- [toread] Prodigy: A new tool for radically efficient machine teaching – Machine learning systems are built from both code and data. It's easy to reuse the code but hard to reuse the data, so building AI mostly means doing…
- [toread] Introduction to GraphQL – An Introduction to APIs for Complete Beginners Modern apps are interdependent and dynamic. For example, you probably sign in to various web apps using your…
- [toread] Terraform Gotchas And How We Work Around Them – Heap Blog – Heap’s infrastructure runs on AWS, and we manage it using Terraform. This post is a collection of tips and gotchas we’ve picked up along the way. Terraform and…
- Is Amazon’s cloud service too big to fail? – Financial regulators have raised concerns over concentration risk in a vital area of banking infrastructure, but others say reinforcements are unnecessary
- [toread] The Meditation Cure – Much of Buddhism can be boiled down to a bad-news/good-news story. The bad news is that life is full of suffering and we humans are full of illusions. The good…
- Testing a Java Spring Boot REST API with Karate – Learn how to write web service tests with Karate, a new framework for scripting HTTP sequences specifying expectations.
- [toread] My experience passing AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification | Rohini Gaonkar | Pulse | LinkedIn –
- [toread] AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Study with Questions – 1. When should I choose Provisioned IOPS over Standard RDS storage? A. If you have workloads that are not sensitive to consistent performance B. If you have…
- [toread] Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever devised – Lary Wallace | Aeon Essays • r/philosophy – r/philosophy Blog Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever devised – Lary Wallace | Aeon Essays
- [toread] The Business of Artificial Intelligence – F Latest Digital Article It helps to know the three things data scientists do. or more than 250 years the fundamental drivers of economic growth have been…
- [toread] Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time – At Amazon, the Bathroom is an Extension of the Office (2015)
Links for July 3rd through July 20th
- Google not Amazon — Make fantastic savings in a serverless world – Why is IT ignoring Google’s server-less cloud infrastructure? They’re playing with their toys on Amazon and it’s costing tens of millions in missed business automation opportunities
- [toread] Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS – The single biggest misconception about iOS is that it’s good digital hygiene to force quit apps that you aren’t using. The idea is that apps in the background…
- A Massive Guide to Building a RESTful API for Your Mobile App – We wrote this guide to outline the best practices for building out APIs, web services, and databases for mobile apps and mobile clients. In this post, we go in-depth on creating a RESTful API specifically for mobile apps
- 8 keys to DynamoDB success – How to ensure that Amazon’s fast and scalable key-value database works for you, not against you
- Serverless on Google with Cloud Functions and React – O’Reilly Media – Combining serverless architecture with a React frontend means you can spin up applications with minimal administrative overhead.
- The State of Developer Ecosystem 2017 by @jetbrains – In late 2016 and early 2017 we polled over 5,000 developers to identify the State of Developer Ecosystem.
- Basic Spring web application in Java, Kotlin and Scala – comparison · – I’ve been wondering how hard would it be to implement a basic Spring Boot app in alternative JVM languages, such as Scala and Kotlin, so I’ve decided to give it a try 🙂
- Take the Journey: Build Your First Serverless Web Application – You can build your own serverless web application with our new Serverless Web Application Guide, which provides step-by-step instructions for you to create and deploy your serverless web application on AWS.
- Writing High-Performance Swift Code – The following document is a gathering of various tips and tricks for writing high-performance Swift code. The intended audience of this document is compiler and standard library developers.
- Building a Full-Stack App with Serverless and React on AWS – Serverless Stack is an open source guide for building and deploying full-stack apps using Serverless and React on AWS. Create a note taking app from scratch using the Serverless Framework and Create React App. Follow our step-by-step tutorials with screenshots and code samples.
Links for June 4th through July 2nd
- Focus on features – not versions – when building products in the cloud – Why are IT shops using versions to trade stability for productivity? Have your cake and eat it too by deploying features in the cloud!
