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
Considering migration to serverless? Read this 10-step guide
[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.

Links for February 11th through February 20th

vinny February 20, 2018

[toread] Serverless Architectures – This article provides an in-depth look at serverless architecture and as a result is a long read. If you need a concise summary of what serverless is and its…
[toread] HATEOAS – a simple explanation | E4developer – HATEOAS – Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, a name long enough to intimidate and confuse. Behind this complicated name we have a rather simple and…
[toread] Azure for AWS Professionals – 03/24/2017 15 minutes to read Contributors In this article This article helps Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts understand the basics of Microsoft Azure…
[toread] Setting up Database Servers for Development on Mac OS X Using Docker – If you are beginning your software development career and using Mac, and interested in using relational databases like MySQL/MariaDB , PostgreSQL , Microsoft…
[toread] Static Websites On AWS S3 With Serverless Framework – While looking for a project to work on, I noticed there’s a very simple serverless pattern that I don’t see written about much: website hosting. We often…
[toread] DevOps Bookmarks – Dead Man’s Snitch A cron job monitoring tool that keeps an eye on your crontab and notifies you when something doesn’t happen. linux free monitoring ruby
[toread] Build a Microservices Architecture for Microbrews with Spring Boot | Okta Developer – Adopting a microservice architecture provides unique opportunities to add failover and resiliency to your systems, so your components can handle load spikes and…
[toread] Sky-High Salaries Are the Weapons in the AI Talent War – If you want to command a multiyear, seven-figure salary, you used to have only four career options: chief executive officer, banker, celebrity entertainer, or…
[toread] Decentralized Digital Identities and Blockchain – The Future as We See It. – Howdy folks, I hope you’ll find today’s post as interesting as I do. It’s a bit of brain candy and outlines an exciting vision for the future of digital…
[toread] 9 Stoic Practices That Will Help You Thrive In The Madness Of Modernity – When Zeno of Cypress was shipwrecked and stranded on Athens, he wasn’t expecting any good to happen. Having lost everything and with not much else to do, Zeno…
[toread] One Man’s Quest to Make Google’s Gadgets Great – It’s early in the morning on October 4, 2016, and in a few seconds, Rick Osterloh will present Google’s latest gadget portfolio to the world. He’s not even six…

Links for February 4th through February 10th

vinny February 10, 2018

Kubernetes, the Choice for Container Orchestrator – The software development ecosystem is settling on Kubernetes and related tools to solve the common problems.
A beginner’s guide to Progressive Web Apps – A Progressive Web App is an app that can provide additional features based on the device support , providing offline capability, push notifications and almost native app look and speed, and local caching of resources.
A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud apps offline! – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud apps offline
Reactor in Action – using reactor-netty as a client, along with some naive solutions and how to improve on them. – Simon Baslé and Victor Grazi demo Reactor covering multi-batching, debugging, using reactor-netty as a client, along with some naive solutions and how to improve on them.
Reactive emoji tracker with WebClient and Reactor: consuming SSE – In this article, we will learn how to consume infinite SSE (server-sent events) stream with Spring’s WebClient and Project Reactor.
[toread] Ansible 101 – on a Cluster of Raspberry Pi 2s – YouTube – Go to the Legal Help page to request content changes for legal reasons.
[toread] Twitter is now worth more than Snap – Adding to what’s already a Very Weird 2018 , Twitter now has a bigger market cap than Snapchat maker Snap after posting a thoroughly interesting earnings beat…
[toread] What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death – Illustration by Jon Han My old iPad just turned five, and it’s starting to die. If it could wonder about such things, it might question this prognosis. Its…
[toread] The Kubernetes Effect – Key Takeaways The way we should look at Kubernetes is more like a fundamental paradigm that has implications in multiple dimensions, rather than an API to…
[toread] An Exhaustive Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Node.js Web Apps – Praveen Durairaj Application Engineer @HasuraHQ. Tech Enthusiast. Feb 7 TL;DR This post is filled with examples ranging from a simple Dockerfile to multistage…
[toread] Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaurs – Actualize – Medium – Images from Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North CSS is strangely considered both one of the easiest and one of the hardest languages to learn as a web developer. It’s…
Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure – A short guide on features of Python 3 for data scientists – Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure – A short guide on features of Python 3 for data scientists

