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		<title>Links for April 23rd through June 24th</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] The Future of Web Development &#8211; Hacker Noon &#8211; Spoiler: writing code is going to get a lot easier Eden Ella Jun 24 Prophesizing is no easy task &#8212; when looking at social phenomena (and web development is a&#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2019/07/02/links-for-april-23rd-through-june-24th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-web-development-8da936743d5c">[toread] The Future of Web Development &ndash; Hacker Noon</a> &#8211; Spoiler: writing code is going to get a lot easier Eden Ella Jun 24 Prophesizing is no easy task &mdash; when looking at social phenomena (and web development is a&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d">[toread] Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful</a> &#8211; Gabriel Weinberg Jul 5, 2016 2019 UPDATE: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models . You can&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/four-bad-ways-use-rpa">[toread] Four bad ways to use RPA</a> &#8211; Software Robots to the Rescue! Or Not?! Automation is often regarded as a mixed blessing. To some it&rsquo;s the herald of impending job cuts, for others it opens up&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.juliobiason.net/thoughts/things-i-learnt-the-hard-way/">[toread] Julio Biason .Net 4.0 &#8211; Things I Learnt The Hard Way (in 30 Years of Software Development)</a> &#8211; This is a cynical, clinical collection of things I learnt in 30 years workingwith software development. Again, some things are really cynical, others are long&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="http://principlesofchaos.org/">[toread] Principles of Chaos Engineering</a> &#8211; PRINCIPLES OF CHAOS ENGINEERING Last Update: 2018 May Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://stanislas.io/2018/07/12/preparation-guide-for-isc2-certified-cloud-security-professional-ccsp-certification/">[toread] Preparation Guide for ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Certification</a> &#8211; I just get my Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Certification and it is time now to share my preparation notes for those who are interested to pass&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://khalilstemmler.com/articles/solid-principles/solid-typescript/">[toread] SOLID Principles: The Software Developer&#8217;s Framework to Robust &amp; Maintainable Code [with Examples]</a> &#8211; From the upcoming free ebook, SOLID &#8211; An introduction to software architecture and design principles with Node.js and TypeScript. Writing code can be like&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-open-data-analytics-notebooks">[toread] aws-samples/aws-open-data-analytics-notebooks</a> &#8211; AWS Open Data Analytics Notebooks AWS analytics, AI, and data science service abstractions API built in Amazon SageMaker notebooks This repository contains a&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://doist.com/blog/complete-guide-to-deep-work/">[toread] The Complete Guide to Deep Work (including a step-by-step checklist)</a> &#8211; Illustration by @margaridamouta Let&rsquo;s get right to the point: bouncing between your inbox, pointless meetings, and group chat notifications is no way to get&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/graphql-vs-rest/">[toread] GraphQL vs REST: putting REST to rest</a> &#8211; When you need to build an API, your mind will likely jump to REST , the de facto standard for API creation. However, this is about to change with GraphQL , as&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://thenewstack.io/why-serverless-is-the-uber-of-infrastructure/">[toread] Why Serverless Is the Uber of Infrastructure &#8211; The New Stack</a> &#8211; NS1 sponsored this post. Jonathan Sullivan Jonathan has more than a decade of experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining mission-critical, distributed&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psIgCzFOqj8">[toread] GOTO 2018 &bull; Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices &bull; Sascha M&ouml;llering &#8211; YouTube</a> &#8211; Go to the Legal Help page to request content changes for legal reasons.</li>
<li><a href="https://intelligent-speaker.com/">Intelligent Speaker: text to speech browser extension, synced with podcast feed</a> &#8211; Intelligent Speaker is a new way of being efficient.  Text to speech browser extension runs on leading tts engine and has useful features to make you productive</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/banking-matters/scanning-the-fintech-landscape">[toread] Scanning the fintech landscape: 10 disruptive models</a> &#8211; May 8, 2019 The range of models is breathtaking, and, drawing from my recent experience as a fintech entrepreneur, investor, and now advisor, I wanted to try&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.twilio.com/blog/a-http-headers-for-the-responsible-developer">[toread] HTTP headers for the responsible developer</a> &#8211; This article is a written version of the talk &ldquo;HTTP headers for the responsible developer&rdquo;. You can check the slides or the recording . Being online is the&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7">[toread] Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers</a> &#8211; Illustrations by Jordan Speer Community leaders say AWS increasingly poses an existential threat Andrew Leonard Apr 24 On March 11, a Vice President at Amazon&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/dont-just-do-it-think-it-too-on-learning-with-gilbert-ryle">[toread] Don&rsquo;t just do it, think it too: on learning with Gilbert Ryle &ndash; Josh Habgood-Coote | Aeon Essays</a> &#8211; Yuki Kawauchi is a remarkable athlete. The winner of the 2018 Boston marathon &ndash; known in Japan as the &lsquo;citizen runner&rsquo; &ndash; worked full-time at a school until&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/best-practices-for-aws-lambda-container-reuse-6ec45c74b67e">[toread] Best Practices for AWS Lambda Container Reuse</a> &#8211; Optimizing Warm Starts When Connecting AWS Lambda to Other Services Angela Razzell Apr 5 AWS Lambda provides high scalability due to being serverless and&hellip;</li>
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		<title>Links for March 20th through April 21st</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] Bohemian Wrapsody &#8211; Dmytro Danylyk Apr 21 &#8220;Wrapping third-party APIs is a best practice.&#8221; &#8212; Robert C. Martin Intro One of my colleagues told me that wrapping third-party libraries&#8230; [toread] The Great Migration: From SQL Server to AWS Aurora &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2019/04/22/links-for-march-20th-through-april-21st/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="https://medium.com/@dmytrodanylyk/bohemian-wrapsody-86a5ac3c910a">[toread] Bohemian Wrapsody</a> &#8211; Dmytro Danylyk Apr 21 &ldquo;Wrapping third-party APIs is a best practice.