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Service Catalog and Kubernetes

Cloud-native applications do not just live inside Kubernetes—they also benefit from using the available cloud managed services. Similar to Kubernetes' declarative object configuration model, the Open Service Broker API with the Service Catalog provides a declarative way to describe cross-platform/cross-cloud managed service dependencies.

Ara Pulido
on Feb 04, 2019
Cloud

Building a VPC with CloudFormation - Part 2

If you're building separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) templates for each infrastructure use case, you can make existing templates more flexible by using Parameters, Conditions, Mappings, and Outputs.

Ken Krueger
on Dec 28, 2018
Cloud

Building a VPC with CloudFormation - Part 1

This article describes how to use AWS CloudFormation to create and manage a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), complete with subnets, NATting, and more. It's a lesson in treating infrastructure as code when building and managing cloud resources.

Ken Krueger
on Dec 21, 2018
Architecture & Design

The Serverless Sea Change

This article defines and explains how serverless is different from other application architectures and then walks through a "proof" of sorts to show that serverless application architectures, when done properly, are superior to non-serverless architectures. Finally, it concludes with a number of rules of thumb to help architects and developers realize the benefits of serverless.

Joe Emison
on Nov 23, 2018
Web Development

Getting Started with Vue.js

Learn how to use Vue CLI to build a Vue.js 2 application for searching and displaying Giphy images, and then manipulating/transforming them by using the Cloudinary API. Also, you'll learn how to deploy this application to AWS.

Gilad David Maayan
on Oct 31, 2018
Cloud

AWS VPC Subnets – in Layperson’s Terms

In this article, we are going to look at the different types of VPC setups available in AWS. We will also walk through the core terminology for VPC and explain the primary components.

Prasad Vara
on May 28, 2018
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Real-time Data Processing in AWS Cloud

In this article, author Oleksii Tymchenko discusses a bio-informatic software as a service (SaaS) product called Chorus, which was built as a public data warehousing and analytical platform for mass spectrometry data. Other features of the product include real-time visualization of raw mass-spec data.

Oleksii Tymchenko
on Nov 11, 2015
Architecture & Design

Deploying Microservices to AWS at Gilt: Introducing ION-Roller

Over a period of seven years, gilt.com has grown from an e-commerce start-up running a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to $1B luxury goods company operating a cloud-based microservice platform utilising Scala, Docker and AWS. This article introduces Gilt's ION-Roller continuous deployment application, and explains the history and motivations that lead to the creation of this tool.

Natalia Bartol Adrian Trenaman Gary Coady
on May 08, 2015
Hologram - Finally, AWS Key Distribution that Makes Sense

Faced with the lack of solutions for secure distribution of AWS access keys to developers, AdRoll decided to build their own open source Hologram, a system that brings Amazon's Instance Profile mechanism to developer workstations. Adair details the process, tool design and main features.

Arian Adair
on Mar 31, 2015
DevOps in AWS LiveLessons Review and Q&A with Author Paul Duvall

Addison-Wesley Professional Devops in AWS LiveLessons is a 4+ hours video course for infrastructure developers and Sys Ops engineers who aim at creating a fully-automated continuous delivery system in AWS. The course is focused on leveraging key features of AWS while also presenting them in the framework of DevOps best practices and tools. InfoQ has spoken with course author Paul Duvall.

Sergio De Simone
on Feb 12, 2015
Securing Servers in the Cloud: An Interview With Trend Micro

What’s the best way to protect servers in the cloud? How can you account for the transient nature of cloud servers and provide the same protection in the cloud as on on-premises? To find out, InfoQ spoke with Mark Nunnikhoven, a Principal Engineer in the Cloud & Emerging Technologies division at Trend Micro. You can find Mark on Twitter as @marknca.

Richard Seroter
on Nov 13, 2013
Interview: Adrian Cockcroft on High Availability, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned in the Cloud

Netflix is a widely referenced case study for how to effectively operate a cloud application at scale. While their hyper-resilient approach may not be necessary at most organizations, Netflix has advanced the conversation about what it means to build modern systems. In this interview, InfoQ spoke with Adrian Cockcroft who is the Cloud Architect for the Netflix platform.

Richard Seroter
on Oct 11, 2013