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To Be On the Cloud or Not To Be?

It is NOT Complicated. It is Rhetorical



 
Today I want to talk about cloud services from an indie hacker's perspective. I'm a fan of trying out new technologies.

If you move too slowly -> You Will Grow Too Slowly... and waste a lot of time catching ghosts.
 
 
A lot of indie hackers use Heroku + Mongo/Postgres + free domain for deploying their projects online. I use Github for publicly storing my "side-projects". Maybe the term sandbox is better.

I use it for my recipe API project.

 

But then I stopped.

 

Not sure why.

 

Maybe because deploying is not the major problem that needs to be solved...


But if I want to have a more scalable and reliable model for my project - I need to prepare.

There are 2 major players in the field. 

"Cloud Whales" -- AWS and Google Cloud can help you as a startup founder. If you are bootstrapping, both have hard-to-pass plans for startups.

 

You can start breaking things without paying bills.


Currently, AWS rules for the Maker/BUIDLR community. A lot of us use it for quick sandbox setups. 

Tons of boilerplates are available to deploy your docker image at some random URL in 2 minutes.

 

And it's huuuuuge.


Imagine the same pace 10y ago.

On the other hand, Google has their own set of cool features. Machine learning tools for example are their biggest draw. I will be diving deeper into it sooner than later.

I love Google Identity. But I want to try Amazon Cognito too. Because I hate to code sign up forms ;) 

One more thing.

Amazon has less "human" support. Maybe it varies from case to case. Not sure.

When I reach a Google Startup's representative - they are very polite to me and try to help me truly. I wanted to use their OCR service for parsing grocery lists from Pinterest

I ended up moving away from that project so my application was rejected.

BUT! the Google Support Team gave me a lot of their personal time. Thanks for that!

 

When I need Inspiration, I Watch Keynotes.


It always works like a RedBull for me. If you like me - you should watch Google Cloud Onboarding Livestreams next week. Sign up for free, add to your calendar and login on the 28th of November.

I just started my relationship with the "cloud". And the best way for me to learn? I read insights from experienced engineers.

So here we have a great collection of articles below. If you miss some of these stories before - let us read them together!

I'll be happy to read some of your stories as well. I bet you have something unique to share, so it's a great opportunity to be a contributor on Hacker Noon.

Simply create an account, and join 8000+ contributors sharing their knowledge and expertise with the rest of us.

Maybe you'll get featured on our next newsletter too.

Go and read them or I'll delete your Facebook account!.. lol. jk.

Packing AWS SDK in Deployment Artefact - Does it Help to Your Infrastructure

The built-in AWS SDK is often out-dated and missing security patches and bug fixes. It invalidates integration tests since the runtime uses a different version of the AWS SDK to what was tested. AWS can update the built-in AWS SDK without notice

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @theburningmonk

 

Using LVM to Serve Old Laptop as a Cloud Storage Engine Service at home with all External Hard Drive

It is a storage device management technology which gives us the power to pool and abstract the physical layout of the component individual devices for easier and flexible administration. We can use to accumulate multiple storage system into a single groups and get a combined space.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @cprakashagr

 

How Does Google's Cryptographic Key Management Service Work?

This service, the Google KMS was released in 2017, in January and it is set to enable users the generation, use, rotation and destruction of AES – 256 encryption keys, also known as Advanced Encryption Standard which is there to protect the cloud data.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @nancy-j.-chavira

 

Test Your Blockchain On Google Cloud Using Hyperledger Caliper [A How To Guide]

Do not forget to stop your machines in Google Cloud after finishing the experiments or else 💸.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @rafaelbelchior

 

How To Deploy War File On IBM Cloud - A Guide for New Users

I was facing problem while deploying the war file on the IBM Cloud for the first time. I am not a DevOps person who knows about the servers as well.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @vinodkashyap

 

Severe Truth About Serverless Security and Ways to Mitigate Major Risks

Vendors protect databases, operating systems, virtual machines, the network, and other cloud components.  But they are not in charge of the application layer, which includes the code, business logic, data, and cloud services configurations. It’s up to the app’s owner to defend these parts against possible cyber attacks. 

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @Sachenko

Why Hybrid Deployment Could be the Best Solution for Better DevSecOps

The biggest drawback is that you must trust a third-party with your data. Many companies have regulations that will not allow them to store their data offsite. This is where cloud-based services hit a dead end.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @chaitanya_

 

Beyond Container Orchestration - Kublr's Approach to Kubernetes Infrastructure Abstraction

“the main reason behind Kubernetes' unprecedented success, is infrastructure abstraction and the convenience with which Kubernetes provides it with.”

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @twaintaylor

 

How to play PUBG on AWS

To get started, make sure you are in the AWS region closest to you, select Microsoft Windows Server to be the AMI and set the instance type to be g2.2xlarge. The instance is backed by Nvidia Grid GPU (Kepler GK104), 8x hardware hyper-threads from an Intel Xeon E5–2670 and 15GB of RAM.

  Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @mlabouardy
 

What Does the Future of Cloud Computing Mean for Media?

The amount of content we now produce, stream, watch online or download to our devices is mind-blowing. Each day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated in the digital sphere.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @sbludov

 

Subscribe SQS to a SNS topic in another AWS account with CloudFormation, and gotchas!

We are strong believers in Infrastructure as Code and having someone do the subscription steps manually is not going to work, especially given that we’ll be repeating this process in many places.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @theburningmonk

 

Open Season for Research: Alibaba Releases Cluster Data from 4000 Servers

In IT articles about internet applications, you will often find words such as “large scale” and “mass requests”. These applications all run in large-scale data centers, and readers generally have many questions about those environments. For example, what is the operating status of each machine in the data center? What kinds of applications are running?

  Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @alitech_2017
 

Writing Sky-high Applications: A Guide to Cloud Native Development

Traditional applications are often akin to snowballs that continue to accumulate functions, meanwhile becoming increasingly cumbersome and difficult to modify while falling out of step with the businesses they support as they evolve. By contrast, one of the primary goals of cloud native development is to enable rapid iteration, trial and error, and business innovation.

  Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @alitech_2017
 

What is Serverless and What it Means for You — Part 1

While Serverless offers a lot of benefits, implementing it successfully, alongside containers, comes with quite a few challenges — particularly for IT Ops. While Serverless speeds up development, it needs a Kubernetes cluster in order to run, and Kubernetes is notoriously difficult to deploy and manage.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @vamsi.chemitiganti

 

Getting started — Quebic FaaS Framework

The key difference between Quebic and existing FaaS frameworks is, With Quebic you can develop highly available back-ends to serve real-time and also supports to execute on-demand tasks. Most of the existing FaaS frameworks are most suitable only for executing on-demand tasks.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @tharanganilupul

 

Decentralizing the Cloud with Greg Osuri

In this episode we discuss DevOps, and what it takes to scale and run a decentralized infrastructure network.

Read full article or {TWEET_THIS} by @trentlapinski

Have a great day,
Arthur from Hacker Noon 👨‍💻

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