Links for April 23rd through June 24th

vinny July 2, 2019

[toread] The Future of Web Development – Hacker Noon – Spoiler: writing code is going to get a lot easier Eden Ella Jun 24 Prophesizing is no easy task — when looking at social phenomena (and web development is a…
[toread] Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful – Gabriel Weinberg Jul 5, 2016 2019 UPDATE: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models . You can…
[toread] Four bad ways to use RPA – Software Robots to the Rescue! Or Not?! Automation is often regarded as a mixed blessing. To some it’s the herald of impending job cuts, for others it opens up…
[toread] Julio Biason .Net 4.0 – Things I Learnt The Hard Way (in 30 Years of Software Development) – This is a cynical, clinical collection of things I learnt in 30 years workingwith software development. Again, some things are really cynical, others are long…
[toread] Principles of Chaos Engineering – PRINCIPLES OF CHAOS ENGINEERING Last Update: 2018 May Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the…
[toread] Preparation Guide for ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Certification – I just get my Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Certification and it is time now to share my preparation notes for those who are interested to pass…
[toread] SOLID Principles: The Software Developer’s Framework to Robust & Maintainable Code [with Examples] – From the upcoming free ebook, SOLID – An introduction to software architecture and design principles with Node.js and TypeScript. Writing code can be like…
[toread] aws-samples/aws-open-data-analytics-notebooks – AWS Open Data Analytics Notebooks AWS analytics, AI, and data science service abstractions API built in Amazon SageMaker notebooks This repository contains a…
[toread] The Complete Guide to Deep Work (including a step-by-step checklist) – Illustration by @margaridamouta Let’s get right to the point: bouncing between your inbox, pointless meetings, and group chat notifications is no way to get…
[toread] GraphQL vs REST: putting REST to rest – When you need to build an API, your mind will likely jump to REST , the de facto standard for API creation. However, this is about to change with GraphQL , as…
[toread] Why Serverless Is the Uber of Infrastructure – The New Stack – NS1 sponsored this post. Jonathan Sullivan Jonathan has more than a decade of experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining mission-critical, distributed…
[toread] GOTO 2018 • Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices • Sascha Möllering – YouTube – Go to the Legal Help page to request content changes for legal reasons.
Intelligent Speaker: text to speech browser extension, synced with podcast feed – Intelligent Speaker is a new way of being efficient. Text to speech browser extension runs on leading tts engine and has useful features to make you productive
[toread] Scanning the fintech landscape: 10 disruptive models – May 8, 2019 The range of models is breathtaking, and, drawing from my recent experience as a fintech entrepreneur, investor, and now advisor, I wanted to try…
[toread] HTTP headers for the responsible developer – This article is a written version of the talk “HTTP headers for the responsible developer”. You can check the slides or the recording . Being online is the…
[toread] Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers – Illustrations by Jordan Speer Community leaders say AWS increasingly poses an existential threat Andrew Leonard Apr 24 On March 11, a Vice President at Amazon…
[toread] Don’t just do it, think it too: on learning with Gilbert Ryle – Josh Habgood-Coote | Aeon Essays – Yuki Kawauchi is a remarkable athlete. The winner of the 2018 Boston marathon – known in Japan as the ‘citizen runner’ – worked full-time at a school until…
[toread] Best Practices for AWS Lambda Container Reuse – Optimizing Warm Starts When Connecting AWS Lambda to Other Services Angela Razzell Apr 5 AWS Lambda provides high scalability due to being serverless and…

