- Introducing Heroku Private Spaces: Private PaaS, delivered as-a-Service – new Heroku runtime that delivers the best of both worlds; the simplicity and success of the cloud, combined with the network and trust controls historically only available with on premise, behind the firewall deployments. Available today in public beta, Private Spaces is powered by Heroku Dogwood — an all-new runtime architecture that augments the current Cedar runtime
- Lovefield – A relational database for web apps written in JavaScript – Lovefield is a relational database for web apps. It is written in JavaScript and works cross-browser. It provides SQL-like APIs that are fast, safe, and easy to use
- Chef Raises $40 Million in Funding Amidst Record Demand for DevOps – Chef is a pioneer in DevOps, the cultural and professional movement underpinning the digital transformation of every enterprise today. Chef is recognized as the standard automation platform for the DevOps workflow, with companies including Facebook, GE, Target, Bloomberg, Nordstrom, Gap, IBM, Yahoo, and Intuit, among more than 750 customers using Chef to accelerate software delivery and reduce operational risk. AWS, HP, and Microsoft, which today made Chef available on its Azure Marketplace (see separate release), have all joined Chef’s go-to-market efforts, solidifying Chef as the premier automation platform for DevOps.
- WS Cloud Design Patterns – collection of solutions and design ideas for using AWS cloud technology to solve common systems design problems – The AWS Cloud Design Patterns (CDP) are a collection of solutions and design ideas for using AWS cloud technology to solve common systems design problems
- sslip.io is a means for developers to test against valid SSL certificates without the bother of purchasing them. – sslip.io is a means for developers to test against valid SSL certificates without the bother of purchasing them.
- The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational – Some social psychologists believe our cognitive biases help us process information more efficiently, especially in dangerous situations. Still, they lead us to make grave mistakes. We may be prone to such errors in judgment, but at least we can be aware of them. Here are some important ones to keep in mind.
- Diffy: Testing services without writing tests – Diffy finds potential bugs in your service by running instances of your new and old code side by side. It behaves as a proxy and multicasts whatever requests it receives to each of the running instances. It then compares the responses, and reports any regressions that surface from these comparisons.
- Enterprise DevOps: Why You Should Run What You Build – Enterprise DevOps: Why You Should Run What You Build
- Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service – Today, I want to explore the Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) architecture and what this architecture enables. Below is a diagram of the basic components of Amazon ECS:
- The 12-Factor App: A Java Developer’s Perspective #cloudnative – The Twelve-Factor App is a recent methodology (and/or a manifesto) for writing web applications that, hopefully, is getting quite popular. Although I don’t agree 100% with the recommendations, I'll quickly go through all 12 factors and discuss them from th
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