Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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How autoscaling GitLab CI works on AWS Fargate
Posted on August 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Run your CI jobs as AWS Fargate tasks with GitLab Runner and the Fargate Driver. Autoscaling GitLab Runner is a unique value proposition for teams that run their self-managed build agents on cloud-hosted virtual machines. By Darren Eastman.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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How to create a custom Alexa skill using AWS Lambda and Serverless framework
Posted on August 22, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The world of artificial intelligence assistants is growing with such velocity that it doesn't surprise us anymore and it's about to be ubiquitous. Written by Maria Meheden.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis software-engineering leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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How to use Azure Durable Entities to see who's the strongest Avenger
Posted on August 19, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In the movies, Thor keeps saying that he "is the strongest Avenger". Some people say that it's actually Hulk, but I guess it's a matter of perspective. How can we find a solution to this riddle? By using Azure Durable Entities of course! By Davide Guida.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning
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Developing on Windows with WSL2
Posted on August 18, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Since a new build of Windows with WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) just got out, author took the chances and tried out a whole new developer experience: Doing web development in Windows! And by web development author means fullstack. By Sebastian Deutsch.
Tags how-to cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering
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What GoogleBot is doing to shopping carts... and why
Posted on August 14, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
GoogleBot can add products to shopping carts. But it's only happening to these specific merchants. By Roger Montti.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech frontend-and-mobile miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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Top 4 must-monitor API Gateway metrics
Posted on August 10, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Marc Andreessen famously said, "Software is eating the world." Dr. Steve Willmott subsequently retorted, "APIs are eating software." This is because API based architectures are enabling companies to get away from monolithic architectures and move to microservices. Innovative, disruptive companies like Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Square, and Slack all build their infrastructure and technology using APIs. By bluematador.com.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure testing-and-quality
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IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Posted on August 8, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Fully Homomorphic Encryptio (FHE) allows computation of still-encrypted data, without sharing the secrets. We're already accustomed to data being encrypted while at rest or in flight—FHE offers the possibility of doing computations on it as well, without ever actually decrypting it. By Jim Salter.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering security-and-privacy architecture-and-apis
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How to scale and secure Django application with Docker, Nginx, and Let's Encrypt
Posted on August 7, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In cloud-based environments, there are multiple ways to scale and secure a Django application. By scaling horizontally, and running several copies of your app, you can build a more fault-tolerant and highly-available system, while also increasing its throughput so that requests can be processed simultaneously. By Hanif Jetha.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile product-and-design security-and-privacy devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Data breaches could cost you hundreds of millions
Posted on August 6, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Mega breaches that compromise 50m records or more cost businesses $392m on average. By Anthony Spadafora.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy leadership-and-career software-engineering product-and-design
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Introduction to crun, a fast and low-memory footprint container runtime
Posted on August 4, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Check out crun, an OCI-compliant alternative to runc for Linux container runtime. By Dan Walsh (Red Hat), Valentin Rothberg (Red Hat), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat).
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Progressive Web Apps: Caching strategies
Posted on August 3, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Write up about doing some brushing up on progressive web apps and effort to understand some concepts better especially caching strategies. Progressive Web Apps(PWAs) are normal web applications which can feel like native mobile applications to the user. By Sholley O.
Tags frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development
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Three tips for coding with Alexa SMAPI SDK
Posted on July 31, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The SMAPI SDK makes it easier than ever to build Alexa skill management and reporting functions into web, mobile, and desktop apps using one of the supported languages (Node.js, Python, and Java). By Greg Bulmash.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design ai-and-machine-learning