October 2017 – Vinny Carpenter’s blog

[toread] Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety? – T he disintegration of Jake’s life took him by surprise. It happened early in his junior year of high school, while he was taking three Advanced Placement…
[toread] You Should Learn Regex – Regular expressions (regex): one of the most powerful, widely applicable, and sometimes intimidating techniques in software engineering. From validating email…
AWS SAM Local ? is a CLI tool for local development and testing of Serverless applications – sam is the AWS CLI tool for managing Serverless applications written with AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). SAM Local can be used to test functions locally, start a local API Gateway from a SAM template, validate a SAM template, and generate sample payloads for various event sources
Awless tutorial: Try a smarter CLI for AWS – A guided tour of the Awless CLI for Amazon Web Services, an alternative to the AWS CLI with simpler syntax, smart defaults, and powerful templates
In this 6 min screencast, a Java class with a single method is deployed to fnproject.io using the Java Function Developer Kit (FDK) – In this 6 min screencast, a Java class with a single method is deployed to fnproject.io using the Java Function Developer Kit (FDK) / Java runtime
AWS Database Migration Service Adds Amazon S3 and Azure SQL Database as Sources – AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) has added Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Azure SQL Database as migration sources.
[toread] Understanding SOLID Principles: Dependency Inversion – This is the 1st part of the series of understanding SOLID Principles where we explore what is Dependency Inversion and why it helps deliver software that is…
Introducing Cloud Firestore: Our New Document Database for Apps – Today we're excited to launch Cloud Firestore, a fully-managed NoSQL document database for mobile and web app development. It's designed to easily store and sync app data at global scale, and it's now available in beta.
[toread] pfSense: A Guide to NAT, Firewall Rules and some Networking 101 – Muffin’s Lab – How to pfSense. So, you’ve decided to ditch that POS ISP provided router, or just literally anything marketed towards consumers and have installed pfSense, so..…
[toread] Amazon EBS Volume Performance on Linux Instances – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud – AWS Documentation » Amazon EC2 » User Guide for Linux Instances » Storage » Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) » Amazon EBS Volume Performance on Linux…

[toread] An Inside Look at Deploying Kubernetes on AWS – uptime 99 – Medium – How to Create Kubernetes Clusters on AWS with kops Written By Eric Hole In the last kops post, kops 101 , I covered what kops is and why it’s the right choice…
Cheatsheet for the JavaScript knowledge you will frequently encounter in modern projects. – This document is a cheatsheet for JavaScript you will frequently encounter in modern projects and most contemporary sample code.
Building Evolutionary Architectures – Support constant change – The first principle of evolutionary architecture is to enable incremental change in an architecture over time. This practical guide gives you everything you need to know to get started.
Mind the 75GB limit on AWS Lambda deployment packages – Lambda has a regional limit of 75GB for ALL of your deployment packages, whilst this might sound a lot at first, it is actually quite easy to reach when deployment is frictionless and you’re deploying many times a day.
[toread] How to deploy a NodeJS AWS Lambda function with Terraform – Amazon AWS' Lambdas are incredibly powerful, mainly due to their stateless nature and ability to scale horizontally almost infinitely. But once you have written…
[toread] Simplified User Management for AWS – awless – Medium – Managing users that access and administrate your Amazon Web Services resources can rapidly become a disorganized and tedious process that includes a variety of…
[toread] Python and AWS Lambda – A match made in heaven – Python Data – In recent months, I’ve begun moving some of my analytics functions to the cloud. Specifically, I’ve been moving them many of my python scripts and API’s to AWS’…
[toread] Pre-configured Amazon AWS deep learning AMI with Python – PyImageSearch – LinkedIn 0 Image credit The Ubuntu VirtualBox virtual machine that comes with my book, Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python , includes all the…
[toread] How to automate creating high end virtual machines on AWS for data science projects – This is a log of my findings while trying to automate the creation of Virtual Machines on Amazon Web Services. Last year I started my MSc in Data Science.…
[toread] Swift 4.0 Released! – September 19, 2017 Ted Kremenek Swift 4 is now officially released! Swift 4 builds on the strengths of Swift 3, delivering greater robustness and stability,…

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