Many legacy applications store state in files on disk. Therefore, using Amazon S3, an object store, is impossible by default. Using block storage might be an option, but it won’t allow access to files from multiple machines in parallel. Hence you need a way to share the files between virtual machines. With Elastic File System […]
Archives for April 2018
Electric Vehicle Charging Station that uses IOTA and blockchain unveiled in the Netherlands
World first Internet of Things Application (IOTA) electric vehicle charging station has been unveiled in the Netherlands. The Charging station designed by ElaadNL, a Dutch solar and wind power firm utilizes the IOTA’s Tangle technology for “feeless machine-to-machine communication.” The charging station is located at a business park in Arnhem Buiten campus. The park is […]
Behind the scenes of the EC2 network performance benchmark
What is the maximum network throughput you can expect from an EC2 instance of type t2.large? How much does the network performance increase when switching from a t2.large to m5.large instance? All these kind of questions are hard to answer, as AWS does not disclose the network capacity of all their instance types in detail. […]
Evolutionary Serverless Architecture: JeffConfg Hamburg 2018 talk
I want to share my JeffConf Hamburg talk with you: Evolutionary Serverless Architecture A system architecture often struggles to adapt to new requirements. Serverless architectures can evolve because the small building blocks are easier to replace. I demonstrate the concept with an example: our Slack bot marbot. marbot supports your DevOps team to detect and […]