Links for March 20th through April 21st

vinny April 22, 2019

[toread] Bohemian Wrapsody – Dmytro Danylyk Apr 21 “Wrapping third-party APIs is a best practice.” — Robert C. Martin Intro One of my colleagues told me that wrapping third-party libraries…
[toread] The Great Migration: From SQL Server to AWS Aurora – Over the last nine months, I've been leading a project to migrate 60 Data Analyst users and all their objects from a legacy SQL Server database to a fit for…
[toread] Run your containers on AWS Fargate – ITNEXT – Glenn Wedin Apr 19 Are you like me and want your containers up and running fast and simple and with as little configuration as possible? Then AWS Fargate might…
[toread] Introducing Fenrir: How Coinbase is Scaling Serverless Applications – Graham Jenson Apr 11 Serverless, specifically AWS Lambda, is awesome. It scales from 0 to near infinity, it costs next to nothing, and it integrates with almost…
[toread] A Detailed Overview of AWS API Gateway – AWS API Gateway is an awesome service to use as an HTTP frontend. You can use it for building serverless applications , for integrating with legacy…
[toread] How clean-architecture solved so many of our Serverless problems – Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. For months I deliberated and considered our problems running our serverless microservices locally. They…
[toread] GOTO 2018 • Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices • Sascha Möllering – This presentation was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2018. #gotocon #gotober http://gotober.com Sascha Möllering – Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL…
[toread] Serverless Architectural Patterns – Eduardo Romero Mar 4 Black and white clouds, atmosphere — Photo by Bryan Minear We’re building more and more complex platforms, at the same time that we are…
[toread] Multicloud Serverless Management Platform | TriggerMesh – We Manage Serverless TriggerMesh is a multicloud serverless management platform built on Kubernetes and Knative . Our library of event triggers enables hybrid…
[toread] modules.tf — Convert visual AWS diagram into Terraform configuration – Anton Babenko Nov 19, 2018 I am excited to announce the public-release of modules.tf , which allows a conversion from visual AWS diagrams using cloudcraft.co to…

