A bit more than a week ago, Joe Ward wrote about the commonalities he sees between serverless computing and Kubernetes, and how Kubernetes can help in achieving a serverless architecture. In his blog post, he concludes: Given the rapid adoption of Kubernetes over the last few years, coupled with the…

Working in a dynamic language like JavaScript has the advantage that you get stuff done quickly, but comes at the price of intense unit testing to be safe. And when it comes to achieving the coveted 100% coverage, not just for statements, but also branches, you won’t get around to thoroughly testing error conditions and error handling. — Whenever I’m writing node.js code, for instance to be executed in the serverless Adobe I/O Runtime, I’m paying extra attention not only to the regular, expected flow of the program, but even more to the error handling.

One of the best things about my work at Adobe is that I can help make technology that we have been working on internally Open Source. This process involves moving the code, the repository, and the issues from our internal GitHub Enterprise instance to GitHub.com. — Developers at Adobe are encouraged to embody our value of Openness and contribute to the more than 250 Open Source projects at Adobe. Using GitHub Enterprise internally, github.com …

This year I have been collecting data using App in the Air, TripIt, Swarm, RescueTime, GitHub, Apple Health, Strava, GoodReads, Trakt.tv, Letterboxd, and last.fm. Each service offers a year in review visualization of its own (although for some services I prefer the Gyroscope version). …

Apache OpenWhisk (Incubating) allows you to run node.js functions in the cloud, without having to provision a server. — For simple, dependency-less functions, you can create an action simply by using the wsk command line tool from a single JavaScript file. If your function is more complicated, and uses npm dependencies, you need to package the installed dependencies from the node_modules directory with your app. …

Book your summer vacation in Mörchstedt/Inbach — Last week, while on vacation, I read Dan Hon’s post on generating British placenames using a Torch RNN. I trained an A.I. to generate British placenames The results were predictable.medium.com “I can do this, too” or more accurately “das kann ich auch”, I thought and resolved to try this as soon as I got home from my trip (packing too much computing…

Today is the last day of the week and the last day before Adobe’s bi-yearly company-wide break. Reason enough to update you with three essential facts about clouds that every developer should know. — The cloud is really, really heavy. A typical cloud can weigh more than a million pounds, that is about 45.000 metric tons. This means, compared to the typical cloud, your data center is probably a lightweight.

When developing cloud-native applications, “API First” is a core principle. Putting that principle into practice is harder. — In my conversations with developers who are looking to embrace cloud-native development and openness, one question frequently comes up: what exactly does “API First” mean? All too often, “API First” can come to mean “Yeah, APIs are important, but they’re not essential”. There are three principles of API First Design:

The Adobe PhoneGap team has been attending, presenting and sharing at PhoneGap Day EU 2017 in Amsterdam last week. I tagged along and turned my notes into a live-blog. — This is the fifth PhoneGap Day in Europe, and just like last year happening in the wonderful Compagnietheater. The event has been organized by a group of volunteers around Peter Paul Koch and is sponsored by Adobe, Onsen UI, wikitude, and Monaca.