&rdquo; &mdash; Robert C. Martin Intro One of my colleagues told me that wrapping third-party libraries&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://dev.to/helenanders26/the-great-migration-from-sql-server-to-aws-aurora-4pfo">[toread] The Great Migration: From SQL Server to AWS Aurora</a> &#8211; Over the last nine months, I&#039;ve been leading a project to migrate 60 Data Analyst users and all their objects from a legacy SQL Server database to a fit for&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://itnext.io/run-your-containers-on-aws-fargate-c2d4f6a47fda">[toread] Run your containers on AWS Fargate &ndash; ITNEXT</a> &#8211; Glenn Wedin Apr 19 Are you like me and want your containers up and running fast and simple and with as little configuration as possible? Then AWS Fargate might&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.coinbase.com/introducing-fenrir-how-coinbase-is-scaling-serverless-applications-9ba6e3a74761">[toread] Introducing Fenrir: How Coinbase is Scaling Serverless Applications</a> &#8211; Graham Jenson Apr 11 Serverless, specifically AWS Lambda, is awesome. It scales from 0 to near infinity, it costs next to nothing, and it integrates with almost&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://alexdebrie.com/posts/api-gateway-elements/">[toread] A Detailed Overview of AWS API Gateway</a> &#8211; AWS API Gateway is an awesome service to use as an HTTP frontend. You can use it for building serverless applications , for integrating with legacy&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="http://ewanvalentine.io/how-clean-architecture-solved-so-many-of-our-serverless-problems/">[toread] How clean-architecture solved so many of our Serverless problems</a> &#8211; Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. For months I deliberated and considered our problems running our serverless microservices locally. They&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psIgCzFOqj8&amp;list=PLEx5khR4g7PJW7u0GKxRPIQddtu69boT3">[toread] GOTO 2018 &bull; Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices &bull; Sascha M&ouml;llering</a> &#8211; This presentation was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2018. #gotocon #gotober <a href="http://gotober.com" rel="nofollow">http://gotober.com</a> Sascha M&ouml;llering &#8211; Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@eduardoromero/serverless-architectural-patterns-261d8743020">[toread] Serverless Architectural Patterns</a> &#8211; Eduardo Romero Mar 4 Black and white clouds, atmosphere &mdash; Photo by Bryan Minear We&rsquo;re building more and more complex platforms, at the same time that we are&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://triggermesh.com/">[toread] Multicloud Serverless Management Platform | TriggerMesh</a> &#8211; We Manage Serverless TriggerMesh is a multicloud serverless management platform built on Kubernetes and Knative . Our library of event triggers enables hybrid&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/devopslinks/modules-tf-convert-visual-aws-diagram-into-terraform-configurations-e61fb0574b10">[toread] modules.tf &mdash; Convert visual AWS diagram into Terraform configuration</a> &#8211; Anton Babenko Nov 19, 2018 I am excited to announce the public-release of modules.tf , which allows a conversion from visual AWS diagrams using cloudcraft.co to&hellip;</li>
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		<title>Links for December 19th through March 20th</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Overview-AWS-Lambda-Security.pdf &#8211; [toread] My favorite free courses to learn data structures and algorithms in depth &#8211; javinpaul Feb 26 Data structures and algorithms are some of the most essential topics for programmers, both to get a job and to &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2019/03/21/links-for-december-19th-through-march-20th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Overview-AWS-Lambda-Security.pdf">[toread] https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Overview-AWS-Lambda-Security.pdf</a> &#8211; </li>
<li><a href="https://medium.freecodecamp.org/these-are-the-best-free-courses-to-learn-data-structures-and-algorithms-in-depth-4d52f0d6b35a">[toread] My favorite free courses to learn data structures and algorithms in depth</a> &#8211; javinpaul Feb 26 Data structures and algorithms are some of the most essential topics for programmers, both to get a job and to do well on a job. Good knowledge&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://stratechery.com/2019/where-warrens-wrong/">[toread] Where Warren&rsquo;s Wrong</a> &#8211; Senator Elizabeth Warren deserves credit: I have been writing about antitrust , particularly in the context of Aggregation Theory , for years, but the most&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@serverlessguru/serverless-faq-4656f059e7e6">[toread] Serverless FAQ</a> &#8211; Some common questions answered. Serverless Guru Mar 8 <a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/road-highway-lights-auto-night-4032928/" rel="nofollow">https://pixabay.com/photos/road-highway-lights-auto-night-4032928/</a> In this article, we dive into some&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@serverlessguru/best-practices-for-serverless-development-d13061b3593e">[toread] Best Practices for Serverless Development</a> &#8211; Let&rsquo;s take a look at some Serverless best practices. Serverless Guru Mar 6 <a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/berlin-holocaust-monument-memorial-3710509/" rel="nofollow">https://pixabay.com/photos/berlin-holocaust-monument-memorial-3710509/</a> In this&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/the-apps-team/build-a-serverless-data-pipeline-with-aws-s3-lamba-and-dynamodb-5ecb8c3ed23e">[toread] Build a serverless data pipeline with AWS S3 Lamba and DynamoDB</a> &#8211; Yi Ai Mar 5 AWS Lambda plus Layers is one of the best solutions for managing a data pipeline and for implementing a serverless architecture. This post shows how&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@sasirekhachinthas/deploy-your-existing-nodejs-apis-in-serverless-aws-lambda-5e6ddb347805">[toread] Deploy your existing Nodejs APIs in serverless &mdash; AWS Lambda</a> &#8211; Sasi Rekha Mar 9 Photo by Pankaj Patel on Unsplash When i first tried to deploy my existing nodejs rest APIs in Serverless it took quite long time to figure out&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/scottknaster/status/1103446815507009536">[toread] Scott Knaster on Twitter</a> &#8211; Scott Knaster @ scottknaster pic.twitter.com/CJQdqIFWvw Twitter by: Scott Knaster @scottknaster Kevin Marks @ kevinmarks Phil Shiller? Scott Knaster @&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://gravitational.com/blog/microservices-containers-kubernetes/">[toread] Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in 10 minutes</a> &#8211; Mar 4, 2019 by Ev Kontsevoy What is a Microservice? What is a microservice? Should you be using microservices? How are microservices related to containers and&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.keithrozario.com/2019/03/using-terraform-and-serverless-framework.html">[toread] Using Terraform and Serverless Framework</a> &#8211; Image from wikicommons . The Serverless framework (SF) is a fantastic tool for testing and deploying lambda functions, but it&rsquo;s reliance on cloudformation makes&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-3.pdf">[toread] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-3.pdf</a> &#8211; </li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/crowdbotics/a-node-js-serverless-iot-fintech-project-surely-its-not-possible-55a1aaa380da">[toread] Building A Serverless IoT FinTech App with AWS and NodeJS</a> &#8211; Building an AWS native, Node.js, serverless, event-driven system to back up an IOT device capable of real time messaging and events. Joshua Toth Feb 10 In&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.timsommer.be/famous-laws-of-software-development/">[toread] Famous laws of Software development</a> &#8211; Like any other field, the world of Software Development has some interesting and famous rules, principles and laws. Programmers, developers, managers and&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-approach-any-algorithm-interview-without-panicking-b6d7ae5c050">[toread] How To Approach Any Algorithm Interview Without Panicking</a> &#8211; Sun-Li Beatteay Jan 30 Let&rsquo;s be honest, algorithm problems are still very much a part of the job search. While there&rsquo;s an ever-expanding list of companies that&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@dabit3/serverless-functions-in-depth-507439b4be88">[toread] Serverless Functions in Depth &ndash; Nader Dabit &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; Nader Dabit Feb 22 A deep-dive on how to build, test, deploy, update, &amp; delete serverless functions with AWS Amplify . In this tutorial, you&rsquo;ll learn the&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.arria.com/what-is-nlg-and-how-does-it-relate-to-nlp-and-other-forms-of-ai">[toread] What is NLG, and how does it relate to NLP and other forms of AI?