Links for December 19th through March 20th

vinny March 21, 2019

[toread] https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Overview-AWS-Lambda-Security.pdf –
[toread] My favorite free courses to learn data structures and algorithms in depth – javinpaul Feb 26 Data structures and algorithms are some of the most essential topics for programmers, both to get a job and to do well on a job. Good knowledge…
[toread] Where Warren’s Wrong – Senator Elizabeth Warren deserves credit: I have been writing about antitrust , particularly in the context of Aggregation Theory , for years, but the most…
[toread] Serverless FAQ – Some common questions answered. Serverless Guru Mar 8 https://pixabay.com/photos/road-highway-lights-auto-night-4032928/ In this article, we dive into some…
[toread] Best Practices for Serverless Development – Let’s take a look at some Serverless best practices. Serverless Guru Mar 6 https://pixabay.com/photos/berlin-holocaust-monument-memorial-3710509/ In this…
[toread] Build a serverless data pipeline with AWS S3 Lamba and DynamoDB – Yi Ai Mar 5 AWS Lambda plus Layers is one of the best solutions for managing a data pipeline and for implementing a serverless architecture. This post shows how…
[toread] Deploy your existing Nodejs APIs in serverless — AWS Lambda – Sasi Rekha Mar 9 Photo by Pankaj Patel on Unsplash When i first tried to deploy my existing nodejs rest APIs in Serverless it took quite long time to figure out…
[toread] Scott Knaster on Twitter – Scott Knaster @ scottknaster pic.twitter.com/CJQdqIFWvw Twitter by: Scott Knaster @scottknaster Kevin Marks @ kevinmarks Phil Shiller? Scott Knaster @…
[toread] Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in 10 minutes – Mar 4, 2019 by Ev Kontsevoy What is a Microservice? What is a microservice? Should you be using microservices? How are microservices related to containers and…
[toread] Using Terraform and Serverless Framework – Image from wikicommons . The Serverless framework (SF) is a fantastic tool for testing and deploying lambda functions, but it’s reliance on cloudformation makes…
[toread] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-3.pdf –
[toread] Building A Serverless IoT FinTech App with AWS and NodeJS – Building an AWS native, Node.js, serverless, event-driven system to back up an IOT device capable of real time messaging and events. Joshua Toth Feb 10 In…
[toread] Famous laws of Software development – Like any other field, the world of Software Development has some interesting and famous rules, principles and laws. Programmers, developers, managers and…
[toread] How To Approach Any Algorithm Interview Without Panicking – Sun-Li Beatteay Jan 30 Let’s be honest, algorithm problems are still very much a part of the job search. While there’s an ever-expanding list of companies that…
[toread] Serverless Functions in Depth – Nader Dabit – Medium – Nader Dabit Feb 22 A deep-dive on how to build, test, deploy, update, & delete serverless functions with AWS Amplify . In this tutorial, you’ll learn the…
[toread] What is NLG, and how does it relate to NLP and other forms of AI? – NLG is a type of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
[toread] Strategy’s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt – A giant in the field of strategy ruminates on strategic planning, diversification and focus, and the role of the CEO. As a mountaineer Richard Rumelt, a…
[toread] SOLID Java – On this page SOLID Java Single Responsibility Principle SRP Example SRP Code smells SRP Goodies Open/closed Principle OCP Example OCP Code smells OCP Goodies…
[toread] Building a Todo app using ReactJS and Serverless – Hashnode – Lately, I have been experimenting a lot with AWS Lambda and other serverless platforms. To teach myself the concept of serverless I built a simple todo app…
[toread] AWS Lambda Simplified With Serverless Framework – ITNEXT – If you have used AWS Lambda to create an API using API Gateway before, then you must know the pain of creating and managing them with frequent updates. This was…
[toread] AWS Aurora MySQL – HA, DR, and Durability Explained in Simple Terms – PREVIOUS POST NEXT POST It’s a few weeks after AWS re:Invent 2018 and my head is still spinning from all of the information released at this year’s conference.…
[toread] Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing – RISE Lab – David Patterson and Ion Stoica The publication of “ Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing ” on February 10, 2009 cleared up the considerable…
[toread] PKI for busy people – PKI for busy people Chris Rehn Home RSS Public-key infrastructure (PKI) is an umbrella term for everything that has to do with certificate and key management.…
