Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Everything you will ever need to know about the IoT ecosystem in one blog post
Posted on February 5, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Speaking about any ecosystem, we speak about a complex system of interconnected components and the environment in which they exist and with which they interact. We can use the term IoT ecosystem instead of IoT system because IoT devices have no value without the environment they exist in. By @sumatosoft.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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How to automate API testing with Azure Devops and Postman?
Posted on February 4, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I have been using Postman for a long time to test API requests from my local machine. I started to investigate during one project what kind of automated integration test possibilities could Postman offer. Actually it offered very nice features what I haven't used before. Best finding was possibility to integrate everything very easily to Azure DevOps pipelines. By Kalle Marjokorpi.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis software-engineering
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Enabling transparent data encryption for Microsoft SQL with Vault
Posted on February 3, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Learn how HashiCorp Vault can help secure data in Microsoft SQL Server using a defense-in-depth encryption strategy. By Narayan Iyengar.
Tags data-and-analytics security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure
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Platform Engineering: Building AWS landing zone with Pulumi
Posted on January 30, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog, I will cover some key concepts and architecture of Pulumi. We will be building and provisioning the AWS landing zone. By A B Vijay Kumar.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Controlling concurrency in distributed systems using AWS Step Functions
Posted on January 29, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Managing concurrency in distributed systems can be challenging. In a monolithic application, you use familiar concepts such as in-memory locks to avoid overloading a database or prevent overwriting a customer record by two users at the same time. With a distributed system, where your application is dispersed across computing environments without shared memory, these methods are no longer available to you. By James Beswick.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design devops-and-ci-cd
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How using same programming language for IaC made AWS Step Function testable
Posted on January 28, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
AWS Step Functions are difficult to test. I found an approach to testing that helped in one particular scenario. It relies on using the same programming language for both testing and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). I hope the idea helps others tame their Step Functions into a testable submission. By Graham Allan.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis testing-and-quality
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Cloud trends show customers increasing investments in hybrid and multicloud
Posted on January 27, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Across every industry and geography, companies are working hard to keep pace with evolving business needs and build on their existing digital investments. In my role leading the product team for the core of Azure, I spend a lot of time with customers learning what they need to be successful as they integrate cloud technologies into their business strategy to digitally transform. By Erin Chapple - Corporate Vice President, Azure Core PM & Design.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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A primer on WebAssembly
Posted on January 26, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
To understand why there was a requirement for WebAssembly, let's take a not-so-quick stroll down memory lane. And why it hasn't replaced Javascript yet. By Divya Mohan.
Tags frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Securing IoT with Quantum Cryptography
Posted on January 25, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length short
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing technology that continues to gain traction year after year. On the one hand, it can be helpful, but on the other hand, it carries many security threats. These threats include scalable remote attacks, side-channel attacks on cryptography, DDoS attacks, data breaches, malware, and others. By Roland Atoui.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career security-and-privacy business-and-emerging-tech
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Best practices for using AWS StepFunctions
Posted on January 24, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this post you will learn some of the best patterns/tricks author has learned during my time creating Step Functions workflows. By Lukas Fruntke.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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How Kubernetes creates and runs containers: An illustrated guide
Posted on January 18, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Understanding how Kubernetes handles containers gives you greater flexibility to create custom configurations for specific needs. Kubernetes enables you to do a lot of productive work without having to understand a lot about the underlying details. By Bob Reselman.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career how-to
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How we built a VS Code extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript
Posted on January 14, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
We'll talk through our design decisions in building the extension, and along the way we'll touch on the Language Server Protocol and, more generally, how an IDE extension works. By osohq.com.
Tags product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering