Tag Archive: cloud

Mar 21

Swarming Raspberry Pi – Part 1

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Here’s the first in a series of building a robust docker swarm of raspberry pi hosts. This installment goes through installing the Pi(s), modifiying the Docker Daemon config, and starting up a test to verify that everyone can join the cluster. The cluster which I am using consists of Raspberry Pi B+ x 5 Raspberry …

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Mar 06

Nifty Things for Week Ending 6 March 2015

Karojisatsu — PSA & Must Read Stephen, in his presentation, described a Japanese term called Karoshi – literally as “death from overwork.” I have seen this hundreds of times in our industry and I also have come close enough to understand the brink of Karoshi myself. … In the 1980s there was such a concern …

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Feb 27

Nifty Things for week ending 27 February 2015

Cloud Computing fog – The Ruby cloud services library Docker SocketPlane strives to alleviate Docker networking challenges – TechRepublic Java Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (and showing how to fix it) The KeY Project — Integrated Deductive Software Design Programming DynJS | An ECMAScript Runtime for the JVM Social Consciousness …

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Jan 09

Nifty Things for Week 9 January 2015

Networking Indigo Virtual Switch Project Floodlight — Open Source SDN Cloud Make No Mistake: Mesosphere is Going After OpenStack 5 PaaS anti-patterns Cloud Computing Basics — Platform as a Service (PaaS) DevOps The Three Question DevOps Litmus Test Three More #DEVOPS Litmus Tests ARE YOU REALLY DOING DEVOPS? 8 PREREQUISITES YOU MUST CONSIDER DevOps Bookmarks …

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Jan 02

Nifty Things for Week 2 Jan 2015

Tools Taiga — Open Source agile project management. Supports Scrum & Kanban out of the box. Open Daylight — Software defined networking Cloud OSv — Open Source Operating System designed for Cloud Mesosphere DCOS: One command control of data center services Life Lessons 5 Lessons I Learned at Ebay So You Want to be a …

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Dec 26

Nifty Things for Week of 26 December

Arts and Crafts Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as snowflakes? Genius Fun Stuff The 2014 Chemistry Advent Calendar Data Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase vs OrientDB vs Aerospike vs Neo4j vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris comparison generatedata.com — generate “random” datasets. It …

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Dec 19

Nifty Things for Week of December 19

These are various and sundry interesting things I’ve come across during the week. Random The Icelandic word for raccoon is þvottabjörn which means “laundry bear.” — @SamuelMoen All the Pretty Things Christmas Experiments: Advent Calendar of Open Web Technologies Cloud Computing StackStorm vs. AWS Lambda: Event-Driven Computing vs. Event-Driven Operations AWS Lambda Announcing Snappy Ubuntu …

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