[toread] On Being A Principal Engineer – 6 min read The manager’s path I bought and read The Manager’s Path by the awesome Camille Fournier when it first came out. At the time, I was a senior Database…
[toread] AI for Dummies: A simple guide to understanding artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning – AI doesn't have to be daunting. This guide from HPE explains everything you need to know to fuel your business with cutting-edge cognitive technologies. You may…
[toread] Machine Learning for Everyone – Why do we want machines to learn? This is Billy. Billy wants to buy a car. He tries to calculate how much he needs to save monthly for that. He went over dozens…
[toread] AWS Advanced Networking Specialty Exam Tips and Tricks – 21 Dec 2018 If you’re planning on taking the AWS Advanced Networking Specialty exam, I’ve compiled a quick list of tips that you may want to remember headed…
[toread] Apache HBase : Headstart for a beginner – Nagesh Singh Chauhan – Medium – Nagesh Singh Chauhan Jan 23 If you’re running a web site with a large number of customers, you’ve experienced the dreaded Big Data Performance Paradox. Just…
[toread] A Lifetime of Systems Thinking – The Systems Thinker – W hen one reaches 80, one is considered to be ripe and ready for picking. Picking usually consists of the pickers asking the pickee to reflect back on the…
[toread] Ray Kurzweil: ‘AI is Still on Course to Outpace Human Intelligence’ – Ray Kurzweil: 'AI is Still on Course to Outpace Human Intelligence' by B.J. Murphy The Singularity is near(er)! At least, that’s what the famous inventor and…
[toread] A smorgasbord of the slightly useful – wardleymaps – Medium – Chapter 11 swardley Jan 11, 2017 “Here’s one I made earlier” is the staple diet of TV programmes when faced with the possibility that something might go wrong.…
[toread] Graham Lyons | Machine Learning for the Lazy Beginner – This article was prompted by a tweet I saw which asked for a walkthrough on training a machine learning service to recognise new members of 3 different data…
[toread] How to teach Git – The problem I found Some of my professional experiences have involved participating in cross-functional areas, so I knew all my colleagues’ way of working. I…
[toread] Graham Lyons | A Zero-Fricton Terraform Primer – What is Terraform and why should you care? How can you learn about it without having to provision real stuff in your Amazon account? Infrastructure as Code Back…
[toread] Building Your Next Serverless Application: The Complete Guide. – Wassim Chegham Dec 27, 2017 The overall architecture of our serverless application I bet you’ve already heard of Serverless architectures: The next evolution of…
[toread] https://blog.bitsrc.io/serverless-function-to-sync-data-from-a-database-to-google-spreadsheet-c71af04a1a34 –
[toread] Containers won the battle, but will lose the war to serverless — Simon Wardley – Forrest Brazeal : You’ve been around IT for quite awhile, and you’re an enthusiastic proponent of serverless development — how long has serverless been on your…
[toread] AWS reInvent 2018 recap edition – AWS reInvent 2018 recap edition Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. If you continue…
[toread] The secrets of learning a new language – 612,763 Views Lýdia Machová at TED Salon: Brightline Initiative Editor's note: This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Brightline…
[toread] Trek10 | From relational DB to single DynamoDB table: a step-by-step exploration – Forrest Brazeal in aws 14 minutes to read Of all the sessions I’ve seen from AWS re:Invent 2018, my favorite is certainly this bewildering drop-kick of NoSQL…
[toread] Netflix OSS and Spring Boot — Coming Full Circle – Netflix TechBlog – Medium – Taylor Wicksell, Tom Cellucci, Howard Yuan, Asi Bross, Noel Yap, and David Liu Netflix Technology Blog Dec 18 In 2007, Netflix started on a long road towards…
[toread] An illustrated guide to Kubernetes Networking [Part 3] – Everything I learned about the Kubernetes Networking Amanpreet Singh Dec 9 This is the third part of the series about Kubernetes Networking. If you haven’t read…
[toread] An illustrated guide to Kubernetes Networking [Part 2] – Everything I learned about the Kubernetes Networking Amanpreet Singh Nov 29, 2017 This is the second part of the series about Kubernetes Networking. If you…
[toread] An illustrated guide to Kubernetes Networking [Part 1] – Everything I learned about the Kubernetes Networking Amanpreet Singh Nov 15, 2017 Y ou’ve been running a bunch of services on a Kubernetes cluster and reaping…

