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A Step-by-Step Guide for deploying your React App — Introduction Hosting a React app on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) is a quick and inexpensive way to serve static websites. AWS S3 is a good solution for delivering your React application because of its scalability, security features, and worldwide availability. We’ll walk you through the process of…

June 1st marks the start of another year of Cambridge University Libraries’ five year Digital Preservation Programme. The Programme team has made lots of great progress during Year 2, and I wanted to use this post to highlight a few of these achievements as we move into Year 3. Year 2 Progress To…

How do you prevent credentials and API keys on your laptop to leak into the internet? — In this article, we are going to describe a possible solution to store secrets easily and securely on your laptop that doesn’t involve paying for third-party commercial software (eg. Hashicorp Vault) or cloud resources (eg. Secret Manager) or password managers (eg. 1Password). Introduction Storing secrets securely on your laptop has been…

Cloud Cover AMA: Greetings, Züs community! Hope you are doing well. As a reminder, we have our forthcoming Cloud Cover AMA (Ecclesia #16) scheduled for Thursday, June 1st, at 9 am PST. Saswata will be offering the latest updates on Züs Mainnet, the Active Set and the Apps. This is an excellent occasion…

What happens when you create a Pod in Kubernetes? A surprisingly simple task reveals a complicated workflow that touches several components in the cluster. Let’s start with the obvious: kubectl sends the YAML definition to the API server. In this step, kubectl: Discovers the API endpoints using OpenAPI (Swagger). Negotiates…

I was asked to add couple of fields and change some existing fields in the invoice that will be generated after payment and also make a template generator for handling various emails that has be send to client based on some logic. While going through the codebase, I case across…

A video was released - that seems to show a chemical cloud of sorts floating across a Virginia parking lot. It is unknown where in Virginia this took place. But a few people managed to record it with their camera phone. Unfortunately, the camera work isn’t the best and they…

The basic introduction to Terraform (Infrastructure as a code) — I just started learning Cloud DevOps, and I am an absolute beginner at this. I am also planning to document my learning adventure by writing simple blogs as I progress. While searching for Cloud DevOps, I came across something called Terraform and immediately started reading about it and watching tutorial…

Terraform allows you to define and provision infrastructure resources using declarative configuration files. Input variables in Terraform provide a way to customize the behavior of your configurations by allowing values to be passed externally. They make your configurations more reusable, dynamic, and customizable. …