Links for January 28th through February 4th

vinny February 4, 2018

[toread] The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought – A year ago, before the investor lawsuits and the federal investigations, before the mass resignations, and before the connotation of the word “Uber” shifted…
[toread] How to Use DockerHub – In the previous articles, we learned the basics of Docker terminology , how to install Docker on desktop Linux, macOS, and Windows, and how to create container…
[toread] How to Create a Docker Image – In the previous article , we learned about how to get started with Docker on Linux, macOS, and Windows. In this article, we will get a basic understanding of…
[toread] How to Install Docker CE on Your Desktop – In the previous article, we learned some of the basic terminologies of the container world. That background information will come in handy when we run commands…
[toread] Container Basics: Terms You Need to Know – Advertisement Swapnil Bhartiya December 28, 2017 containers-krissia-cruz.jpg Swapnil Bhartiya explains some of the basic terms used in the Docker container…
[toread] Course Introduction | Introduction | DAT203.1x Courseware | edX – <div class="xblock xblock-student_view xblock-student_view-vertical" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-init="VerticalStudentView"…
[toread] Azure Stream Analytics and Machine Learning integration – 07/06/2017 7 minutes to read Contributors In this article This article describes how to quickly set up a simple Azure Stream Analytics job that integrates Azure…
[toread] First look at What’s New in Azure Machine Learning – YouTube – Go to the Legal Help page to request content changes for legal reasons.
[toread] Application Security in a DevOps Environment – Lyft Engineering – It seems like every AppSec vendor pitch talks about how you can shift security “to the left” and they can help you transition to “DevSecOps”. When I hear these…
Hacker101 is a free class for web security – Hacker101 is a free class for web security. Whether you're a programmer with an interest in bug bounties or a seasoned security professional, Hacker101 has something to teach you.

Links for January 14th through January 26th

vinny January 27, 2018

[toread] Deploy a Web UI for Your Chatbot | Amazon Web Services – Deploy a Web UI for Your Chatbot | AWS Machine Learning Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS Machine Learning Blog Deploy a Web UI for Your Chatbot by…
Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts. – This tutorial walks you through setting up Kubernetes the hard way
Infrastructure As Code Tutorial – This tutorial is intended to show what the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is, why we need it, and how it can help you manage your infrastructure more efficiently.
[toread] Products Over Projects – Software projects are a popular way of funding and organizing software development. They organize work into temporary, build-only teams and are funded with…
[toread] Building Blocks of Amazon ECS | Amazon Web Services – So, what’s Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) ? ECS is a managed service for running containers on AWS, designed to make it easy to run applications in the…
[toread] Riding the Unicorn: A Newbie Contributor’s Guide to Kubernetes | Amazon Web Services – Riding the Unicorn: A Newbie Contributor’s Guide to Kubernetes | AWS Open Source Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS Open Source Blog Riding the Unicorn:…
[toread] AWS Re:Invent and KubeCon: The Race to Invisible Infrastructure – The New Stack – Yaron Haviv Yaron Haviv, the CTO and co-founder of iguazio, is a serial entrepreneur involved in big data, cloud, storage and networking. Prior to iguazio,…
AWS cloud services features: A guide to the right tools for the job – Find out the most common reasons for migrating to Amazon Web Services, and which AWS components you'll need to succeed
[toread] MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning – YouTube – This is lecture 1 of course 6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars (2018 version). This class is free and open to everyone. It is an introduction to the…
[toread] The man who brought Netflix to AWS has big plans for Kubernetes – SiliconANGLE – It was a gutsy decision back in 2009. Video distribution pioneer Netflix Inc. was weighing its options on whether to stay with its traditional data center model…