</a> &#8211; NLG is a type of Natural Language Processing (NLP)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/strategys-strategist-an-interview-with-richard-rumelt">[toread] Strategy&rsquo;s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt</a> &#8211; A giant in the field of strategy ruminates on strategic planning, diversification and focus, and the role of the CEO. As a mountaineer Richard Rumelt, a&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://filippobuletto.github.io/solid-java/">[toread] SOLID Java</a> &#8211; On this page SOLID Java Single Responsibility Principle SRP Example SRP Code smells SRP Goodies Open/closed Principle OCP Example OCP Code smells OCP Goodies&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://hashnode.com/post/building-a-todo-app-using-reactjs-and-serverless-cjrwd1wio00gur1s2p4zhonmw">[toread] Building a Todo app using ReactJS and Serverless &#8211; Hashnode</a> &#8211; Lately, I have been experimenting a lot with AWS Lambda and other serverless platforms. To teach myself the concept of serverless I built a simple todo app&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://itnext.io/aws-lambda-simplified-with-serverless-framework-8fbc01418422">[toread] AWS Lambda Simplified With Serverless Framework &ndash; ITNEXT</a> &#8211; If you have used AWS Lambda to create an API using API Gateway before, then you must know the pain of creating and managing them with frequent updates. This was&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/01/11/aws-aurora-mysql-ha-dr-and-durability-explained-in-simple-terms/">[toread] AWS Aurora MySQL &ndash; HA, DR, and Durability Explained in Simple Terms</a> &#8211; PREVIOUS POST NEXT POST It&rsquo;s a few weeks after AWS re:Invent 2018 and my head is still spinning from all of the information released at this year&rsquo;s conference.&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/a-berkeley-view-on-serverless-computing/">[toread] Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing &#8211; RISE Lab</a> &#8211; David Patterson and Ion Stoica The publication of &ldquo; Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing &rdquo; on February 10, 2009 cleared up the considerable&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://rehn.me/posts/pki-for-busy-people.html">[toread] PKI for busy people</a> &#8211; PKI for busy people Chris Rehn Home RSS Public-key infrastructure (PKI) is an umbrella term for everything that has to do with certificate and key management.&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html">[toread] On Being A Principal Engineer</a> &#8211; 6 min read The manager&rsquo;s path I bought and read The Manager&rsquo;s Path by the awesome Camille Fournier when it first came out. At the time, I was a senior Database&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-The-Right-Compute/AI-for-Dummies-A-simple-guide-to-understanding-artificial/ba-p/7033546">[toread] AI for Dummies: A simple guide to understanding artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning</a> &#8211; AI doesn&#039;t have to be daunting. This guide from HPE explains everything you need to know to fuel your business with cutting-edge cognitive technologies. You may&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="http://vas3k.ru/blog/machine_learning/">[toread] Machine Learning for Everyone</a> &#8211; Why do we want machines to learn? This is Billy. Billy wants to buy a car. He tries to calculate how much he needs to save monthly for that. He went over dozens&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://daviseford.com/blog/2018/12/21/aws-advanced-networking-specialty-exam-tips.html">[toread] AWS Advanced Networking Specialty Exam Tips and Tricks</a> &#8211; 21 Dec 2018 If you&rsquo;re planning on taking the AWS Advanced Networking Specialty exam, I&rsquo;ve compiled a quick list of tips that you may want to remember headed&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@nageshsinghchauhan/apache-hbase-headstart-for-a-beginner-1cae91614401">[toread] Apache HBase : Headstart for a beginner &ndash; Nagesh Singh Chauhan &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; Nagesh Singh Chauhan Jan 23 If you&rsquo;re running a web site with a large number of customers, you&rsquo;ve experienced the dreaded Big Data Performance Paradox. Just&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://thesystemsthinker.com/a-lifetime-of-systems-thinking/">[toread] A Lifetime of Systems Thinking &#8211; The Systems Thinker</a> &#8211; W hen one reaches 80, one is considered to be ripe and ready for picking. Picking usually consists of the pickers asking the pickee to reflect back on the&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.grayscott.com/seriouswonder-//ray-kurzweil-ai-is-still-on-course-to-outpace-human-intelligence">[toread] Ray Kurzweil: &#8216;AI is Still on Course to Outpace Human Intelligence&#8217;</a> &#8211; Ray Kurzweil: &#039;AI is Still on Course to Outpace Human Intelligence&#039; by B.J. Murphy The Singularity is near(er)! At least, that&rsquo;s what the famous inventor and&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/wardleymaps/a-smorgasbord-of-the-slightly-useful-2498a1163dd6">[toread] A smorgasbord of the slightly useful &ndash; wardleymaps &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; Chapter 11 swardley Jan 11, 2017 &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s one I made earlier&rdquo; is the staple diet of TV programmes when faced with the possibility that something might go wrong.&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://grahamlyons.com/article/machine-learning-for-the-lazy-beginner">[toread] Graham Lyons | Machine Learning for the Lazy Beginner</a> &#8211; This article was prompted by a tweet I saw which asked for a walkthrough on training a machine learning service to recognise new members of 3 different data&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://rachelcarmena.github.io/2018/12/12/how-to-teach-git.html">[toread] How to teach Git</a> &#8211; The problem I found Some of my professional experiences have involved participating in cross-functional areas, so I knew all my colleagues&rsquo; way of working. I&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://grahamlyons.com/article/a-zero-fricton-terraform-primer">[toread] Graham Lyons | A Zero-Fricton Terraform Primer</a> &#8211; What is Terraform and why should you care? How can you learn about it without having to provision real stuff in your Amazon account? Infrastructure as Code Back&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/google-developer-experts/building-your-next-serverless-application-the-complete-guide-98e48f85bd3c">[toread] Building Your Next Serverless Application: The Complete Guide.</a> &#8211; Wassim Chegham Dec 27, 2017 The overall architecture of our serverless application I bet you&rsquo;ve already heard of Serverless architectures: The next evolution of&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.bitsrc.io/serverless-function-to-sync-data-from-a-database-to-google-spreadsheet-c71af04a1a34">[toread] https://blog.bitsrc.io/serverless-function-to-sync-data-from-a-database-to-google-spreadsheet-c71af04a1a34</a> &#8211; </li>
