Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Learn from how Netflix mastered 24-hour disc shipping
Posted on December 4, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length s
Heather McGough piece about how Netflix began as a shoestring startup bolstered by a group of passionate entrepreneurs with a crazy idea, and persistent Lean Startup experimentation ensured the company didn't fail.
Tags how-to cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech
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Make a Node.js Twitter Bot
Posted on December 2, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ryan wrote neat article about Node.js bot application. It uses the Twitter API in order to make requests for that Twitter Bot, such as tweeting, retweeting, liking, and more. Bots are a fun way to improve your coding skills through creativity.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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AWS Cloud9 – cloud developer environments
Posted on December 1, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Randall Hunt published article on how to run your Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in the cloud. One of the first things you learn when you start programming is that, just like any crafts person, your tools matter. A powerful editor and testing pipeline supercharge your productivity.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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Automated image builds with Jenkins, Packer, and Kubernetes
Posted on November 28, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Detailed article - tutorial from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) engineers about deploying faster. Creating custom images to boot your Google Compute Engine instances or Docker containers can reduce boot time and increase reliability. By pre-installing software into a custom image, you can also reduce your dependency on the availability of 3rd party repositories that are out of your control.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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How to host Hugo static website generator on AWS Lambda
Posted on November 25, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ilya Bezdelev wrote tutorial how to create a static website publishing platform hosted in the cloud using several AWS services. It will run static website generator Hugo on AWS Lambda, store files in AWS S3 and serve them from AWS CloudFront. This is older (2015) but still very good article.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd
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Writing event-driven serverless app plus local development
Posted on November 16, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Rupak Ganguly lengthy article on developing and event-driven serverless application. The application has a simple frontend using curl that calls into a couple of backend services: a users service and an email service. It relies on the serverless framework, and app is then deployed to AWS Lambda.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Service discovery for microservices with mu on AWS
Posted on October 31, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Casey Lee post about using stelligent.com tool called mu for microservices discovery. mu is a tool that makes it simple and cost-efficient for developers to use AWS as the platform for running their microservices.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Comprehensive and visual classification of wireless IoT protocols and network tech
Posted on October 23, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Nicolas Windpassinger detailed article with an overview of wireless IoT protocols and technologies (with some criteria to consider when making choices). Wireless IoT protocols, standards, solutions and technologies for connectivity and data communications come in many flavors for many potential IoT use cases.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure
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Network functions virtualization: all roads Lead to OPNFV
Posted on October 21, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In his blog post Amar Kapadia gives comprehensive description of the various open source NFV (Network Function Virtualization) projects integrated by OPNFV (Open Platform for NFV) and the carrier grade features contributed back to these upstream projects by the community.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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How to operate kubernetes network
Posted on October 20, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Julia Evans excellent blog post focusing on how to set up your Kubernetes network. She hasn't had seen much about how to operate the network and be confident that it would not create a lot of production incidents for you down the line. And that's why she dives into kubernetes networking in this post.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Working with AWS ECS to deploy docker containers
Posted on October 9, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Sriram Rajan article in which author looks at AWS ECS and how it can be used to deploy Docker containers. From a use-case perspective, ECS allows you to build a production-scale, auto-scaling and monitored platform for running these types of containers.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd
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Getting Started With Serverless PHP
Posted on September 3, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Rob Alen short article in which he takes a look at how to build a simple serverless PHP function. He is interested in Apache OpenWhisk and this article focuses on PHP runtime with IBM OpenWhisk.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure