Monthly Archives: November 2015

Links for November 24th through November 29th

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Vinny

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• Critical Thinking: A Necessary Skill in the Age of Spin – The ability to think critically is one skill separating innovators from followers. Critical thinking reduces the power of advertisers, the unscrupulous and the pretentious, and can neutralize the sway of an unsupported argument. This is a skill most studen
• How We Moved From Heroku To Containers With No Docker Experience – Now that we’ve containerized our Ruby application stack, we’re no longer bound to a specific cloud provider or PaaS solution. Since DCHQ integrates with 13 different cloud providers, we can easily deploy the same template on any Linux host running anywhere.
• Our take on native, shell and mobile web apps #mobile – we will try to map out some of the major differences between building web, shell and native apps.
• Sony employees on the hack, one year later. – What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee as the unprecedented cyberattack tore the company apart.
• One Googler’s War Against JavaScript Frameworks – ReadWrite – Using a framework is probably a good idea, but it’s an even better idea for developers to ensure they’re savvy about what the frameworks are trying to abstract.
• New Docker tool removes a big barrier for enterprises | CIO – Aiming to give companies operational control while maintaining developers' productivity, Docker Universal Control Plane runs on-premises and is designed to help deploy and manage Dockerized distributed applications in production on any infrastructure.
• JAWS: The Serverless Application Framework – Uses bleeding-edge AWS services to redefine how to build massively scalable apps! – JAWS: The Serverless Application Framework – Uses bleeding-edge AWS services to redefine how to build massively scalable (and cheap) apps!
• Dance to Calypso – WordPress reimagined #reactjs #nodejs – Today we’re announcing something brand new, a new approach to WordPress, and open sourcing the code behind it. The project, codenamed Calypso, is the culmination of more than 20 months of work
• Electron – Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies – With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker.
• Now Available – EC2 Dedicated Hosts #aws – Last month, I announced that we would soon be making EC2 Dedicated Hosts available. As I wrote at the time, this model allows you to control the mapping of EC2 instances to the underlying physical servers.

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Links for November 14th through November 23rd

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Vinny

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• Google unveils Android Studio 2.0 with Instant Run, faster Android emulator, and new GPU profiler – At the Android Dev Summit today, Google announced Android Studio 2.0, the second major version of its integrated development environment (IDE). Version 2.0 adds Instant Run, a faster Android emulator, and a new GPU profiler.
• Red Hat announces Ansible Tower, automation tool designed to help #DevOps manage and track their infrastructure – Red Hat wants to give DevOps teams more control and options in its latest release of Ansible Tower 2.4: the open-source automation tool designed to help DevOps manage and track their infrastructure. This is the first release of Ansible Tower since Red Hat
• Running Docker on AWS from the ground up – In this post, I’m going to introduce Docker deployment from the ground up, using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for hosting. I picked AWS because it’s incredibly popular, offers a free tier you can use to try this tutorial at no cost, and provides first-class Docker support via the EC2 Container Service (ECS)
• Emerging Best Practices in Swift, with Ash Furrow – In this talk at the GOTO Conference CPH 2015, Ash Furrow explores how to navigate the uncharted waters of Swift to discover and identify new best practices, with concrete examples such as unit testing and refactoring code.
• A distributed, tag-based pub-sub service for modern web applications and container-driven cloud. – Mist is a simple pub/sub based on the idea that messages are tagged. To subscribe the client simply constructs a list of tags that it is interested in, and all messages that are tagged with ALL the tags are sent to the client. A client may have multiple su
• The Netflix Tech Blog: Global Continuous Delivery with Spinnaker – Spinnaker is an open source multi-cloud Continuous Delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. Spinnaker is designed with pluggability in mind; the platform aims to make it easy to extend and enhance cloud deployment models.
• Aerotwist – The Cost of Frameworks – I recently delivered a talk at FFConf in Brighton, called "You should use <insert library / framework here>, it's the bestestest!". I wanted to do a write-up of the presentation's content here, hopefully so it can start a broader conversation that I think we need to have, mainly around the cost of modern frameworks on mobile devices.
• Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8 – This tutorial guides you step by step through all new language features. Backed by short and simple code samples you'll learn how to use default interface methods, lambda expressions, method references and repeatable annotations
• TensorFlow and monetizing intellectual property #google – Google is approaching machine learning from a position of strength: the company already has the most data and the most imposing infrastructure, and as noted open-souring TensorFlow accelerates the removal of the primary limitation to leveraging that advantage: the quality of the system itself.
• CoreOS Introduces Clair: Open Source Vulnerability Analysis for your Containers – Today we are open sourcing a new project called Clair, a tool to monitor the security of your containers. Clair is an API-driven analysis engine that inspects containers layer-by-layer for known security flaws

Links for October 28th through November 10th

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Vinny

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• Yelp Open Sources Its PaaS To Liberate You From Docker – Yelp, a quiet hero in open source, just released its internal PaaS ("platform as a service") to the open source community called, cleverly, PaaSTA
• 6 Ways To Avoid App Fatigue With Enterprise Apps – ReadWrite – The enterprise software market is poised to explode. In a recent report, Gartner projects app spending by companies to rise 7.5% this year to $149.9 billion, and in 2019, to more than $201 billion.
• Startup Playbook by Sam Altman #ycombinator #startup – Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies.
• Announcing Confidant: an open source secret management service from Lyft – I’m pleased to announce the initial open source release of Confidant, a secret management service for AWS users, built by engineers at Lyft.
• Redefine Java virtualization with Docker #docker – This installment of Open source Java projects introduces Java developers to Docker. I'll explain why it's important to developers, walk you through setting up and deploying a Java application to Docker, and show you how to integrate Docker into your build process.
• Real Time, Open Source Data Sync – Telepat – Telepat is an open-source backend stack, designed to deliver information updates to and from connected devices in real-time, while allowing for flexible deployment and simple scaling.
• Computer Science Field Guide – online interactive resource for students learning Computer Science – The "Computer Science Field Guide" is an online interactive resource for high school students learning about computer science, developed at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
• IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages – Great news from the JetBrains team: today we’re announcing the release of IntelliJ IDEA 15! As always, the new IntelliJ IDEA release brings a rich set of new features, better user interface, more built-in tools and integrations, and further improved codin
• Federal Election Commission data API – see how our govt. is bought #CampaignFinance – See how money is raised and spent in federal elections. Compare candidates’ financial data.
• Feeling like you’re an expert can make you closed-minded #psychology – the path of acquiring knowledge, and being wrong a lot along the way, may produce countervailing positive influences upon open-mindedness, something not examined in this study. This means we can conclude from this research a narrow but important point: tha
• Go extra lightweight, with Java microframeworks Spark, Ninja, and Play – In the world of Java web development, such a tool would be described as lightweight. Java microframeworks have recently emerged as the newest and leanest of frameworks yet. Rather than consolidate a massive feature set, as did Java EE, or even a lighter MVC framework like Spring, microframeworks put the programmer at the center of a coherent set of increasingly powerful, lightweight tools.