Tag: Miscellaneous
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Understanding the potential of Artificial Intelligence
Posted on December 21, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
An interesting interview with Daniel Hulme, CEO of the AI solutions startup Satalia, offers other chief executives a primer on the technology that will shape the future of work and business. Published on strategy-business.com by Euan Cameron and Deborah Unger.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous ai-and-machine-learning
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How to innovate in organisations that don't like failure
Posted on December 18, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
An article by James Gadsby Peet on topic of innovation in bigger organisation when change often happens slowly. In order to drive lasting and sustainable change, one needs to be curious about the people he is working with and explore their perspectives.
Tags miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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How to manage storage on Linux with LVM
Posted on December 13, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Seth Kenlon describing how to create, expand, and encrypt storage pools as needed with the Linux LVM utilities. There are lots of reasons to use it, especially in a data center or any place where storage requirements change over time.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd miscellaneous
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Tutorial: Route network traffic with a route table using the Azure portal
Posted on December 12, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Tutorial focusing on routing between subnets in Azure cloud. Azure routes traffic between all subnets within a virtual network, by default. You can create your own routes to override Azure's default routing. The ability to create custom routes is helpful if, for example, you want to route traffic between subnets through a network virtual appliance (NVA).
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd miscellaneous
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Understanding and using systemd
Posted on December 10, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Older but very informative article by Carla Schroder about systemd. systemd is controversial for several reasons: It's a replacement for something that a lot of Linux users don't think needs to be replaced.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd miscellaneous
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Combining Amazon Aurora, Lambda, and SQS to go beyond the native capabilities of MySQL
Posted on November 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
David Yahalom posted on redgate Hub about innovative combination of Amazon Aurora, serverless Lambda and Simple Que Service to strecth MySQL beyond native capabilities.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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The McKinsey report on design
Posted on November 24, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Blog post by Emily Esposito for InVision in which she asked: how can you confidently prove the business value of good design?. McKinsey & Company was trying to change that with their October 2018 report highlighting "the most extensive and rigorous research undertaken anywhere to study the design actions that leaders can make to unlock business value."
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous
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Single Responsibility Principle done right
Posted on November 20, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Ricardo Cardin thoughts on Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). Single Responsibility Principle is one of the 5 principles defined in SOLID principles. It should help with readability, lose coupling and cohesion of your code. Ricardo considers it to be one of the most powerful among these principles, yet one of the most misleading.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis miscellaneous
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Connecting multiple OpenShift SDNs with a network tunnel
Posted on November 16, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Very interesting post by Raffaele Spazzoli published on OpenShift blog on topic of pod communication in multiple clusters. Istio, the upstream project for Red Hat OpenShift Mesh, has an interesting feature that allows you to extend the service mesh across multiple OpenShift clusters.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous architecture-and-apis
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NGINX Unit supports TLS and JavaScript apps with Node.js
Posted on November 3, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Nick Shadrin of NGINX, Inc. wrote this article about TLS and Nodejs apps support in NGINX Unit. NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous backend-development frontend-and-mobile security-and-privacy
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Create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation
Posted on November 1, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Niklas Heidloff and Mark Sturdevant from IBM on hot Alexa skills topic. In it you will find how to create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation. Apart from Alexa you will also use Watson to discuss the weather, build a conversation, or choose one from a library. Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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Deploying Clojure applications to Google Cloud
Posted on October 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Guide by by Alexey Klochay, developer at CircleCI, focusing on continuously deploying Clojure apps to Google App Engine. At CircleCI they use Clojure heavily, but when he wanted to use it for his side projects he realized that cloud provider he was using required too much overhead for infrastructure. He started looking at alternatives that would give him CD right out of the box with as little configuration as possible.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous