Issue 227 - How to use the 'good parts' of AWS (25)

Liftbridge: Lightweight, Fault-Tolerant Message Streams — A server that implements a durable, replicated message log for NATS.

'How I Use The Good Parts of AWS, While Filtering Out All The Hype' — A rolled up Twitter thread that was very popular last week and raised some interesting points in how to use AWS well (which controversially involves avoiding Lambda, API Gateway, Kubernetes, and more..)

Amazon's Text-to-Speech Service, Polly, Gets a Major, ML-Driven Quality Upgrade — Polly is the AWS service for turning text into speech, and I’ve found it rather.. robot-like till now. This update with new ML-based ‘neural text-to-speech’ and ‘newscaster-style’ reading helps a lot. There are lots of examples right in the post.

Exploring Domain-Driven Design at CircleCI — Domain-Driven Design connects software architecture and relevant domains by using a universally accepted model. For my team, there are two concepts that have been helpful to us: defining our Bounded Contexts and our Ubiquitous Language.

GitHub Blocks Developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea — The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community, including at Microsoft-owned GitHub where developers in countries like Iran have been unable to access private repositories.

Registrar Namecheap Stands Up to ICANN to Keep Domain Prices in Check — ICANN recently announced that it would remove price caps for the .org TLD which could significantly increase domain prices. As a major domain registrar, Namecheap has officially asked ICANN to reconsider its decision.

Just How Can It Take 'Days' to Unsubscribe Someone From an Email List? — An interesting story in a Twitter thread that answers the question of why it can sometimes take multiple days to be removed from an email list (not ours!) .. manual labor, antiquated systems, and 24 hour delayed SQL queries play a role.

S3 Bucket Namesquatting: Abusing Predictable S3 Bucket Names — A warning and call to check out your own setup if you’re using S3 with region substitution in bucket names.

How Mux Routed Around a Major Network Outage — Read about how we used dynamic CDN selection to maintain the performance of Mux Video during the June Verizon outage.

Tracking DNS Records in Version Control — How the company behind Business Insider keeps (structured) track of their Dyn and NS1-based DNS records.

The Pipeline Driven Organization: Enabling True Continuous Delivery — “The less human bottlenecks stand in the way of pipelines, the more pipeline driven we become, which enables true continuous delivery.”

How Much Does It Cost to Host a Podcast on Amazon AWS? — Versus using a dedicated podcasting host.. the spoiler is, avoid AWS for this unless you really know what you’re doing.

Don't Ask If A Monorepo Is Good for You – Ask If You're Good Enough for A Monorepo..

Kubernetes Deployments: The Ultimate Guide — What you need to know about Kubernetes deployments to deliver your Docker containers to production.

How SAML 2.0 Authentication Works — Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) provides a way to exchange authorization and authentication information between services, such as in SSO situations.

Cache Me If You Can: HTTP Caching Concepts Explained — A walk through a variety of HTTP caching concepts and techniques.

A Dive into PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora — Amazon Aurora boasts PostgreSQL compatibility but what does it really offer, how is it to use, and what are its limitations? Viorel Tabara takes a look.

How to Scan Docker Images for Vulnerabilities with Harbor — Harbor is an open source cloud native registry that stores, signs, and scans container images for vulnerabilities.

C++20 Is Feature Complete; Here’s What Changes Are Coming — If you haven’t played with C++ in many years, there’s a lot to enjoy (including the goodies from C++11 and C++17 like lambdas and auto).

DB Fiddle: An SQL Database Playground — I’ve found this tool useful for testing out little bits of SQL. It lets you run basic queries upon several versions of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, right from the browser.

Introducing AWS Chatbot: ChatOps for AWS — A new service that enables devops teams to receive AWS notifications and execute commands in Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms.

LinkedIn Open Sources Brooklin: Near Real-Time Data Streaming at Scale — Brooklin is a distributed service for working with streaming data at scale and has been heavily used by LinkedIn for the past few years. It’s built in Java and is now open source.

SFTPGo: A Full Featured SFTP Server Built in Go — Supports password and public key auth, is database driven, includes a REST API for user and quota management, and more.

Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in dev roles and is completely free for job seekers.