Codemotion Amsterdam 2019 had a huge variety of talks across more than a dozen tracks. One of the ones that stood out for me was this talk on DevOps, given by Pat Hermens of Coolblue. Coolblue is one of the biggest online retailers in the … Read more
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Config management and cost optimisation for serverless computing
Serverless computing is growing in popularity. In a serverless setup, you no longer run your own virtual servers. Instead, you compose your application using services such as databases and compute. The result is a more streamlined and reactive … Read more
A first web app on Microsoft Azure
In this article you will learn how to create an ASP.NET core app and how to deploy that app on Microsoft Azure. Required software Let's begin with a few mandatory requirements for the development machine. First, we must install .NET Core. This is a … Read more
The importance of Cloud Computing for AI and Big Data
With no surprise, we are witnessing an incredibly growing interest towards cloud computing. There are many applications where developers can't just rely on a private server, needing higher computational resources that only good cloud service … Read more
Going serverless, the easy way
Serverless is one of the (not so) new buzzword in town and it has been gaining a lot of attention lately. Cloud vendors are pushing this technology as much as they can, presenting it as the ultimate way to easily implement complex applications … Read more
Interview with Björn Rabenstein
Björn Rabenstein is a production engineer at SoundCloud and a Prometheus developer. Previously, Björn was a site reliability engineer at Google and a science number cruncher. His talk for Codemotion Berlin, About SRE – and how (not) to apply it, … Read more
Interview with Rossella De Gaetano: Develop and monitor the cloud platform to run your app
Interview with Rossella De Gaetano About the Talk "But have you ever wondered how they develop, maintain and monitor the cloud platform that lets you run your application?" Presented to the IBM Cloud Italia community On 19/02/2018 Hi Rossella, can … Read more
Azure Durable Functions and Serverless Orchestration
Serverless computing is becoming extremely popular in the cloud world, with all the major players offering their own implementation of FaaS (Function as a Service) solutions. This success should not be surprising since there are many advantages in … Read more
A journey riding in the cloud(s)
The cloud computing panorama is a huge and messy collection of technologies, services and providers. Building elastic distributed systems is fun but orientating such a vast environment can be quite challenging. Talking about some do's and don'ts in … Read more
Trent Willis: ServiceWorkers are more than just data proxys
We all enjoy using our favorite web applications to work, communicate, relax, and more. But what happens when an Internet connection is not available? Simply put, if we can't access the web, we can't access our web applications, as they heavily … Read more