I started exploring Azure at the start of 2020 when my Google Cloud credits expired and I had to explore alternative platform for demonstrating hands-on usecases in TechPrimers. I got impressed initially with the developer experience in accessing the Azure Portal. And also,
The push Microsoft is taking to climb up the Cloud Wars!
In September 2020, I took the “Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge” by Microsoft as part of their Ignite conference. This earned me a free exam voucher to take up an Azure certification — It lead to the increasing curiosity to explore about Azure services.
I have been…
Last year, I mentioned about not attending the re:Invent 2019 Live from Las Vegas. This year, I still sit at the same view at home with everyone going through the same experience across the globe. I don’t think it’s a time to be proud about, however I feel we are lucky enough to sustain our work life remotely with less hassle even during this pandemic.
The mind boggling number of registered attendees (500,000+) shows the sheer amount of interest and popularity ofAc Amazon Web Services! Period!
What does it take to reInvent? - Leadership will to invent and reinvent …
This post is based on the video I made in TechPrimers. If you like the video format, the link for the video is here
Podman is a Daemonless Container Engine which can run OCI compatible images. It can run only on Linux machines (for now). If you have either Windows or OSX, you will have to use a Virtual Linux VM in VM Box or Hyperkit.
The major differences between Docker and podman (Pod Manager Tool) are —
In 2003, I wrote my first “Hello World” program in C language using the Turbo C IDE in CSC Computer Education center where I gained my first certification on Unix and C++ during my Standard X to XI spring break.
Linode provides Managed Kubernetes Clusters which claims to have predicatable pricing and cloud simplified which is less than existing big Cloud Providers. You can compare Linode server costs with other Cloud Providers in their Estimator — Sounds competitive, Let’s wait and watch!
The digital arm of sify.com which provides cloud native services across multiple cloud provides and devops toolchain for Enterprise and Cloud Native customers. [Site]
Needs no introduction. …
Amazon AI Conclave is an invite only free event that helps in understanding how to build smart, customer-centric, scalable solutions in the cloud and on the edge using Amazon’s broadest and deepest set of machine learning and AI services.
This years’ AI Conclave was held on Dec 19,20 at ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru, India. The sessions and the complete schedule for the event is listed here. The day 1 events were primarily focused on Business and Entrepreneurs, hence I had registered for the day 2 events. The day was jam packed with different tracks relating to Machine Learning and AI.
I have been getting my hands dirty with Kubernetes for the past 12 months on the Google Kubernetes Engine. This post summarizes the different options available as free in various Layer 1 and Layer 2 Cloud Providers. Do leverage it for learning Kubernetes and staring your cloud native journey.
Provides a $300 credit which can be used for a 12 month period from the account creation. There is no restriction on the resources and the number of nodes for creating a cluster.
Bonus: You get Istio installation with the Google Kubernetes Engine cluster creation.
Link: https://cloud.google.com/free/
Provides a $200 credit…
When you don’t get to attend a conference, you get to watch it live from your couch! Along with that you get to live blog and do multi-tasking with the luxury of having your own privacy :). Here is the list of key services which were announced by Andy Jassy during the AWS re:Invent 2019 Keynote on December 3.
Amazon S3 Access Points — easily manage access for shared data sets on S3— Blog Post
Amazon Redshift Update — Next-Generation Compute Instances and Managed, Analytics-Optimized Storage — Blog Post
AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) — is a new distributed and hardware…
The first and most obvious AWS Service which we try out is the Amazon EC2. And it comes with many blindspots; let’s unfold them one by one.
This is the most generous amount which AWS can provide for a compute engine/VM. Amazon EC2 free tier page says “AWS Free Tier includes 750 hours of Linux and Windows t2.micro instances each month for one year. To stay within the Free Tier, use only EC2 Micro instances”. The hidden blindspot is free tier limits on EC2. In this page, AWS clearly mentions how the hourly usage works in the free tier —
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This was the second conference which I attended apart from GIDS which I participated couple of times. I wanted to get a feel of participating in a AWS only conference which is driven by the AWS Community Heros’. I booked the ticket via KonfHub using CodeOps Technologies coupon which came to around ₹1500, which was fair enough.
I paid a visit to most of the sponsor booths and had good catch up with developers from some of the tools which I use. Below is my view:
The booth was open when others were just setting up their stalls. I have…
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