Art and automation living together In computer science, things can be divided into two categories: things that can be done with your own style;things that must always be done the same way. The first category includes all activities related … Read more
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Serverless Event Processing on AWS Platform w/ Kinesis
The project Openbank is the 100% digital bank of the Santander Group, currently undergoing a technological transformation and international expansion. The work is organized in a startup-like format, using agile methodologies to take client … Read more
C++ to Microservices: Back-end Migration to Continuous Integration
What is Lyra? Lyra is a state-of-the-art solution for managing payments and liquidity. It receives all payment operations (money moving from one bank to another) and communicates with European settlement systems, while maintaining an up-to-date … Read more
IBM Watson Assistant: Language Detection and Answer Translation
IBM Watson Assistant is an AI-based service on the IBM Cloud to help you build and deploy virtual assistants. This is a beneficial technology that can serve in many relevant social and business cases. It can be easily integrated with IBM cloud … Read more
Working with Spot Instances on AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a popular cloud service that lets you run containers in a serverless model—without having to manage the underlying server infrastructure. In this article, you'll see how to use Fargate with a twist: running Fargate on EC2 spot … Read more
10 Security Measures to Look Out for When Choosing a Cloud Vendor Contractor
Cloud vendor contractors offer you the chance to buy computing infrastructure. In other words, they help you keep data in the cloud instead of on your computer’s hard drive, which means you’re able to access anything stored this way through the … Read more
A comprehensive guide to Governed Data Lakes
Data lakes are ideal solutions for organizations which prioritize data in their operations strategy. Clean data adds value to the overall process and triggers the AI’s ability to organize existing processes and extract new patterns, helping both … Read more
5 Cloud Security Mistakes that Businesses Should Avoid
Cloud service providers allow businesses to effortlessly host their data, without the need for technical hardware and with the promise of reducing costs. Sounds like a dream. But, cloud hosting also has the potential for cloud security mistakes. … Read more
Terraform AWS: Files and Variables
In the previous article of our series about Terraform AWS, we looked at an initial project that allowed us to create an SQS-type resource, understanding how to configure Terraform so that it can communicate with AWS thanks to programmatic access … Read more
Start Building Your Own Cloud Native COVID-19 Data Analytics Model
Table Of ContentsWhat will you learn about COVID-19 data analytics?COVID-19 data analytics and cloud: topics summaryWhy Microservices? Containerization Orchestration When you read or watch the latest news on the spread of COVID-19 … Read more
Building a Stateful Cloud App on Nimbella or AWS
Building serverless cloud applications? There's a simple way to do that! This article compares the user experience of Nimbella and Amazon Web Services when creating a voting app, from a developer's point of view. What sort of Stateful Serverless … Read more
How to Monitor Google Cloud
For those who are using a cloud service, monitoring and management can be the most significant challenge. As cloud-based infrastructures grow in size, they become far more difficult to manage effectively — without dominating the amount of time the … Read more
Kubernetes and COVID-19: Powering Critical IT Infrastructure During Crisis
As social distancing and work from home restrictions were put in place, cloud computing took the spotlight for many organizations. Those who were already remote, with fully operational cloud services were able to transition relatively … Read more
Terraform AWS: Up and Running in 25 Minutes
Table Of ContentsWhat is Terraform?PrerequisitesWhat you will learnTerraform: Installation of the CLICreation and configuration of a user dedicated to TerraformTerraform: start!Connect Terraform to AWSInfrastructure creation - the journey beginsWhat … Read more
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Take their Clouds to the Edge
It might surprise you to learn that the big three public clouds – AWS, Google Could Platform, and Microsoft Azure – are all starting to provide edge computing capabilities. It’s puzzling, because the phrase “edge computing” implies a mini … Read more
How to Monitor Cloud Metrics For Scaling
Over the last few years companies have invested massively in cloud-based platforms and applications. Companies spent billions on cloud-computing infrastructure in 2019, while worldwide spend looks set to grow 17% this year. Software as … Read more
Cloud computing remains a critical component of innovation
Digital transformation is in abundance, thanks to the migration from mainframes to datacentres and the explosion of cloud (and edge) computing. Cloud computing is ubiquitous in today's technology, and it would be hard to find a business that doesn't … Read more
Running Docker images on Microsoft Azure
In a previous article, we discussed how to create a new web app and deploy it to an Azure Web App instance. This article goes a step further, creating a Docker image for the web app in order to have more flexibility in management and … Read more
4 Tips That Will Lead to a Smooth Enterprise Cloud Migration
We’ve heard a lot about the cloud in recent years. It has rapidly become an integral part of the technological revolution that, in turn, has had such a far-reaching, transformative impact on how we do business with one another. From choosing an … Read more
6 Best Practices for DevOps in The Cloud
For many companies, development and operations are treated as separate entities - often at odds with one another. However, the benefit of combining them is starting to be recognized and most companies that are ahead of the game have turned to DevOps … Read more