Monthly Archives: February 2018

Links for February 22nd through February 26th

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Vinny

• A practical look at basic AWS Networking with Terraform – A conventional AWS Networking Tutorial out there using Terraform doesn't go around the concepts of AWS Networking. Check out how to provision an AWS VPC with multiple subnets and configure security groups using Terraform.
• [toread] Why and how do we build a Multi-Region, Active-Active Architecture? – This is the second part of my series on building a multi-region, active-active architectures. In the previous post, we talked about the Quest for Availability…
• [toread] Building custom Docker image using Dockerfile – ITMithran – We can build the docker images using Dockerfile Dockerfile is a text file containing command-line instructions. syntax for ‘docker build’: # docker build…
• [toread] Java with Docker in VS Code – Java with Docker in VS Code This 15 minutes tutorial will walk you through the process of building a Docker image for running a Java application in Visual…
• [toread] Build Java Web Apps with VS Code – Build Java Web Apps with VS Code This 5 minutes tutorial shows you how to create a simple Java web application with Visual Studio Code. You'll learn how to run…
• [toread] The Beginner’s Guide to Spring Cloud – About InfoQ InfoQ Writers Contribute About C4Media Exclusive updates on: The Beginner’s Guide to Spring Cloud Recorded at: | by Ryan Baxter Ryan Baxter 0…
• The Practical Test Pyramid – This article explores what a well-rounded test portfolio should look like to be responsive, reliable and maintainable – regardless of whether you're building a microservices architecture, mobile apps or IoT ecosystems.
• [toread] Docker with Gradle: Dockerizing a Spring Boot application – The use of Docker has become widespread among companies big and small for a variety scenarios. Executing Docker from the command line for simple tasks is easy…
• [toread] Building a Multi-region Serverless Application with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services – This post written by: Magnus Bjorkman – Solutions Architect Many customers are looking to run their services at global scale, deploying their backend to…
• Micrometer Application Monitoring – Vendor-neutral application metrics facade – Micrometer provides a simple facade over the instrumentation clients for the most popular monitoring systems, allowing you to instrument your JVM-based application code without vendor lock-in. Think SLF4J, but for metrics.

Links for February 11th through February 20th

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Vinny

• [toread] Serverless Architectures – This article provides an in-depth look at serverless architecture and as a result is a long read. If you need a concise summary of what serverless is and its…
• [toread] HATEOAS – a simple explanation | E4developer – HATEOAS – Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, a name long enough to intimidate and confuse. Behind this complicated name we have a rather simple and…
• [toread] Azure for AWS Professionals – 03/24/2017 15 minutes to read Contributors In this article This article helps Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts understand the basics of Microsoft Azure…
• [toread] Setting up Database Servers for Development on Mac OS X Using Docker – If you are beginning your software development career and using Mac, and interested in using relational databases like MySQL/MariaDB , PostgreSQL , Microsoft…
• [toread] Static Websites On AWS S3 With Serverless Framework – While looking for a project to work on, I noticed there’s a very simple serverless pattern that I don’t see written about much: website hosting. We often…
• [toread] DevOps Bookmarks – Dead Man’s Snitch A cron job monitoring tool that keeps an eye on your crontab and notifies you when something doesn’t happen. linux free monitoring ruby
• [toread] Build a Microservices Architecture for Microbrews with Spring Boot | Okta Developer – Adopting a microservice architecture provides unique opportunities to add failover and resiliency to your systems, so your components can handle load spikes and…
• [toread] Sky-High Salaries Are the Weapons in the AI Talent War – If you want to command a multiyear, seven-figure salary, you used to have only four career options: chief executive officer, banker, celebrity entertainer, or…
• [toread] Decentralized Digital Identities and Blockchain – The Future as We See It. – Howdy folks, I hope you’ll find today’s post as interesting as I do. It’s a bit of brain candy and outlines an exciting vision for the future of digital…
• [toread] 9 Stoic Practices That Will Help You Thrive In The Madness Of Modernity – When Zeno of Cypress was shipwrecked and stranded on Athens, he wasn’t expecting any good to happen. Having lost everything and with not much else to do, Zeno…
• [toread] One Man’s Quest to Make Google’s Gadgets Great – It’s early in the morning on October 4, 2016, and in a few seconds, Rick Osterloh will present Google’s latest gadget portfolio to the world. He’s not even six…

