May | 2016 | Vinny Carpenter’s blog

Git Workflows – surveying the most common Git workflows for enterprise teams – The array of possible workflows can make it hard to know where to begin when implementing Git in the workplace. This page provides a starting point by surveying the most common Git workflows for enterprise teams.
Deco – IDE for building React Native apps is now free and open source – Deco is an IDE for React Native. It's an all-in-one solution for writing React Native apps that you can download and use without any environment setup. Deco improves the React Native development workflow by focusing on component reuse and enabling you to edit your UI in real time.
mailgen – Generates clean, responsive HTML e-mails for sending transactional mail. #npm – Generates clean, responsive HTML e-mails for sending transactional mail.
Red Hat Debuts Ansible 2.1, with Network Automation, Containers, Microsoft Windows, and Azure – Newest release of open source IT automation framework brings 40 newly integrated modules for DevOps teams and IT administrators
Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native – A free and open-source framework to kickstart your mobile product development for Android and iOS, powered by React Native.
Client Certificates at Netflix #aws #security – Yesterday at OSCON Russell Lewis, a senior software engineer at Netflix gave a talk entitled How Netflix Gives All Its Engineers SSH Access to Instances Running In Production. The talk introduced a system called BLESS, which issues short-term SSH client certificates based on AWS IAM roles.
Adobe launches Spark ‘visual storytelling’ web app, updates companion iOS apps – Adobe's Spark family provides browser-based and mobile tools that allow anyone to create engaging visual content for deployment on social platforms.
Electron 1.0 is out – build cross platform desktop apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – Electron 1.0 represents a major milestone in API stability and maturity
How I fell in love with a programming language — Signal v. Noise – After a month with Kotlin, I finally understand what the hell DHH has been saying about Ruby all these years
Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming – There is much to be discovered from tracking just one line item on Apple's income statement. R&D expense tells me that Apple is planning its most significant pivot yet.

Architecting a Serverless Web Application in AWS | Fugue – The Serverless framework gave us the push we needed. Our goal? To power an application useful to a business function via an API built with Lambda and API Gateway, harming no EC2 instances in the proces
The Netflix Stack, using Spring Boot-Part 1: Eureka – In this series of blogposts – The Netflix stack, using Spring Boot – I'll be going over some of the libraries which Netflix has created and how to incorporate them in your spring applications. As always, it'll be more of a hands-on experience, as this blogpost will basically just be an overview of what you can find in the accompanying repository
The Netflix Stack, Using Spring Boot – Part 3: Feign – In this series of blogposts – The Netflix stack, using Spring Boot – I’ll be going over some of the libraries which Netflix has created and how to incorporate them in your spring application
Teaching Swift to Non-Developers, with Jeff Bergier @jeffburg – Over the past 2 years, Jeff has been designing curriculum and teaching iOS development to students with little to no programming experience. The curriculum is designed for them to be able to walk out of classes with a useful app in less than 5 hours of teaching time.
Automated Workflow & Task Automation – Microsoft’s version of IFTTT @dgreller – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more.
CoreOS and Prometheus: Building monitoring for the next generation of cluster infrastructure – Prometheus’s ability to monitor a massive number of targets without consuming a massive amount of resources quickly made it an integral part of the toolkit of organizations shifting to cloud native infrastructure.
Google Reveals its Cloud Computing Vision – At Google Cloud Platform Next – the company's annual conference for cloud-computing professionals – the Big G revealed its vision for cloud computing: to leverage the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) so users can “teach” computers.
Lessons from Building a Node App in Docker – Here are some tips and tricks that I learned the hard way when developing and deploying web applications written for node.js using Docker. In this tutorial article, we’ll set up the socket.io chat example in docker, from scratch to production-ready, so hopefully you can learn these lessons the easy way
Microserver is a Java 8 native, zero configuration, standards based, battle hardened library to run Java Rest Microservices via a standard Java main class. Supporting pure Microservice or Micro-monolith styles. – Microserver is a Java 8 native, zero configuration, standards based, battle hardened library to run Java Rest Microservices via a standard Java main class. Supporting pure Microservice or Micro-monolith styles.
Microsoft takes the long view on smartphone reboot – At the company’s recent developers trade show, the silence hovering over Microsoft’s smartphone plans was deafening, one analyst said. Now there appears to be another corporate reboot in how it deals with that technology.
React Native: A year in review – Here is a look back at how React Native has grown and evolved since we open-sourced it a year ago, some challenges we faced along the way, and what we expect as we look ahead to the future.
CopperheadOS – A hardened open-source operating system based on Android – A hardened open-source operating system based on Android

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