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On November 25, 2019, AWS announced the release of AWS IoT Greengrass 1.10 allowing developers to package applications into Docker container images and deploy these to edge devices. Deploying and running Docker containers on AWS IoT Greengrass devices enables application portability across development environments, edge locations, and the cloud. Docker images can easily be stored in Docker Hub, private container registries, or with Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR).
Docker is committed to working with cloud service provider partners such as AWS who offer Docker-compatible on-demand container infrastructure services for both individual containers as well as multi-container apps. To make it even easier for developers to benefit from the speed of these services but without giving up app portability and infrastructure choice, Docker Hub will seamlessly integrate developers’ “build” and “share” workflows with the cloud “run” services of their choosing.
“Docker and AWS are collaborating on our shared vision of how workloads can be more easily deployed to edge devices. Docker’s industry-leading container technology including Docker Desktop and Docker Hub are integral to advancing developer workflows for modern apps and IoT solutions. Our customers can now deploy and run Docker containers seamlessly on AWS IoT Greengrass devices, enabling development Continue reading
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Not so long ago, there was a question whether exascale supercomputers would be built from a very large number of thin nodes containing only modest amounts of parallelism or a smaller number of fat nodes powered by specialized accelerators and powerful manycore processors. …
OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Today on Day Two Cloud, we talk about multi-cloud networking with sponsor Aviatrix. Aviatrix has built a networking solution that’s multi-cloud capable and leverages cloud-native constructs wherever possible. And they do it in a way designed to make the life of IT engineers better. Our guests are Rod Stuhlmuller, VP Marketing; and Nauman Mustafa, VP Solutions Engineering.
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The speed and agility delivered by fast-moving cloud technologies and modern application architectures have become central to digital business transformation efforts. There is an emerging realization that IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams cannot continue to rely on proprietary, bespoke, and expensive hardware to perform data center functions like networking, security, and load balancing. These functions can be performed more efficiently at scale with distributed software running on x86 hardware while also achieving reduced complexity and cost.
VMware is excited to present this public cloud approach to infrastructure and operations at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference next week, 9–12 December in Las Vegas.
Attend our Speaking Session
Tom Gillis, GM and SVP of VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, will deliver a session on Wednesday titled “A Public Cloud Experience Requires a Different Datacenter and WAN Design”.
Tom will talk about how you can bring the public cloud experience to your Data Center and WAN using a software-based, scale out architecture running on general purpose hardware. Purpose-built hardware designed for homogeneous environments simply cannot handle the fast-moving realities of today’s business priorities. Businesses shouldn’t have to carry the burden of exorbitant CapEx Continue reading
Amazon Web Services is at the top of an expanding mountain, the dominant player in a public cloud services space that is expected to push past $200 billion in revenue this year and make its way well beyond $300 billion by 2022. …
AWS Works Hard To Keep Ahead Of The Public Cloud Herd was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
On 7 October 2019, the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA) released the Online Trust Audit for 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaigns. Overall, 30% of the campaigns made the Honor Roll, and 70% had a failure, mainly related to scores for their privacy statements. As part of this process, OTA reached out to the campaigns, offering to explain their specific Audit scores and ways to improve them. The campaigns were also told that they would be rescored in mid-November and the updated results would be published in early December. As a result, several campaigns contacted us to understand the methodology and scoring, and several of them made improvements.
Rescoring of all elements of the Audit was completed on 25 November, and the table below shows the updated results since release of the original Audit. Several campaigns have been suspended since early October (Messam, O’Rourke, Ryan, and Sanford, as well as Bullock and Sestak in early December). Campaigns shown in bold in the Honor Roll column made enough improvements to earn passing scores for their privacy statements and thereby achieve Honor Roll status. Campaigns shown in italics at the bottom of the table are new entrants since the Audit was released. Continue reading
In a previous article, I have described a solution to self-host
videos while offering a delivery adapted to each user’s bandwith,
thanks to HLS and hls.js. Subtitles1 were not part of
the game. While they can be declared inside the HLS manifest or
embedded into the video, it is easier to include them directly in the
<video> element, using the WebVTT format:
<video poster="poster.jpg" controls preload="none"> <source src="index.m3u8" type="application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"> <source src="progressive.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2"'> <track src="de.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="de" label="Deutsch"> <track src="en.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" label="English"> </video>
Watch the following demonstration, featuring Agent 327: Operation Barbershop, a video created by Blender Animation Studio and currently released under the Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 2.0 license:
You may want to jump to 0:12 for the first subtitle. Most browsers should display a widget to toggle subtitles. This works just fine with Chromium but Firefox will not show the menu Continue reading
Two weeks ago Nicola Modena explained how to design BGP routing to implement resilient high-availability network services architecture. The next step to tackle was obvious: how do you fine-tune convergence times, and how does BGP convergence compare to the more traditional FHRP-based design.
Declarative assembly of web applications from predefined concepts De Rosso et al., Onward! 2019
I chose this paper to challenge my own thinking. I’m not really a fan of low-code / no-code / just drag-and-drop-from-our-catalogue forms of application development. My fear is that all too often it’s like jumping on a motorbike and tearing off at great speed (rapid initial progress), only to ride around a bend and find a brick wall across the road in front of you. That doesn’t normally end well. I’ve seen enough generations of CASE (remember that acronym?), component-based software development, reusable software catalogues etc. to develop a healthy scepticism: lowest-common denominators, awkward or missing round-tripping behaviour, terrible debugging experiences, catalogues full of junk components, inability to accommodate custom behaviours not foreseen by the framework/component developers, limited reuse opportunities in practice compared to theory, and so on.
The thing is, on one level I know that I’m wrong. To start with, there’s Grady Booch’s observation that “the whole history of computer science is one of ever rising levels of abstraction” 1. Then there’s the changing demographic of software building. Heather Miller recently gave a great presentation on this topic, ‘The Continue reading