Links for October 17th through December 14th

vinny December 17, 2018

[toread] A map for Machine Learning on AWS – Julien Simon – Medium – Julien Simon Dec 14 It looks like Christmas is a little early this year 😉 Here’s a little something from me to all of you out there: a map to navigate ML…
[toread] How to publish and use AWS Lambda Layers with the Serverless Framework – AWS re:Invent is in full swing, with AWS announcing a slew of new features. Most notably, we’re pretty excited about AWS Lambda's support for Layers. Layers…
[toread] The Friendship That Made Google Huge – The company’s top coders seem like two halves of a single mind. Illustration by David Plunkert One day in March of 2000, six of Google ’s best engineers…
[toread] Stripe Atlas: Guide to scaling engineering organizations – Introduction At Stripe, we think a lot about scale. As we’ve scaled our products to process billions of dollars a year for millions of businesses, we’ve also…
[toread] Introduction to Web scraping with Java – Web scraping or crawling is the fact of fetching data from a third party website by downloading and parsing the HTML code to extract the data you want. Since…
[toread] The Last Bastion Of Human Trading Is Giving Up To the Algorithmic Overlords – The Last Bastion Of Human Trading Is Giving Up To the Algorithmic Overlords
[toread] Tensorflow 2.0: models migration and new design – Tensorflow 2.0 will be a major milestone for the most popular machine learning framework: lots of changes are coming, and all with the aim of making ML…
[toread] The Ultimate VSCode Setup for JS/React – My The Ultimate Atom Editor Setup (+for JS/React) post is pretty popular, but not long ago I migrated to VSCode . Why? Speed, stability and TypeScript. Overall,…
[toread] Building a Node.js Service with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and Serverless Framework | Keyhole Software – As a developer, my favorite new technology is serverless computing. The convenience and cost make it a compelling choice for running options in the cloud–…
[toread] Serverless Backend using AWS Lambda: Hands-on Guide – Serverless architecture refers to the concept where you give your backend logic to a third party vendor’s server architecture. Doing this allows a developer to…
[toread] Kite – AI-Powered Python Copilot – Introduction Python is the fastest-growing programming language out there. That isn’t surprising given that it’s simple, easy to use, free, and applicable for…
[toread] Graham Lyons | Everything You Need To Know About Networking On AWS – Disclaimer: I’m not a network engineer and never have been – a tame network engineer has been consulted to ensure factual and terminological accuracy. The…
[toread] AWS Lambda Security Quick-Start Guide – In January 2018, the world's first Serverless Security Top 10 guide was published. The guide was an effort lead by PureSec together with industry thought…
[toread] Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department | Stitch Fix Technology – Multithreaded – Why is that? If you read the recruiting propaganda of data science and algorithm development departments in the valley, you might be convinced that the…
[toread] TRAIN AI 2018 – Building the Software 2.0 Stack – Join Log in Host videos Compare plans Professionals Businesses Live streaming Features Video School Sell your videos Launch a subscription service Watch Staff…
[toread] A Gentle Visual Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas – If you’re planning to learn data analysis, machine learning, or data science tools in python, you’re most likely going to be using the wonderful pandas library.…
[toread] Deep Learning Book Series · Introduction – The Deep Learning Book – Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., and Courville, A. (2016) This content is part of a series following the chapter 2 on linear algebra from…
[toread] Java Libraries are Your Lambda Enemy – IOpipe Blog – Java Libraries are Your Lambda Enemy So you are using AWS Lambda and your invocations seem to be running a bit slow, especially in the cold start area. Have you…
[toread] A Tour of The Top 10 Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies – In machine learning, there’s something called the “ No Free Lunch ” theorem. In a nutshell, it states that no one algorithm works best for every problem, and…
[toread] IBM’s Old Playbook – The best way to understand how it is Red Hat built a multi-billion dollar business off of open source software is to start with IBM. Founder Bob Young explained…
[toread] Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice – Perched atop the Cerro Pachón ridge in the Chilean Andes is a building site that will eventually become the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). When it…
[toread] Is front-end development having an identity crisis? – Courtesy Adobe Stock Does front-end development as a we know it still exist; or has the role evolved into something we no longer recognise? As with evolution in…
[toread] AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface – Build, Test, and Debug Serverless Apps Locally | Amazon Web Services – Decades ago, I wrote page after page of code in 6502 assembly language. After assembling and linking the code, I would load it into memory, set breakpoints at…
[toread] How to apply SOLID principles in React applications – In this article, we are going to look at the SOLID principles and how to apply them in the React. For the sake of simplicity, I will not provide the full…
[toread] Python, Boto3, and AWS S3: Demystified – Real Python – Table of Contents Installation Client Versus Resource Common Operations Creating a Bucket Naming Your Files Creating Bucket and Object Instances Understanding…
[toread] Innovation Isn’t About Ideas – Member Feature Stories – Medium – E very enterprise needs to innovate. It doesn’t matter whether you’re are a profit-seeking business, a nonprofit organization, or a government entity. The…