<li><a href="https://read.acloud.guru/simon-wardley-is-a-big-fan-of-containers-despite-what-you-might-think-18c9f5352147">[toread] Containers won the battle, but will lose the war to serverless &mdash; Simon Wardley</a> &#8211; Forrest Brazeal : You&rsquo;ve been around IT for quite awhile, and you&rsquo;re an enthusiastic proponent of serverless development &mdash; how long has serverless been on your&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-reinvent-2018-recap-edition">[toread] AWS reInvent 2018 recap edition</a> &#8211; AWS reInvent 2018 recap edition Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. If you continue&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/lydia_machova_the_secrets_of_learning_a_new_language/up-next">[toread] The secrets of learning a new language</a> &#8211; 612,763 Views L&yacute;dia Machov&aacute; at TED Salon: Brightline Initiative Editor&#039;s note: This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Brightline&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.trek10.com/blog/dynamodb-single-table-relational-modeling/">[toread] Trek10 | From relational DB to single DynamoDB table: a step-by-step exploration</a> &#8211; Forrest Brazeal in aws 14 minutes to read Of all the sessions I&rsquo;ve seen from AWS re:Invent 2018, my favorite is certainly this bewildering drop-kick of NoSQL&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-oss-and-spring-boot-coming-full-circle-4855947713a0">[toread] Netflix OSS and Spring Boot &mdash; Coming Full Circle &ndash; Netflix TechBlog &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; Taylor Wicksell, Tom Cellucci, Howard Yuan, Asi Bross, Noel Yap, and David Liu Netflix Technology Blog Dec 18 In 2007, Netflix started on a long road towards&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://itnext.io/an-illustrated-guide-to-kubernetes-networking-part-3-f35957784c8e">[toread] An illustrated guide to Kubernetes Networking [Part 3]</a> &#8211; Everything I learned about the Kubernetes Networking Amanpreet Singh Dec 9 This is the third part of the series about Kubernetes Networking. If you haven&rsquo;t read&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://itnext.io/an-illustrated-guide-to-kubernetes-networking-part-2-13fdc6c4e24c">[toread] An illustrated guide to Kubernetes Networking [Part 2]</a> &#8211; Everything I learned about the Kubernetes Networking Amanpreet Singh Nov 29, 2017 This is the second part of the series about Kubernetes Networking. If you&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://itnext.io/an-illustrated-guide-to-kubernetes-networking-part-1-d1ede3322727">[toread] An illustrated guide to Kubernetes Networking [Part 1]</a> &#8211; Everything I learned about the Kubernetes Networking Amanpreet Singh Nov 15, 2017 Y ou&rsquo;ve been running a bunch of services on a Kubernetes cluster and reaping&hellip;</li>
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		<title>Links for October 17th through December 14th</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] A map for Machine Learning on AWS &#8211; Julien Simon &#8211; Medium &#8211; Julien Simon Dec 14 It looks like Christmas is a little early this year 😉 Here&#8217;s a little something from me to all of you out &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2018/12/17/links-for-october-17th-through-december-14th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="https://medium.com/@julsimon/a-map-for-machine-learning-on-aws-a285fcd8d932">[toread] A map for Machine Learning on AWS &ndash; Julien Simon &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; Julien Simon Dec 14 It looks like Christmas is a little early this year <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> Here&rsquo;s a little something from me to all of you out there: a map to navigate ML&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://serverless.com/blog/publish-aws-lambda-layers-serverless-framework/">[toread] How to publish and use AWS Lambda Layers with the Serverless Framework</a> &#8211; AWS re:Invent is in full swing, with AWS announcing a slew of new features. Most notably, we&rsquo;re pretty excited about AWS Lambda&#039;s support for Layers. Layers&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge">[toread] The Friendship That Made Google Huge</a> &#8211; The company&rsquo;s top coders seem like two halves of a single mind. Illustration by David Plunkert One day in March of 2000, six of Google &rsquo;s best engineers&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/scaling-eng">[toread] Stripe Atlas: Guide to scaling engineering organizations</a> &#8211; Introduction At Stripe, we think a lot about scale. As we&rsquo;ve scaled our products to process billions of dollars a year for millions of businesses, we&rsquo;ve also&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="http://ksah.in/introduction-to-web-scraping-with-java/">[toread] Introduction to Web scraping with Java</a> &#8211; Web scraping or crawling is the fact of fetching data from a third party website by downloading and parsing the HTML code to extract the data you want. Since&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.etftrends.com/advisor-solutions-channel/last-bastion-human-trading-giving-up-algorithmic-overlords/">[toread] The Last Bastion Of Human Trading Is Giving Up To the Algorithmic Overlords</a> &#8211; The Last Bastion Of Human Trading Is Giving Up To the Algorithmic Overlords</li>
<li><a href="https://pgaleone.eu/tensorflow/gan/2018/11/04/tensorflow-2-models-migration-and-new-design/">[toread] Tensorflow 2.0: models migration and new design</a> &#8211; Tensorflow 2.0 will be a major milestone for the most popular machine learning framework: lots of changes are coming, and all with the aim of making ML&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/productivity-freak/the-ultimate-vscode-setup-for-js-react-6a4f7bd51a2">[toread] The Ultimate VSCode Setup for JS/React</a> &#8211; My The Ultimate Atom Editor Setup (+for JS/React) post is pretty popular, but not long ago I migrated to VSCode . Why? Speed, stability and TypeScript. Overall,&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://keyholesoftware.com/2018/11/05/building-a-node-js-service-with-aws-lambda-dynamodb-and-serverless-framework/">[toread] Building a Node.js Service with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and Serverless Framework | Keyhole Software</a> &#8211; As a developer, my favorite new technology is serverless computing. The convenience and cost make it a compelling choice for running options in the cloud&ndash;&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.bitsrc.io/serverless-backend-using-aws-lambda-hands-on-guide-31806ceb735e">[toread] Serverless Backend using AWS Lambda: Hands-on Guide</a> &#8211; Serverless architecture refers to the concept where you give your backend logic to a third party vendor&rsquo;s server architecture. Doing this allows a developer to&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://kite.com">[toread] Kite &#8211; AI-Powered Python Copilot</a> &#8211; Introduction Python is the fastest-growing programming language out there. That isn&rsquo;t surprising given that it&rsquo;s simple, easy to use, free, and applicable for&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://grahamlyons.com/article/everything-you-need-to-know-about-networking-on-aws">[toread] Graham