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We all want to build reliable systems, and some applications are more critical than others. However, how do you know you have actually built a reliable system? You have to test it and exercise its ability to be resilient to various types of failure. Unfortunately, the error handling code and failure handling procedures are usually […]

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ClearlyDefined: Crowdsourcing Open Source Project Data

中文版 Amazon, like many other companies, relies on the use of open source software. Every software project has different requirements, but almost all have a need to manage open source as third-party software dependencies. When working with large numbers of dependencies, it can often be complex and time-consuming to track down up-to-date licensing and author […]

Running APIs Written in Java on AWS Lambda

中文版 Java developers have a vast selection of open source frameworks to build server-side APIs at their disposal: from Spring and Spring Boot to Jersey to Spark. Normally, these frameworks embed a servlet container engine, such as Tomcat, in the built package to run on a server. In the serverless world, AWS Lambda and Amazon […]

Exploring the Networking Foundation for EKS: amazon-vpc-cni-k8s + Calico

中文版 At AWS re:invent, Amazon announced Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), and revealed details of how container networking would work — and be secured — on this exciting new platform. In particular, EKS leverages a new AWS Container Network Interface (amazon-vpc-cni-k8s) plug-in, together with Project Calico for enforcing network policies. In this post, we’ll […]

Bringing Cloud Provider Support to Kubernetes on DC/OS

中文版 Mesosphere in September of 2017 announced it was bringing back support for Kubernetes on its popular DC/OS cluster management solution. The beta release supported creating a cluster; you could then SSH tunnel into the nodes and deploy standard Kubernetes primitives to it. As of early January, support was officially added for the –cloud-provider flag, […]

FOSDEM: Kicking Off 2018 With Europe’s Largest FOSS Event

FOSDEM:与欧洲最大的自由和开放源软件盛会开始全新的2018 FOSDEM is an annual free and open source conference for the software developer community. It’s managed by scores of volunteers and open source community members, and entirely free to attend. Every year, thousands of developers from all over the world head to Brussels, Belgium in droves to connect, share ideas, and collaborate. This year […]

Amazonians and Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest, “a month-long celebration of open source software,” took place last October, before this blog was launched. A number of Amazonians participated, using the opportunity to contribute to work-related projects, passion projects, or both. At the start, their open source experience ranged from neophyte to veteran. Thanks to Hacktoberfest, all have now contributed (and earned […]

Open Source News Roundup: February 9, 2018

^ The Capital One Cloud Custodian Team Community Coding at the Cloud Custodian Code Day Capital One hosted their first ever community coding event at AWS re:Invent 2017, to bring current and aspiring contributors together in single location to spend a concentrated period of time hands-on with the code. Read more about it in the […]

Pipelines For Container Applications Made Easy with mu

中文版 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a great way to deploy containerized microservices. mu is an open source tool from Stelligent that makes it easier for developers to get started with microservices on ECS, by simplifying the declaration and administration of the AWS resources required for the ECS cluster, using a CLI. In addition, […]