Links for September 29th through October 15th

vinny October 16, 2018

[toread] Examples of CTAS Queries – Amazon Athena – AWS Documentation » Amazon Athena » User Guide » Querying Data in Amazon Athena Tables » Creating a Table from Query Results (CTAS) » Examples of CTAS Queries…
[toread] Google GKE vs Microsoft AKS vs Amazon EKS – kubedex.com – Edit: The spreadsheet now also includes IBM IKS and Alibaba Cloud ACK too. There have been many comparisons done between these cloud hosted Kubernetes providers…
[toread] Implementing JSON Web Tokens & Passport.js in a JavaScript Application with React – B efore you say it, I know, I know. There’s already a literal ton of MERN tutorials out there showing how to use JWT (JSON Web Tokens) and Passport.js with…
[toread] Data is giving rise to a new economy – AN OIL refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses: ornate cracking towers its gothic pinnacles, flaring gas its stained…
[toread] Using machine learning to index text from billions of images – In our previous blog post s , we talked about how we updated the Dropbox search engine to add intelligence into our users’ workflow, and how we built our…
[toread] Three Reasons Why You Should Encourage Your Business Partners to Experiment with Technology – CEB Enterprise Architecture Leadership Council – The days of the IT monopoly on technology spending are over. In years gone by, IT aimed to find areas of “shadow IT” and close them down, but the advent of SaaS…
[toread] The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job – Gabrielle Lurie / Reuters I n 2016, an anonymous confession appeared on Reddit: “From around six years ago up until now, I have done nothing at work.” As far as…
[toread] Developing a More Flexible Mind : zen habits – It’s my belief that a flexible mind helps us to deal with chaos, loss, big life changes, small frustrations, and all that life throws our way. A flexible mind…
[toread] Is NoOps the Future of Cloud Networking? – DevOps.com – As enterprises move more of their applications, data and operations to the cloud, competitive success becomes increasingly about speed. If the answer to a…
[toread] Why Serverless Is the Only Way to Build APIs in 2018 – The New Stack – Stackery sponsored this post. There are three primary ways to create an API when it’s not logical or practical to create the API from within your own web app.…

Links for September 10th through September 28th

vinny September 28, 2018

[toread] An Introduction to Serverless Microservices – Jeremy Daly – Thinking about microservices, especially their communication patterns, can be a bit of a mind-bending experience for developers. The idea of splitting an…
[toread] A 30MB native image with Helidon to run REST based microservices –
[toread] Serverless Best Practices – Paul Johnston – Medium – Within the community we’ve been debating the best practices for many years, but there are a few that have been relatively accepted for most of that time. Most…
[toread] How to Become a Better Software Developer: A Handbook on Personal Performance – There’s a big difference between writing code and being a great programmer . Writing code is the output–and almost anyone can learn the basics of syntax and…
[toread] Containers vs. Serverless from a DevOps standpoint – Two buzzwords walk into a bar… No? Yeah, let's not go there. If you feel like this, you're in the right place. Both containers and serverless have been the…
[toread] Multi-Cloud Is a Trap – It comes up in a lot of conversations with clients. We want to be cloud-agnostic. We need to avoid vendor lock-in. We want to be able to shift workloads…
[toread] Apache Kafka with and without a Data Lake – Apache Kafka is a cornerstone of many streaming data projects. However, it is only the first step in the potentially long and arduous process of transforming…
[toread] Serverless Microservice Patterns for AWS – Jeremy Daly – I’m a huge fan of building microservices with serverless systems. Serverless gives us the power to focus on just the code and our data without worrying about…
[toread] A guide to logging in Java – Developers can use this guide to discover, understand and use the right Java logging library for their applications, like Log4j2, Logback, or java.util.logging.…
[toread] A crash course on Serverless with AWS – Triggering Lambda with SNS Messaging – If you're like me, a sucker for event-driven programming, you'll want to continue reading. Today we'll take a look at triggering AWS Lambda functions from AWS…