Lyons | Everything You Need To Know About Networking On AWS</a> &#8211; Disclaimer: I&rsquo;m not a network engineer and never have been &#8211; a tame network engineer has been consulted to ensure factual and terminological accuracy. The&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.puresec.io/blog/aws-lambda-security-quick-guide">[toread] AWS Lambda Security Quick-Start Guide</a> &#8211; In January 2018, the world&#039;s first Serverless Security Top 10 guide was published. The guide was an effort lead by PureSec together with industry thought&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers-shouldnt-write-etl/">[toread] Engineers Shouldn&rsquo;t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department | Stitch Fix Technology &ndash; Multithreaded</a> &#8211; Why is that? If you read the recruiting propaganda of data science and algorithm development departments in the valley, you might be convinced that the&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/272696002">[toread] TRAIN AI 2018 &#8211; Building the Software 2.0 Stack</a> &#8211; Join Log in Host videos Compare plans Professionals Businesses Live streaming Features Video School Sell your videos Launch a subscription service Watch Staff&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://jalammar.github.io/gentle-visual-intro-to-data-analysis-python-pandas/">[toread] A Gentle Visual Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas</a> &#8211; If you&rsquo;re planning to learn data analysis, machine learning, or data science tools in python, you&rsquo;re most likely going to be using the wonderful pandas library.&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://hadrienj.github.io/posts/Deep-Learning-Book-Series-Introduction/">[toread] Deep Learning Book Series &middot; Introduction</a> &#8211; The Deep Learning Book &#8211; Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., and Courville, A. (2016) This content is part of a series following the chapter 2 on linear algebra from&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://read.iopipe.com/java-libraries-are-your-lambda-enemy-6c9467321d2b">[toread] Java Libraries are Your Lambda Enemy &ndash; IOpipe Blog</a> &#8211; Java Libraries are Your Lambda Enemy So you are using AWS Lambda and your invocations seem to be running a bit slow, especially in the cold start area. Have you&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/a-tour-of-the-top-10-algorithms-for-machine-learning-newbies-dde4edffae11">[toread] A Tour of The Top 10 Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies</a> &#8211; In machine learning, there&rsquo;s something called the &ldquo; No Free Lunch &rdquo; theorem. In a nutshell, it states that no one algorithm works best for every problem, and&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://stratechery.com/2018/ibms-old-playbook/">[toread] IBM&rsquo;s Old Playbook</a> &#8211; The best way to understand how it is Red Hat built a multi-billion dollar business off of open source software is to start with IBM. Founder Bob Young explained&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07196-1">[toread] Why Jupyter is data scientists&rsquo; computational notebook of choice</a> &#8211; Perched atop the Cerro Pach&oacute;n ridge in the Chilean Andes is a building site that will eventually become the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). When it&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://dev.to/assaultoustudios/is-front-end-development-having-an-identitycrisis-2224">[toread] Is front-end development having an identity crisis?</a> &#8211; Courtesy Adobe Stock Does front-end development as a we know it still exist; or has the role evolved into something we no longer recognise? As with evolution in&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-serverless-application-model-sam-command-line-interface-build-test-and-debug-serverless-apps-locally/">[toread] AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface &ndash; Build, Test, and Debug Serverless Apps Locally | Amazon Web Services</a> &#8211; Decades ago, I wrote page after page of code in 6502 assembly language. After assembling and linking the code, I would load it into memory, set breakpoints at&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@tomgold_48918/how-to-apply-solid-principles-in-react-applications-6c964091a982">[toread] How to apply SOLID principles in React applications</a> &#8211; In this article, we are going to look at the SOLID principles and how to apply them in the React. For the sake of simplicity, I will not provide the full&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://realpython.com/python-boto3-aws-s3/">[toread] Python, Boto3, and AWS S3: Demystified &ndash; Real Python</a> &#8211; Table of Contents Installation Client Versus Resource Common Operations Creating a Bucket Naming Your Files Creating Bucket and Object Instances Understanding&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/s/story/4-things-nobody-ever-tells-you-about-innovation-5a9168b89968">[toread] Innovation Isn&rsquo;t About Ideas &ndash; Member Feature Stories &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; E very enterprise needs to innovate. It doesn&rsquo;t matter whether you&rsquo;re are a profit-seeking business, a nonprofit organization, or a government entity. The&hellip;</li>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] Examples of CTAS Queries &#8211; Amazon Athena &#8211; AWS Documentation &#187; Amazon Athena &#187; User Guide &#187; Querying Data in Amazon Athena Tables &#187; Creating a Table from Query Results (CTAS) &#187; Examples of CTAS Queries&#8230; [toread] Google GKE &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2018/10/16/links-for-september-29th-through-october-15th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/ctas-examples.html">[toread] Examples of CTAS Queries &#8211; Amazon Athena</a> &#8211; AWS Documentation &raquo; Amazon Athena &raquo; User Guide &raquo; Querying Data in Amazon Athena Tables &raquo; Creating a Table from Query Results (CTAS) &raquo; Examples of CTAS Queries&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://kubedex.com/google-gke-vs-microsoft-aks-vs-amazon-eks/">[toread] Google GKE vs Microsoft AKS vs Amazon EKS &#8211; kubedex.com</a> &#8211; Edit: The spreadsheet now also includes IBM IKS and Alibaba Cloud ACK too. There have been many comparisons done between these cloud hosted Kubernetes providers&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://itnext.io/implementing-json-web-tokens-passport-js-in-a-javascript-application-with-react-b86b1f313436">[toread] Implementing JSON Web Tokens &amp; Passport.js in a JavaScript Application with React</a> &#8211; B efore you say it, I know, I know. There&rsquo;s already a literal ton of MERN tutorials out there showing how to use JWT (JSON Web Tokens) and Passport.js with&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2017/05/06/data-is-giving-rise-to-a-new-economy">[toread] Data is giving rise to a new economy</a> &#8211; AN OIL refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses: ornate cracking towers its gothic pinnacles, flaring gas its stained&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/10/using-machine-learning-to-index-text-from-billions-of-images/">[toread] Using machine learning to index text from billions of images</a> &#8211; In our previous blog post s , we talked about how we updated the Dropbox search engine to add intelligence into our users&rsquo; workflow, and how we built our&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cebglobal.com/content/enterprise-architecture/us/en/member/blog/18/05/three-reasons-why-you-should-encourage-your-business-partners-to-experiment-with-technology.html">[toread] Three Reasons Why You Should Encourage Your Business Partners to Experiment with Technology &#8211; CEB Enterprise Architecture Leadership Council</a> &#8211; The days of the IT monopoly on technology spending are over. In years gone by, IT aimed to find areas of &ldquo;shadow IT&rdquo; and close them down, but the advent of SaaS&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795/">[toread] The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job</a> &#8211; Gabrielle Lurie / Reuters I n 2016, an anonymous confession appeared on Reddit: &ldquo;From around six years ago up until now, I have done nothing at work.