20 posts tagged with "Cloud"

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• Container Support for Lambda
• Introducing AWS Proton
• EC2 macOS Instances
• First-Class .NET 5 Support for Lambda
• CloudShell

Cloud9 Overview and Use Cases​

Per AWS, “Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. It includes a code editor, debugger, and terminal. Cloud9 comes prepackaged with essential tools like Docker and support for popular programming languages, including JavaScript, Python, PHP, and .NET.” The AWS, Serverless Application Model (SAM), and Cloud Development Kit (CDK) CLIs are pre-installed as well. Users are abstracted from credential management (i.e., there’s no need to provision an IAM user and run aws configure). Since the underlying compute is an EC2 instance, developers have a consistent experience across client devices.

Overview​

I’ve been making a concerted effort lately to use infrastructure as code via CloudFormation for all of my personal AWS-hosted projects. Writing these templates can feel a bit tedious, even with editor tooling and plugins. I thought it would be awesome to generate CloudFormation templates for existing resources and first found CloudFormer. I found blog posts about CloudFormer from as far back as 2013, but it was never advertised much.

Overview​

This project serves as an end-to-end working example for testing, building, linting, and deploying an AWS Lambda Node.js function to multiple environments using AWS CloudFormation, Azure Pipelines, and Azure DevOps. The complete source code is located in this GitHub repository, and the build output is publicly available via Azure DevOps.

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• .NET 5: The Future
• Unique Azure Functions Features
• Microsoft Edge Chromium
• .NET Support for Jupyter Notebooks

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Visual Studio Live in San Diego was an amazing opportunity to learn about new Microsoft technology like Azure’s artificial intelligence offerings and .NET Core 3.0. I attended some talks about leadership and Agile as well. I’ve put together several proofs of concept and documented what I learned about:

The Idea​

For a quick weekend project, I wanted to see how feasible setting up a cloud gaming rig would be. Using EC2 from AWS and about 10 USD, I was able to get a proof of concept set up and several games installed and running. I did run into a few issues that this post should address how to get around.

The Use Case​

I own two domains for my personal site. I have a primary domain that I use for most occasions, but I also recently acquired another. Rather than having the second domain remain unused, my goal was simply to have both configured simultaneously without configuring multiple environments.

Recently, Google announced significant changes to the Maps platform to mixed reactions from the development community. While the myriad of products have now been combined and refactored for simplicity, the general concerns seem to stem around a steep increase in price, a Google billing account requirement, falling victim to overage charges from DDoS attacks, and a mere 30-day notice of these changes. All of these factors have many developers (especially of small to medium-sized projects) considering other platforms for map services.

Getting Started: Convention Over Configuration​

This software development paradigm has become prevalent in many modern frameworks and tools. It can be described as streamlining and standardizing aspects of development similar to all or most projects while specifying configurations for those that deviate from the established convention. For example, most Node.js developers call their main file server.js. Let’s say that I want to write a generic deployment script for Node.js applications. It’s much easier to include a simple command like node server.js than to try to determine the developer’s intended start file. This simple agreement saves a great deal of time and configuration details. The emphasis of this paradigm is that the knowledge will hold for any team or company, and so organizations full of old tribal knowledge become a thing of the past.