Links for August 26th through September 5th

vinny September 5, 2018

[toread] Serverless Web Scraping with Java – Serverless is a term referring to the execution of code inside ephemeral containers (Function As A Service, or FaaS). It is a hot topic in 2018, after the…
[toread] Putting The Dev Into DevOps: Why Your Developers Should Write Terraform Too – Terraform is an amazing tool for provisioning infrastructure. Terraform enables your operators to perform their work faster and more reliably. But if only your…
[toread] How SimilarWeb analyze hundreds of terabytes of data every month with Amazon Athena and Upsolver | Amazon Web Services – How SimilarWeb analyze hundreds of terabytes of data every month with Amazon Athena and Upsolver | AWS Big Data Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS Big…
[toread] Apache Spark and Amazon SageMaker, the Infinity Gems of analytics – In a previous post, I showed you how to build a spam classifier by running PySpark on an Amazon SageMaker notebook instance. This is a fine setup for…
[toread] How to build a machine learning model – Amazon Web Services (AWS) – How to build a machine learning model – Amazon Web Services (AWS) Get Started with the Implementation Guide 6 Steps | 30 Minutes Main Services Used and Costs…
[toread] Open sourcing Terratest: a swiss army knife for testing infrastructure code – Yevgeniy Brikman Co-founder of Gruntwork, Author of “Hello, Startup” and “Terraform: Up & Running” Apr 30 Tools to test Terraform, Packer, Docker, AWS, and much…
[toread] Ten Things Python Programmers Should Know – Update May 18, 2017 : It’s been almost four years since I wrote this originalblog post. It has become, according to Google Analytics, the most popular blogpost…
[toread] Serverless computing update: The latest on the top 4 platforms | TechBeacon – If you're not doing serverless computing now, chances are you will be soon. And if you're already working with serverless , its role in IT operations is only…
[toread] GraphQL Server Tutorial with Apollo Server and Express – RWieruch – Follow I was devastated hearing the news about what happened on Lombok in the last couple of days. Having lived in Bali for the last few months, I have a huge…
[toread] How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another – D-BASE/Getty Images Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into…

Links for August 13th through August 24th

vinny August 24, 2018

[toread] 10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey – Netflix, Mapbox, A Cloud Guru, BlackBoard, Conde Nast, and New York Times. Do you know what these companies have in common? All migrated to serverless and have…
[toread] (1) Serverless Streams, Topics, Queues, & APIs! Pick the Right Serverless Application Pattern – YouTube – Go to the Legal Help page to request content changes for legal reasons.
[toread] Hitchhiker’s Guide to AWS Step Functions – Announced during re : Invent 2016, AWS Step Functions is the spiritual descendant of the not-so-simple-to-use Simple Workflow (SWF) service. It addresses many…
[toread] A crash course on serverless-side rendering with Vue.js, Nuxt.js and AWS Lambda – That's a mouthful of a title right there. Don't let it scare you away. What it boils down to is rather simple. We want the best of both worlds. The SEO boost…
[toread] Write quality mobile apps in any architecture – In the beginning, there was MVC (Model-View-Controller) — for a long time the main pattern Apple and Google promoted in their tutorials for iOS and Android…
[toread] How to streamline your serverless workflow with WebStorm – If you build serverless applications, here’s a serverless-specific IDE setup that will help you streamline your workflow. Over the past few years, I’ve been…
[toread] Our (not so smooth) journey productising a serverless app on AWS – by Wolfram Hempel ( @wolframhempel ) Mon Aug 06 2018 Serverless is the future. I'm sure of it. The cloud's great promise is to help companies focus on business…
[toread] Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year | Hacker News – I think this hits at the crux of the issue around the performance/behaviour of Musk and other leaders of hugely ambitious companies.
And I think it highlights…
[toread] This is why anyone can learn Machine Learning – freeCodeCamp – Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash Introduction Machine Learning has traditionally been a technology that only PhDs and institutions with lots of financial…
[toread] Rethinking the way you build software with serverless – SD Times – The way software is built is constantly changing to meet the ongoing pressure of getting to the market faster and keeping up with the competition. The software…
[toread] Takeaways from the ServerlessConf SF 2018 – lumigo – Medium – By Erez Berkner , CEO & Co-Founder of Lumigo Last week I attended ServerlessConf SF . This was the 8th and largest ServerlessConf to date with more than 550…

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…

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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…

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