Links for February 4th through February 10th

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Vinny

• Kubernetes, the Choice for Container Orchestrator – The software development ecosystem is settling on Kubernetes and related tools to solve the common problems.
• A beginner’s guide to Progressive Web Apps – A Progressive Web App is an app that can provide additional features based on the device support , providing offline capability, push notifications and almost native app look and speed, and local caching of resources.
• A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud apps offline! – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud apps offline
• Reactor in Action – using reactor-netty as a client, along with some naive solutions and how to improve on them. – Simon Baslé and Victor Grazi demo Reactor covering multi-batching, debugging, using reactor-netty as a client, along with some naive solutions and how to improve on them.
• Reactive emoji tracker with WebClient and Reactor: consuming SSE – In this article, we will learn how to consume infinite SSE (server-sent events) stream with Spring’s WebClient and Project Reactor.
• [toread] Ansible 101 – on a Cluster of Raspberry Pi 2s – YouTube – Go to the Legal Help page to request content changes for legal reasons.
• [toread] Twitter is now worth more than Snap – Adding to what’s already a Very Weird 2018 , Twitter now has a bigger market cap than Snapchat maker Snap after posting a thoroughly interesting earnings beat…
• [toread] What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death – Illustration by Jon Han My old iPad just turned five, and it’s starting to die. If it could wonder about such things, it might question this prognosis. Its…
• [toread] The Kubernetes Effect – Key Takeaways The way we should look at Kubernetes is more like a fundamental paradigm that has implications in multiple dimensions, rather than an API to…
• [toread] An Exhaustive Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Node.js Web Apps – Praveen Durairaj Application Engineer @HasuraHQ. Tech Enthusiast. Feb 7 TL;DR This post is filled with examples ranging from a simple Dockerfile to multistage…
• [toread] Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaurs – Actualize – Medium – Images from Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North CSS is strangely considered both one of the easiest and one of the hardest languages to learn as a web developer. It’s…
• Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure – A short guide on features of Python 3 for data scientists – Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure – A short guide on features of Python 3 for data scientists

Links for January 28th through February 4th

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Vinny

• [toread] The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought – A year ago, before the investor lawsuits and the federal investigations, before the mass resignations, and before the connotation of the word “Uber” shifted…
• [toread] How to Use DockerHub – In the previous articles, we learned the basics of Docker terminology , how to install Docker on desktop Linux, macOS, and Windows, and how to create container…
• [toread] How to Create a Docker Image – In the previous article , we learned about how to get started with Docker on Linux, macOS, and Windows. In this article, we will get a basic understanding of…
• [toread] How to Install Docker CE on Your Desktop – In the previous article, we learned some of the basic terminologies of the container world. That background information will come in handy when we run commands…
• [toread] Container Basics: Terms You Need to Know – Advertisement Swapnil Bhartiya December 28, 2017 containers-krissia-cruz.jpg Swapnil Bhartiya explains some of the basic terms used in the Docker container…
• [toread] Course Introduction | Introduction | DAT203.1x Courseware | edX – <div class="xblock xblock-student_view xblock-student_view-vertical" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-init="VerticalStudentView"…
• [toread] Azure Stream Analytics and Machine Learning integration – 07/06/2017 7 minutes to read Contributors In this article This article describes how to quickly set up a simple Azure Stream Analytics job that integrates Azure…
• [toread] First look at What’s New in Azure Machine Learning – YouTube – Go to the Legal Help page to request content changes for legal reasons.
• [toread] Application Security in a DevOps Environment – Lyft Engineering – It seems like every AppSec vendor pitch talks about how you can shift security “to the left” and they can help you transition to “DevSecOps”. When I hear these…
• Hacker101 is a free class for web security – Hacker101 is a free class for web security. Whether you're a programmer with an interest in bug bounties or a seasoned security professional, Hacker101 has something to teach you.