Welcome to this week's appops newsletter, which seems to be a bit all over the place: from ops for developers discussions to mucho serverless and Azure, security and a data processing toolkit; let's get at it:
- Janakiram MSV from TheNewStack has a nice introduction to OpenWhisk, IBMs open source serverless compute platform.
- Continuing the Function-as-a-Service track is Wolf Oliver who has written a great in-depth article on Serverless Architecture in short, via specify.
- Containers from Scratch is a low-level and deep step-by-step walkthrough by Eric Chiang, who's using the basic container building blocks like namespaces and cgroups and the shell to do containers. Exciting!
- A very insightful and partly controversial HN discussion on the topic if and to what extent developers should have ops experience.
- InfoQ has a nice article on Chaos Engineering.
- Mike Chaliy explains how to set up a private Docker registry using the Azure Container Registry.
- The 7 things to consider while moving to a microservices architecture by Manisha Sahasrabudhe is a concise and practical mini-guide for this topic.
- Your daily dose of security and how to improve it is, as usual, provided by the incredible J Wolfgang Goerlich: Stuck in Traffic - Grizzly Steppe.
- My former Mesosphere colleague Derrick Harris has gone back to covering IT with his new media outlet ArchiTECHt and here's a story I really like you to know about: Google, IBM back new open source graph database project, JanusGraph.
- Best and most constructive rant I've read for a long time: systemd Sucks, Long Live systemd.
- Although well hidden I'm pretty sure that's Brendan Burns here explaining the state of Kubernetes on Azure via Channel9.
- Now turning to tooling and announcements:
- BigGorilla—a Python-based data preparation, integration and cleansing toolkit.
- screwdriver.cd—while Yahoo! will soon be history, their build tool just made it out the (open source) door. Kubernetes and Docker Swarm-based continuos deployment as you like it.
- open-guides/og-aws—not directly a tool but a collection of practical (and honest) guides to using Amazon Web Services from and for practitioners.
- In less than 10 days, on Jan 24 there's a London Mesos User Group and I'll certainly be around.
- In a bit more than 14 days, on Feb 4 and 5 there's FOSDEM in Brussels and guess who else is there? :)
And that's it for this week—as I said, quite a mixed bag but indeed an interesting one. Hope you found the one or other gem in there and please keep up the sharing. I'm happy to spread the word!