&rdquo; As far as&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://zenhabits.net/flexible/">[toread] Developing a More Flexible Mind : zen habits</a> &#8211; It&rsquo;s my belief that a flexible mind helps us to deal with chaos, loss, big life changes, small frustrations, and all that life throws our way. A flexible mind&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://devops.com/is-noops-the-future-of-cloud-networking/">[toread] Is NoOps the Future of Cloud Networking? &#8211; DevOps.com</a> &#8211; As enterprises move more of their applications, data and operations to the cloud, competitive success becomes increasingly about speed. If the answer to a&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://thenewstack.io/why-serverless-is-the-only-way-to-build-apis-in-2018/">[toread] Why Serverless Is the Only Way to Build APIs in 2018 &#8211; The New Stack</a> &#8211; Stackery sponsored this post. There are three primary ways to create an API when it&rsquo;s not logical or practical to create the API from within your own web app.&hellip;</li>
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		<title>Links for September 10th through September 28th</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] An Introduction to Serverless Microservices &#8211; Jeremy Daly &#8211; Thinking about microservices, especially their communication patterns, can be a bit of a mind-bending experience for developers. The idea of splitting an&#8230; [toread] A 30MB native image with Helidon to &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2018/09/28/links-for-september-10th-through-september-28th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="https://www.jeremydaly.com/an-introduction-to-serverless-microservices/">[toread] An Introduction to Serverless Microservices &#8211; Jeremy Daly</a> &#8211; Thinking about microservices, especially their communication patterns, can be a bit of a mind-bending experience for developers. The idea of splitting an&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/oracledevs/a-30mb-native-image-with-helidon-to-run-rest-based-microservices-19c481fdda3c">[toread] A 30MB native image with Helidon to run REST based microservices</a> &#8211; </li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@PaulDJohnston/serverless-best-practices-b3c97d551535">[toread] Serverless Best Practices &ndash; Paul Johnston &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; Within the community we&rsquo;ve been debating the best practices for many years, but there are a few that have been relatively accepted for most of that time. Most&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.7pace.com/blog/become-a-better-programmer-skills-development">[toread] How to Become a Better Software Developer: A Handbook on Personal Performance</a> &#8211; There&rsquo;s a big difference between writing code and being a great programmer . Writing code is the output&ndash;and almost anyone can learn the basics of syntax and&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://dev.to/adnanrahic/containers-vs-serverless-from-a-devops-standpoint-e4n">[toread] Containers vs. Serverless from a DevOps standpoint</a> &#8211; Two buzzwords walk into a bar&#8230; No? Yeah, let&#039;s not go there. If you feel like this, you&#039;re in the right place. Both containers and serverless have been the&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://bravenewgeek.com/multi-cloud-is-a-trap/">[toread] Multi-Cloud Is a Trap</a> &#8211; It comes up in a lot of conversations with clients. We want to be cloud-agnostic. We need to avoid vendor lock-in. We want to be able to shift workloads&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.upsolver.com/blog/blog-apache-kafka-and-data-lake">[toread] Apache Kafka with and without a Data Lake</a> &#8211; Apache Kafka is a cornerstone of many streaming data projects. However, it is only the first step in the potentially long and arduous process of transforming&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.jeremydaly.com/serverless-microservice-patterns-for-aws/">[toread] Serverless Microservice Patterns for AWS &#8211; Jeremy Daly</a> &#8211; I&rsquo;m a huge fan of building microservices with serverless systems. Serverless gives us the power to focus on just the code and our data without worrying about&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.marcobehler.com/guides/a-guide-to-logging-in-java">[toread] A guide to logging in Java</a> &#8211; Developers can use this guide to discover, understand and use the right Java logging library for their applications, like Log4j2, Logback, or java.util.logging.&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://dev.to/adnanrahic/a-crash-course-on-serverless-with-aws---triggering-lambda-with-sns-messaging-30nf">[toread] A crash course on Serverless with AWS &#8211; Triggering Lambda with SNS Messaging</a> &#8211; If you&#039;re like me, a sucker for event-driven programming, you&#039;ll want to continue reading. Today we&#039;ll take a look at triggering AWS Lambda functions from AWS&hellip;</li>
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		<title>Links for August 26th through September 5th</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] Serverless Web Scraping with Java &#8211; Serverless is a term referring to the execution of code inside ephemeral containers (Function As A Service, or FaaS). It is a hot topic in 2018, after the&#8230; [toread] Putting The Dev Into &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2018/09/05/links-for-august-26th-through-september-5th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://ksah.in/serverless-web-scraping-with-aws-lambda-and-java/">[toread] Serverless Web Scraping with Java</a> &#8211; Serverless is a term referring to the execution of code inside ephemeral containers (Function As A Service, or FaaS). It is a hot topic in 2018, after the&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/runatlantis/putting-the-dev-into-devops-why-your-developers-should-write-terraform-too-d3c079dfc6a8">[toread] Putting The Dev Into DevOps: Why Your Developers Should Write Terraform Too</a> &#8211; Terraform is an amazing tool for provisioning infrastructure. Terraform enables your operators to perform their work faster and more reliably. But if only your&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-similarweb-analyze-hundreds-of-terabytes-of-data-every-month-with-amazon-athena-and-upsolver/">[toread] How SimilarWeb analyze hundreds of terabytes of data every month with Amazon Athena and Upsolver | Amazon Web Services</a> &#8211; How SimilarWeb analyze hundreds of terabytes of data every month with Amazon Athena and Upsolver | AWS Big Data Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS Big&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@julsimon/apache-spark-and-amazon-sagemaker-the-infinity-gems-of-analytics-8bd780b07243">[toread] Apache Spark and Amazon SageMaker, the Infinity Gems of analytics</a> &#8211; In a previous post, I showed you how to build