Yes, this is the stuff I read for fun. Not on the beach, but at least in a comfy chair out in the hot sunny weather. 🙂
Architecture links: mostly my IT architecture reading was AWS related this summer, but not all of it.
- A good piece on architecture and sustainability
- A topic I’ve been very interested in recently: Improving your IT resilience and disaster recovery capability. Relatedly: Understanding IT Resilience from CIO magazine.
- What software architect wouldn’t want to be able to automagically generate sequence diagrams?
- I consumed quite a few good AWS architecture pieces:
- designing an elastic deployment of Stable Diffusion with Discord on AWS
- architecting a data mesh
- monitoring production systems at scale
- prioritizing sustainable cloud architectures a how to round up
- getting started with containers
- designing serverless solutions
- designing microservices architectures
- designing open source technologies on aws
- desinging resiliency in architectures
- designing devops best practices
- As for other clouds, here’s something on Azure’s saga and also something on 4 cloud cost optimization strategies with Azure
- For users of this: OpenShift Container Platform Reference Architecture Implementation Guides
- Last, here’s that piece lots of people talked about: scaling up the prime video audio video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%
Cloud links: a mixed bag of things, all good.
- My good friend Norbert has been working with AWS serverless technology. I highly recommend you read what he has to say here and here.
- Speaking of that, here’s a piece on building serverless endless aisle retail architectures on AWS.
- I thought this was good: AWS for beginners.
- Useful how-to: How to Troubleshoot Applications on Kubernetes.
- How to run Mastodon on Kubernetes.
- How one company plans to save $7 million dollars from leaving the cloud
- Something good on improving Azure app security
- The New York times on data centers internet infrastructure development
Ops links: I’ve been consulting with clients on operations work, among other things, so here’s pieces on AIOps, DevOps and more that I thought were good:
- Here’s the 15 Best DevOps Tools IT Experts Use
- These are the three Differences Between DevOps and SRE
- Improve your security by knowing the devsecops security software cycle
- Here’s how to become devops engineer
- IBM’s DevOps reference architecture is here
- Also from IBM: Z enterprise devops pattern. Relatedly, create an automated ci/cd pipeline for zos testing using jenkins and zowe.
- Some Azure ci/cd pipeline material for you
- For fans of Grovvy, read this, or this groovy tutorial
- Good stuff: how to create a dashboard in Dynatrace
- Something on turbonomic. Also, understanding application resource management using turbonomic
- a useful IBM piece on AIOps and architecture. More on aiops. Plus an aiops field guide from IBM Cloud. And what are aiops use cases? Need more? Here’s Gartner on aiops.
Software links: mostly dashboard related, since I was working on…dashboards.
- Here’s how to create responsive admin dashboard using html css javascript. As well, how to create a simple web dashboard for efficient data analytics here . Or what about building an admin dashboard layout with css and a touch of javascript?
- Some bootstrap for beginners dashboard layout is also good.
- Need more? building an admin dashboard layout with css and a touch of javascript might help.
- Not dashboard related but great! Microsoft is bringing python to excel
Finally: here’s a mix bag of things, quantum and otherwise, that I enjoyed.
- Here’s some stuff on IBM quantum computing, and on how IBM to Build its First European Quantum Data Center to Serve Expanding Ecosystem. More on IBM in the news: IBM to work with UK government on biometric facial recognition. Also, IBM to make Meta’s Llama2 available on Watsonx.
- A good question: is distributed computing dying or just fading into the backdrop?
- A wild story about how Imax movies need a virtualized palm pilot to work!
- Useful how to create a new Gmail account
- Also helpful How to reset your DNS settings.
- Finally, here’s how to learn the Prolog language by creating an expert system. Machine learning is overrated. 🙂
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