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Seven Steps for Improving Cloud Security with Business Integration
For business owners and information technology professionals, cloud computing has represented a significant advancement in terms of efficiency and supportability. But like with any major shift in the IT industry, the cloud brings a host of new security risks. Let’s take a look at the most common risks associated with integrating cloud-based business systems and how to manage them appropriately.
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Book Review: Alexa Skills Projects by Madhur Bhargava
In this book, Barghava introduces developers to Alexa and the Amazon platform that can be used to build skills. The book includes many hands-on examples and allows developers to quickly experience conversational application development. At the end of the book, Barghava provides a glimpse into the future and provides readers with some of his insights on the future of digital assistant capabilities.
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DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report - February 2019
An overview of how the “cloud computing” and DevOps space is evolving in 2019 including updates on Kubernetes, Chaos Engineering, Service meshes and more.
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Continuous Delivery - It’s Not All about Tech!
It’s easy to get caught up in the technical side of continuous delivery. Objectively observing all stages of the releases in action allows measuring the release process to find non-tech factors hindering your releases and the bottlenecks and queues. Make sure your communication methods are effective, and that all the people involved are genuinely working together well.
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Four Techniques Serverless Platforms Use to Balance Performance and Cost
There are two aspects that have been key to the rapid adoption of serverless computing: the performance and the cost model. This article looks at those aspects, the tradeoffs, and opportunity ahead.
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Ambassador: Building a Control Plane for an Envoy-Powered API Gateway on Kubernetes
This article provides an insight into the creation of the Ambassador open source API gateway for Kubernetes, and discusses the technical challenges and lessons learned from building a developer-focused control plane for managing ingress or "edge" traffic within microservice-based applications.
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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.
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Virtual Panel: Kubernetes and the Challenges of Multi-Cloud
Kubernetes is eliminating vendor lock-in and enabling cloud portability. In this panel, the panelists talk about what multi-cloud means as more than a common platform on multiple clouds.
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Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - January 2019
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the “architecture and design” (A&D) topic evolving in 2019, which focuses on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills.
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Scaling a Distributed Stream Processor in a Containerized Environment
The article presents our experience of scaling a distributed stream processor in Kubernetes. The stream processor should provide support for maintaining the optimal level of parallelism. However, adding more resources incurs additional cost and also it does not guarantee performance improvements. Instead, the stream processor should identify the level of resource requirement and scale accordingly.
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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.
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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.