a spam classifier by running PySpark on an Amazon SageMaker notebook instance. This is a fine setup for&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/build-machine-learning-model/">[toread] How to build a machine learning model &#8211; Amazon Web Services (AWS)</a> &#8211; How to build a machine learning model &#8211; Amazon Web Services (AWS) Get Started with the Implementation Guide 6 Steps | 30 Minutes Main Services Used and Costs&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.gruntwork.io/open-sourcing-terratest-a-swiss-army-knife-for-testing-infrastructure-code-5d883336fcd5">[toread] Open sourcing Terratest: a swiss army knife for testing infrastructure code</a> &#8211; Yevgeniy Brikman Co-founder of Gruntwork, Author of &ldquo;Hello, Startup&rdquo; and &ldquo;Terraform: Up &amp; Running&rdquo; Apr 30 Tools to test Terraform, Packer, Docker, AWS, and much&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://danieltakeshi.github.io/2013/07/05/ten-things-python-programmers-should-know/">[toread] Ten Things Python Programmers Should Know</a> &#8211; Update May 18, 2017 : It&rsquo;s been almost four years since I wrote this originalblog post. It has become, according to Google Analytics, the most popular blogpost&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://techbeacon.com/serverless-computing-update-latest-top-4-platforms">[toread] Serverless computing update: The latest on the top 4 platforms | TechBeacon</a> &#8211; If you&#039;re not doing serverless computing now, chances are you will be soon. And if you&#039;re already working with serverless , its role in IT operations is only&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.robinwieruch.de/graphql-apollo-server-tutorial/">[toread] GraphQL Server Tutorial with Apollo Server and Express &#8211; RWieruch</a> &#8211; Follow I was devastated hearing the news about what happened on Lombok in the last couple of days. Having lived in Bali for the last few months, I have a huge&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://hbr.org/2018/08/how-to-hand-off-an-innovation-project-from-one-team-to-another">[toread] How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another</a> &#8211; D-BASE/Getty Images Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into&hellip;</li>
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		<title>Links for August 13th through August 24th</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] 10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey &#8211; Netflix, Mapbox, A Cloud Guru, BlackBoard, Conde Nast, and New York Times. Do you know what these companies have in common? All migrated to serverless and have&#8230; [toread] &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2018/08/24/links-for-august-13th-through-august-24th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="https://www.simform.com/serverless-examples-aws-lambda-use-cases/">[toread] 10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey</a> &#8211; Netflix, Mapbox, A Cloud Guru, BlackBoard, Conde Nast, and New York Times. Do you know what these companies have in common? All migrated to serverless and have&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL_Sje01A5M">[toread] (1) Serverless Streams, Topics, Queues, &amp; APIs! Pick the Right Serverless Application Pattern &#8211; YouTube</a> &#8211; Go to the Legal Help page to request content changes for legal reasons.</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.epsagon.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-aws-step-functions">[toread] Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to AWS Step Functions</a> &#8211; Announced during re : Invent 2016, AWS Step Functions is the spiritual descendant of the not-so-simple-to-use Simple Workflow (SWF) service. It addresses many&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://dev.to/adnanrahic/a-crash-course-on-serverless-side-rendering-with-vuejs-nuxtjs-and-aws-lambda-1nk4">[toread] A crash course on serverless-side rendering with Vue.js, Nuxt.js and AWS Lambda</a> &#8211; That&#039;s a mouthful of a title right there. Don&#039;t let it scare you away. What it boils down to is rather simple. We want the best of both worlds. The SEO boost&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/write-quality-mobile-apps-any-architecture">[toread] Write quality mobile apps in any architecture</a> &#8211; In the beginning, there was MVC (Model-View-Controller) &mdash; for a long time the main pattern Apple and Google promoted in their tutorials for iOS and Android&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://serverless.com/blog/streamline-serverless-workflow-webstorm/">[toread] How to streamline your serverless workflow with WebStorm</a> &#8211; If you build serverless applications, here&rsquo;s a serverless-specific IDE setup that will help you streamline your workflow. Over the past few years, I&rsquo;ve been&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://arcentry.com/blog/our-not-so-smooth-journey-getting-a-serverless-webapp-to-production/">[toread] Our (not so smooth) journey productising a serverless app on AWS</a> &#8211; by Wolfram Hempel ( @wolframhempel ) Mon Aug 06 2018 Serverless is the future. I&#039;m sure of it. The cloud&#039;s great promise is to help companies focus on business&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17780092">[toread] Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an &lsquo;Excruciating&rsquo; Year | Hacker News</a> &#8211; I think this hits at the crux of the issue around the performance/behaviour of Musk and other leaders of hugely ambitious companies.<br />
And I think it highlights&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.freecodecamp.org/this-is-why-anyone-can-learn-machine-learning-a5333ee64dff">[toread] This is why anyone can learn Machine Learning &ndash; freeCodeCamp</a> &#8211; Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash Introduction Machine Learning has traditionally been a technology that only PhDs and institutions with lots of financial&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://sdtimes.com/cloud/rethinking-the-way-you-build-software-with-serverless/">[toread] Rethinking the way you build software with serverless &#8211; SD Times</a> &#8211; The way software is built is constantly changing to meet the ongoing pressure of getting to the market faster and keeping up with the competition. The software&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/lumigo/takeaways-from-the-serverlessconf-sf-2018-7167838394d5">[toread] Takeaways from the ServerlessConf SF 2018 &ndash; lumigo &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; By Erez Berkner , CEO &amp; Co-Founder of Lumigo Last week I attended ServerlessConf SF . This was the 8th and largest ServerlessConf to date with more than 550&hellip;</li>
