWS Lambda. Alexa Skill Kit is available as a Node.js module on NPM
- New AWS AI Blog – in-depth technical content, customer stories, and new feature announcements – On this new AWS blog, we’ll be covering these areas and more, with in-depth technical content, customer stories, and new feature announcements.
- FlexyPool adds metrics and failover strategies to a given Connection Pool, allowing it to resize on demand. – The FlexyPool library adds metrics and flexible strategies to a given Connection Pool, allowing it to resize on demand. This is very handy since most connection pools offer a limited set of dynamic configuration strategies.
- MockWebServer – A scriptable web server for testing HTTP clients – This library makes it easy to test that your app Does The Right Thing when it makes HTTP and HTTPS calls. It lets you specify which responses to return and then verify that requests were made as expected.
- Deeplearning4j: Open-source, Distributed Deep Learning for the JVM #deeplearning – Open-Source, Distributed, Deep Learning Library for the JVM
- Java libraries you can’t miss in 2017 – Java libraries you can't miss in 2017
- micro-auth: A microservice that makes adding authentication with Google and Github to your application easy. – A microservice that makes adding authentication with Google and Github to your application easy.
Links for February 7th through February 17th
- Eliminate engineering bottlenecks in Deep Learning – Floyd Zero Setup Deep Learning – Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your DL models in the cloud. Start running your first project in < 30 sec! Floyd takes care of the grunt work so you can focus on the core of your problem
- Propeller – Front-end framework based on Material Design & Bootstrap – Propeller is a front-end responsive framework based on Google’s Material Design Standards & Bootstrap.
- Take Containers From Development To Amazon ECS – In this tutorial, you will work through the full product development lifecycle for a web application.
- JSONlite- A simple, self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, json document store. – A simple, self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, json document store.
- Microservices and Docker at Scale #Containers – Microservies and Docker have become the peanut butter and jelly of modern app delivery. They allow organizations to work in a consistent, isolated runtime environment.
- Ace – The High Performance Code Editor for the Web – Ace is an embeddable code editor written in JavaScript. It matches the features and performance of native editors such as Sublime, Vim and TextMate.
- The 2016 Android Developer Toolbox – tools to write maintainable code and improve productivity – A demonstration of all the tools we use in 2016 to write maintainable code and improve our productivity
- As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the Universe Are Threatened #automation – Software that works on Wall Street is changing how business is done and who profits from it.
Links for January 19th through February 7th
- Oxford Deep NLP 2017 course – An advanced course on natural language processing – Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing (github.com)
- Building Event-driven Microservices Using CQRS and Serverless as cloud-native applications. – This blog series will introduce you to building event-driven microservices as cloud-native applications.
- Site Reliability Engineering – How Google to builds, deploys, monitors, & maintains some of the largest software systems in the world – Members of the SRE team explain how their engagement with the entire software lifecycle has enabled Google to build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world
- The MVC, MVP, and MVVM Smackdown on Android – This post steps through the MVC, MVP, and MVVM patterns in order. At the beginning of each section we start with a common definition of the major components and responsibilities and then see how that applies to our game.
- What Is Serverless Architecture, and How Does It Help My Business? #serverless #cloud – What Is Serverless Architecture, and
How Does It Help My Business? - reactNativeEverywhere: Starter kit to target multiple platforms with react-native’ APIs. – Starter kit to target multiple platforms with react-native' APIs.
- Git Questions – How to Keep a Git Fork up to Date | IntelliJ IDEA Blog – This video shows an answer to this question which uses Git’s fetch, pull and push from within IntelliJ IDEA.
- OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough – I’m going to describe how the keys are stored, and talk about converting between SSH keys and the original key formats.
- Copycat – A fault-tolerant state machine replication framework built on the Raft consensus algorithm for Java 8 – Copycat is a fault-tolerant state machine replication framework. Built on the Raft consensus algorithm,
- How to Create a Distributed Datastore in 10 Minutes – Copycat is a framework that sidesteps the standard paradigm of building applications dependent on external systems for data consistency by allowing you to embed your application logic, written as a state machine, directly into Copycat, where consistency and fault tolerance are taken care of for you