- Claudia.js – JavaScript cloud micro-services the easy way – Claudia makes it easy to deploy Node.js projects to AWS Lambda and API Gateway. It automates all the error-prone deployment and configuration tasks, and sets everything up the way JavaScript developers expect out of the box
- Start planning now for AWS re:Invent 2017 – A Cloud Guru – AWS re:Invent 2017 is going to be bigger than ever with over 1000 sessions and another record breaking number of attendees
- AWS Security Primer | cloudonaut – I was preparing some AWS Security related training. Soon, I realized that this topic is too huge to fit into my brain. So I structured my thoughts in a mind map. Within a couple of minutes1 I came up with this
- Make apps for the Internet of Things with MIT App Inventor! – MIT App Inventor now brings that same power and simplicity of app creation to the Internet of Things (IoT) and the universe of connected devices.
- MongoDB Stitch is a backend as a service that provides an HTTP API to MongoDB – MongoDB Stitch is a backend as a service that provides an HTTP API to MongoDB
- Genealogy company Ancestry migrates entire infrastructure to AWS – Ancestry is a 34-year-old company and is rarely mentioned for its technological prowess, but it deals in data at a massive scale.
- ‘I’m Not Sure I Understand’ – How Apple’s Siri Lost Her Mojo – Former Apple employees on how Siri's progress was crippled by lack of ambitious goals, shifting strategies, and insufficient usage data
- You can probably use deep learning even if your data isn’t that big – You can still use deep learning in (some) small data settings, if you train your model carefully.
- Official Docker Image for Oracle Java and the OpenJDK Roadmap for Containers – Official Docker Image for Oracle Java and the OpenJDK Roadmap for Containers
Links for May 19th through May 30th
- Awesome AWS: A curated list of awesome Amazon Web Services (AWS) libraries, open source repos, guides, blogs, and other resources. – A curated list of awesome Amazon Web Services (AWS) libraries, open source repos, guides, blogs, and other resources. Featuring the Fiery Meter of AWSome.
- The Hitchhiker’s Video Guide to AWS ECS and Docker – 10 part video series – I released The Hitchhiker's Guide to AWS ECS and Docker a couple of weeks ago. It got a great response – the only thing that seemed to be problematic was the sheer size of the guide.
- Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017 – Below you find a set of charts demonstrating the paths that you can take and the technologies that you would want to adopt in order to become a frontend, backend or a devops.
- Lyft’s Envoy: Architectural migration from monolith to a fully distributed service mesh – In this talk we will cover Lyft's architectural migration from monolith to a fully distributed service mesh, the origins of Envoy, a high level architecture overview, and future directions.
- Netflix Introduces Hollow, a Java Library for Processing In-Memory Datasets – Netflix recently introduced Hollow, a Java library and toolkit designed to efficiently cache datasets not characterized as “big data.” Such datasets may be metadata for e-commerce and search engines, or in the case of Netflix, metadata about movies and TV shows
- Collection of the most common vulnerabilities found in iOS applications – This guide is a collection of the most common vulnerabilities found in iOS applications. The focus is on vulnerabilities in the applications’ code and only marginally covers general iOS system security
- Inversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill Nobody Ever Taught You – Inversion is an essential skill for leading a logical and rational life. It allows you to step outside your normal patterns of thought and see situations from a different angle. Whatever problem you are facing, always consider the opposite side of things.
- Andreessen Horowitz has unveiled its AI Playbook, a microsite intended as a resource for newcomers – Andreessen Horowitz has unveiled its AI Playbook, a microsite intended as a resource for newcomers (both nontechnical and technical) to explore what's possible with AI.
- Android Architecture Components | Android Developers – A new collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps. Start with classes for managing your UI component lifecycle and handling data persistence.
- Official Android Developers Guide to App Architecture – This guide is for developers who are past the basics of building an app, and now want to know the best practices and recommended architecture for building robust, production-quality apps.
- Mavo: A new, approachable way to create Web applications – Mavo helps you turn your static HTML into reactive web applications without a single line of programming code and no server backend.
Links for May 7th through May 19th
- 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).