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		<title>Links for July 12th through August 11th</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] Pick a serverless fight: A comparative research of AWS Lambda, Azure Functions &#38; Google Cloud Functions &#8211; JAXenter &#8211; The saturation point is nowhere to be seen in the serverless discussion with tons of news coming online every day &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2018/08/12/links-for-july-12th-through-august-11th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="https://jaxenter.com/comparison-aws-azure-google-147706.html">[toread] Pick a serverless fight: A comparative research of AWS Lambda, Azure Functions &amp; Google Cloud Functions &#8211; JAXenter</a> &#8211; The saturation point is nowhere to be seen in the serverless discussion with tons of news coming online every day and numerous reports trying to take the pulse&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://serverless.com/blog/serverlessconf-recap-san-francisco-2018-key-takeaways-future-serverless/">[toread] ServerlessConf 2018 San Francisco: key takeaways for the future of serverless</a> &#8211; It&#039;s been amazing to see the lightning fast transformation happening in the serverless space. ServerlessConf 2016 was the conference of serverless projects. By&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/slashdeploy/book-review-measure-what-matters-d4cba7f98e0e">[toread] Book Review: Measure What Matters &ndash; slashdeploy &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; Official Cover Building on a career-long legacy of sharing the power of OKRs with established and emerging leaders alike, Measure What Matters includes a broad&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-updates-framework-v128/">[toread] Serverless updates &#8211; SQS events, private endpoints, Event Gateway open source</a> &#8211; npm install serverless -g</li>
<li><a href="https://serverless.com/blog/data-lockin-vendor-choice-portability/">[toread] On serverless, data lock-in and vendor choice</a> &#8211; I&rsquo;ve spent the last 5+ years, first at CircleCI and now at Serverless, talking with technology decision makers about their cloud adoption strategies. The number&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@christophe.bougere/the-10-commandments-of-serverless-e5525e2c4bb6">[toread] The 10 commandments of serverless</a> &#8211; Feedbacks on Serverless with AWS Disclaimer: Despite the title, this is not a holy text. I discovered the serverless world in early 2016, when things were much&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@PaulDJohnston/serverless-its-much-much-more-than-faas-a342541b982e">[toread] Serverless: It&rsquo;s much much more than FaaS</a> &#8211; aka Data, Logic and Infrastructure &mdash; how do they fit together? I&rsquo;ve been spending my time since leaving AWS thinking about some of the challenges around&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/introducing-jib-build-java-docker-images-better.html">[toread] Introducing Jib &mdash; build Java Docker images better</a> &#8211; Containers are bringing Java developers closer than ever to a &quot;write once, run anywhere&quot; workflow, but containerizing a Java application is no simple task: You&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.deps.co/blog/google-cloud-platform-good-bad-ugly/">[toread] Google Cloud Platform &#8211; The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It&#8217;s Mostly Good)</a> &#8211; Deps is a private, hosted, Maven repository. While building it I had a critical decision to make &#8211; Where to host it? I evaluated many different hosting services&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/06/28/why-kubernetes-is-the-new-application-server/">[toread] Why Kubernetes is The New Application Server &#8211; RHD Blog</a> &#8211; Why Kubernetes is The New Application Server By Rafael Benevides June 28, 2018 June 28, 2018 +9 rating, 11 votes Loading&#8230; Have you ever wondered why you are&hellip;</li>
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		<title>Links for June 25th through July 11th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toread] Serverless computing could unleash a new startup ecosystem &#8211; While serverless computing isn&#8217;t new, it has reached an interesting place in its development. As developers begin to see the value of serverless architecture, a&#8230; [toread] Build a Basic CRUD &#8230; <a href="https://j2eegeek.com/2018/07/12/links-for-june-25th-through-july-11th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://social.techcrunch.com/2018/07/08/serverless-computing-could-unleash-a-new-startup-ecosystem/">[toread] Serverless computing could unleash a new startup ecosystem</a> &#8211; While serverless computing isn&rsquo;t new, it has reached an interesting place in its development. As developers begin to see the value of serverless architecture, a&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://developer.okta.com/blog/2018/07/10/build-a-basic-crud-app-with-node-and-react">[toread] Build a Basic CRUD App with Node and React | Okta Developer</a> &#8211; There are a lot of JavaScript frameworks out there today. It seems like I hear about a new one every month or so. They all have their advantages and are usually&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://hackernoon.com/exploring-the-aws-lambda-deployment-limits-9a8384b0bec3">[toread] How to beat the AWS Lambda deployment limits &ndash; Hacker Noon</a> &#8211; Deploying function code from S3 allows for substantially larger deployment packages when compared to directly uploading to Lambda. Over the past few months I&rsquo;ve&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://serverless.com/blog/how-droplr-scales-to-millions-serverless-framework/">[toread] How Droplr Scales to Millions With The Serverless Framework</a> &#8211; I&#039;m Antoni Orfin, a Solution Architect at Droplr . We&#039;re used by more than 500,000 users, who share thousands of screenshots, screencasts and files every day&mdash;so&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/flawless-app-stories/useful-git-commands-for-everyday-use-e1a4de64037d">[toread] Useful git commands for everyday use! &ndash; Flawless App Stories &ndash; Medium</a> &#8211; Do you know that questions about git get the most views on StackOverflow? I&rsquo;ve searched a lot on Google how to execute certain actions with git, and this&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/build-a-data-lake-foundation-with-aws-glue-and-amazon-s3/">[toread] Build a Data Lake Foundation with AWS Glue and Amazon S3 | Amazon Web Services</a> &#8211; Build a Data Lake Foundation with AWS Glue and Amazon S3 | AWS Big Data Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS Big Data Blog Build a Data Lake Foundation&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://read.acloud.guru/event-driven-architecture-with-sqs-and-aws-lambda-cf2ebd529ae3">[toread] Event-driven architecture with Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda</a> &#8211; For those that follow some of my prior posts , you probably know that I am a huge fan of even-driven patterns. Instead of waiting and polling for changes,&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-adds-amazon-simple-queue-service-to-supported-event-sources/">[toread] AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources | Amazon Web Services</a> &#8211; AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources | AWS News Blog Blog Home Category Edition Follow AWS News Blog AWS Lambda Adds Amazon&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/serverless-instant-checkout-links-with-square-6fa331d51928">[toread] Serverless Instant Checkout Links with Square</a> &#8211; Servers beware! Watch out containers! Our serverless overlords are here! There is a lot of hype around serverless and talk about it being the end of containers,&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/techie-tech-lead-my-5-biggest-mistakes">[toread] Techie to tech lead: My five biggest mistakes</a> &#8211; As a young, ambitious developer with a strong sense of my own talent, I was eager to become a tech lead, and it took less than four years for me to achieve this&hellip;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/06/22/ways-to-think-about-machine-learning-8nefy">[toread] Ways to think about machine learning</a> &#8211; We&#039;re now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it. It&#039;s not just that startups are forming&hellip;</li>
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