January | 2018 | Vinny Carpenter’s blog

[toread] Auto Layout Tutorial for Beginners with Xcode 9 and iOS 11 – What is Auto Layout? Auto Layout is a tool from Apple that enables you to create user interfaces that adapt to the different screen sizes of iPhone and iPad…
[toread] Robust Client-Side JavaScript – A Developer’s Guide · molily – ❦ Robust Client-Side JavaScript A Developer’s Guide The JavaScript programming language is an essential tool of web developers today. Websites ship more and…
[toread] OAuth 2.0 with Swift Tutorial – Update note : This tutorial has been updated to Swift 4 by Owen Brown. The original tutorial was written by Corinne Krych. Take a look at a few different OAuth…
[toread] React Native Tutorial: Building Android Apps with JavaScript – React Native Tutorial: Build native Android applications with JavaScript. In this React Native tutorial you’ll learn how to build native apps based on the…
[toread] 10 Lessons from 10 Years of AWS (part 1) – Adrian Hornsby – Medium – I recently presented a talk at the AWS Community Day in Bangalore . The tweet following the talk became my most popular tweet ever and I received quite a few…
Announcing Realm Cloud: Realm Platform as a Service Beta – Inside Amazon's Alexa Voice Services division, which develops hardware and software development kits for helping manufacturers build Alexa-enabled products
[toread] What is DynamoDB? – HOME GUIDE ABOUT SUBSCRIBE DynamoDB is a hosted NoSQL database offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers: reliable performance even as it scales; a…
[toread] How to design a RESTful API architecture from a human-language spec – Sofia (source: tpsdave ) This is the first in a three-post series that teaches RESTful API design. For more on working with RESTful API architecture, take a…
[toread] kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap – Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2018 Below you find a set of charts demonstrating the paths that you can take and the technologies that you would want to…
[toread] Getting started with microservices and Kubernetes – every microservices diagram ever It’s not a microservices platform if there’s only one service. And all those services need to be able to talk to each other,…

[toread] Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying – It was brought to my attention recently that there is a dearth of introductory educational material available about modern network load balancing and proxying.…
[toread] The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine – GARPENBERG, Sweden — From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march,…
[toread] Daring Fireball: Marzipan – Mark Gurman had an intriguing story at Bloomberg this week, but the problems start with the headline itself: “ Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps to…
[toread] Bootiful Development with Spring Boot and React – Matt Raible – To simplify development and deployment, you want everything in the same artifact, so you put your React app “inside” your Spring Boot app, right? But what if…
[toread] Working with AWS Lambda Functions in the AWS Cloud9 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) – AWS Cloud9 – AWS Documentation » AWS Cloud9 » User Guide » Working with AWS Lambda Functions in the AWS Cloud9 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Working with AWS…
[toread] Learn HTML/CSS And JavaScript By Creating Reddit Tutorial – Create a simple mockup of Reddit. Great way to practice HTML/CSS and JavaScript for Beginners. Thanks for watching! Please subscribe if you enjoyed this video,…
[toread] Packaging and serving your Java application with Docker | The Geeky Platypus Blog – Before we start… Before we start, we have to agree on one thing – Docker is super cool! Wait… I’ve said this before ! And although I’ve also said the next…
[toread] How to Create Round Buttons Using @IBDesignable on iOS 11 – Buttons in Xcode Storyboards require a bit of work to customize, especially if you want a solid background color and an easy to edit corner radius.…
[toread] How to Host a Website on S3 Without Getting Lost in the Sea – In this post you are going to learn more about Amazon Web Services (AWS) via a practical example, hosting a static website on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)…
Machine Learning 101 with Paige Bailey on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers – This week on the show Scott talks to Data Scientist and AI expert Paige Bailey. What's the difference between machine learning and deep learning? Do I need to learn R and Python to use machine learning models?
WinSW – A wrapper executable that can be used to host any executable as an Windows service, in a liberal license – WinSW is an executable binary, which can be used to wrap and manage a custom process as a Windows service. Once you download the installation package, you can rename winsw.exe to any name, e.g. myService.exe.
[toread] Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably – We recently built a distributed cron job scheduling system on top of Kubernetes , an exciting new platform for container orchestration. Kubernetes is very…
[toread] Building a spam classifier: PySpark+MLLib vs SageMaker+XGBoost – In this article, I will first show you how to build a spam classifier using Apache Spark , its Python API (aka PySpark) and a variety of Machine Learning…
[toread] Working Example of Using Java Message Service (JMS) with ActiveMQ – Amazon MQ – AWS Documentation » Amazon MQ » Developer Guide » How Amazon MQ Works » Working Example of Using Java Message Service (JMS) with ActiveMQ Working Example of…
[toread] Postman: Test your REST API – THE CURIOUS DEVELOPER – Postman is a very powerful application to have in your toolbox while developing REST interfaces. Postman lets you very easily run HTTP verbs such as GET, POST,…
[toread] The Amazon machine – When you look at large manufacturing companies, it becomes very clear that the machine that makes the machine is just as important as the machine itself.…
[toread] Learn to Program, by Chris Pine – Learn to Program, by Chris Pine Learn to Program A Place to Start for the Future Programmer I guess this all began back in 2002. I was thinking about teaching…
[toread] The Blockchain Economy: A beginner’s guide to institutional cryptoeconomics – Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts are from the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub , the world’s first social science research centre into the economics,…
[toread] Voyage into the World of Serverless Computing — with a 135-year-old Shipping Company – Voyage into the World of Serverless Computing — with a 135-year-old Shipping Company This is a guest post written by Dave Townsend, a Principal Software…
[toread] Maker vs. Manager: How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You – Consider the daily schedule of famed novelist Haruki Murakami. When he’s working on a novel, he starts his days at 4 am and writes for five or six continuous…
8 emerging trends in container orchestration – The research that follows dives into how Datadog’s customers use orchestrators, especially ECS and Kubernetes, to manage millions of containers on any given day.
[toread] Maximizing business value as a full stack developer means a beautiful frontend and a simple backend – When you’re an independent developer you are by default a full stack engineer; whether you want to be or not. Although my day job is in a full-time innovation…
[toread] Creating Serverless Functions with Python and AWS Lambda – A Primer The name "serverless function", as most people who've done any reading on the subject know, is a misnomer. A server is still involved in the whole…
[toread] AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer – "One person, in a literal garage, building a self-driving car." That happened in 2015. Now to put that fact in context, compare this to 2004, when DARPA…
Kata Containers – The speed of containers, the security of VMs – Kata Containers is a new open source project building extremely lightweight virtual machines that seamlessly plug into the containers ecosystem.
[toread] Season 1 – Breaking Smart is a technology analysis site. We aim to produce a binge-worthy collection of essays approximately once every 2 years. Season 1, comprising 20…
[toread] AWS Lambda vs. the World? – Should you use Lambda or should you use ?? I hear it can replace the world? Okay, obviously I'm being dramatic. But listen (well, I suppose read): This picture…
[toread] Deep Learning is Eating Software – Photo by John Watson When I had a drink with Andrej Karpathy a couple of weeks ago, we got to talking about where we thought machine learning was going over the…
[toread] Software 2.0 – I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they work here or there,…
HighLite: An SQLite ORM for Android with automatic database migrations built with annotation processing – HighLite is an SQLite library for Android that makes use of annotation processing to generate boilerplate for your SQLite operations.
[toread] Re:Invent 2017: AWS all about capturing data flows via AI, Alexa, database, IoT cloud services | ZDNet – The days of Amazon Web Services as an infrastructure provider are over as the company — and its customers — are going server less and moving up the stack to…
[toread] Thoughts after completing all 7 AWS Certifications – zugdud.io – Overall I had a great experience preparing for these, I enjoyed the journey and learned quite a bit. Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view…
[toread] Three Developer Tools I’m Thankful For | Okta Developer – I’ve been writing code since I was 12 years old. When I first got started, Iwas using an old MSDOS computer that was given to my family by a member of…
Welcome to AWS Architecture Monthly #kindle – From building a simple website to crafting an AI-based chat bot, technology choices and the best practices in how to apply them are constantly evolving. Our goal is to supply you with a broad selection of the best new tech content from AWS—from deep-dive tutorials to industry-trend articles.
IGListKit: A data-driven UICollectionView framework for building fast and flexible lists. – A data-driven UICollectionView framework for building fast and flexible lists.
Cartography: A declarative Auto Layout DSL for Swift – Using Cartography, you can set up your Auto Layout constraints in declarative code and without any stringly typing!
[toread] Welcome to the Era of the AI Coworker | Backchannel – Last fall, Google Translate rolled out a new-and-improved artificial intelligence translation engine that it claimed was, at times, “nearly indistinguishable”…
[toread] Run Containerized Microservices with Amazon EC2 Container Service and Application Load Balancer | Amazon Web Services – Run Containerized Microservices with Amazon EC2 Container Service and Application Load Balancer | AWS Compute Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS Compute…
[toread] 5 things you need to know about Java 9 – On September 21st, Java 9 arrived. More than three years after Java 8, a major Java release is finally in the hands of developers. The big question is: what do…
[toread] What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters – Unlike other currencies, Bitcoin is underwritten not by a government, but by a clever cryptographic scheme. For now, little can be bought with bitcoins, and the…
[toread] Transformative automation is coming. The impact is up to us – The Boston Globe – Transformative automation is coming. The impact is up to us – The Boston Globe SUBSCRIBE OPINION | L. RAFAEL REIF Transformative automation is coming. The…
[toread] The Senior Engineer’s Guide to Helping Others Make Decisions – One of the areas I often see senior engineers struggle with, is raising junior engineers to the next level. Often this is because we don’t give them the space…
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[toread] Tutorial: Break the Monolith with Amazon EC2 Container Service – Tutorial: Break the Monolith with Amazon EC2 Container Service Introduction Containerize the Monolith Deploy the Monolith Break the Monolith Deploy…

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