HPC Cloud services built on the latest Intel architecture, Skylake Xeon processor, are now powering Google compute engine and can serve as your next-generation HPC platform. Hear how customers are starting to consider hybrid strategies to increase productivity and lower their capital expenditure and maintenance costs. Learn how to adapt this model to meet the increasing HPC and data analytics needs for your applications. Find out how high performance computing via multiple PAAS providers using Intel’s latest technology seamlessly brings these advantages to HPC management and users.…
AWS Certification Exam : 9 Online Education providers which you can use
AWS certification exams are quite popular and in demand. AWS is an open cloud provider with largest market share.
Certification gives you any benefits or not, is always a debatable topic. I am not going into that aspects of certifications, in my view, if you do not see any value in certifications, you can still use them as a benchmark of your own learning journey.
Amazon has multiple certification exams under four categories. These categories are Architecting, Developing, Operations and Specialties. …
AWS architect : What an architect does?
An architect is a person who is responsible for how development team will come out with product. He handles how different components will talk to each other, he even decides what different components will be used to produce stable and secure product.
So, architect is generally responsible for : –
- What different components will be used?
- How those components will interact with each other?
- How an application will handle fail over and downtime of any specific component.
- He is the person who is normally involved with the project since very early phase.
9 things you need to know about Java 9
Java 9 has been released in the market. It has lots of new improvements and additions. In this article, I am enlisting 9 things of this major release.
- Introduction of Jshell
Now, java has joined the league of languages with a shell. Languages like python, ruby and R were having a handy shell in which we can evaluate our code on the fly. Now java has introduced Jshell using which we can eval our java code easily. The jshell tool provides an interactive command-line interface for evaluatin declarations statements and expressions of the java programming language.…
VMware on AWS : What you need to know?
In August 2017, AWS launched VMware for Amazon Cloud service after one year of work with vmware. It was announced at VMworld. It was in beta access since sometime for some selected customers.
Now you can take your VMware load to AWS while still managing your inhouse cloud operations. In this article, I am enlist some of the highlights of this service.
1. Currently it available in only US west (Oregon) region.
2. You can bring your existing licences with you while moving your load to this service.…
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10 differences between AWS and Google Cloud
(This webinar was recorded four years ago, so some of the points are outdated. I am working on the latest version of this webinar and will update the blog accordingly- Zareef Ahmed)
AWS is market leader in open cloud space but other players are making inroads into its market share. Google cloud is one of them. In this talk, we are going to cover 10 differences between Google Cloud and AWS. Major focus is on the features which covers common use cases.…
3 things you need to know about AWS Migration Hub
AWS Migration has been recently announced by AWS. This is a service which you can use to migrate your applications to AWS. This service can be used to track status of application migrations. In this article, I am compiling 3 things you should know about it.
Availability
This service is not available in all regions. At the time of writing this article this is only available in US West (Oregon) region only. It can only interact with migration tools and give you a single window to manage those.…
How to deal with cache nightmares?
Internet is the place where data is being generated at one place (usually servers) and then being served to the client through browsers and mobile apps.
Lots of machines are involved in transferring this data from origin to destination. To improve user experience and to save computing resources, developers use caching.
I will not go into details of the definition of cache as you already must to be aware of the cache if you are reading this article. To understand it better you can visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_(computing)…
7 Devops tools which you should know to create a productive devops culture
Let me state it in start without any introduction. Devops is a culture of practices. It is not a tool. In fact, it is a set of processes for which we use different type of tools, so we can create the culture we want to follow in our organisation or project life cycle. There are lots of open source or proprietary tools to service our devops strategies.
Devops is a combination of rituals as well as tools to do those rituals.…
Is a knowledge of Hadoop required to learn Spark?
You need to understand some basic differences between hadoop and spark.
One of the major difference is file system. Hadoop has HDFS while spark does not have any native file system associated with it.
So, you can run spark without hadoop in theory., but you need something to handle data. HDFS is one of the best choice for this task, in that case, you need to know the basic of Hadoop to get good results from Spark.…
Why do we use a token concept in PHP?
Question is not specific to PHP only, it is generic for Web development, language will not matter.
PHP has session tokens through which server will identify the session id of a specific user, (this is similar to many other languages). These tokens can be sent via cookies or via embedding in urls. In terms CSRF attacks, urls one are much better but these also expose many other security issues as token is embedded automatically (if you did not change your ini settings) to urls.…
Devops for QA : Is programming required?
Recently I got this query
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I am working as a Testing team lead in manual testing so i don’t have a programming knowledge. Now, I want to learn DevOps. Before join in this course i want to clarify my doubts.
1. Is it possible to learn as a manual tester because I don’t have a programming knowledge?
2. Do I need to write or implement more coding or scripts?
3. Once I finished DevOps course and certification, can I work and perform well?…
Cloud Security : One mistake that can close down your cloud operations in few minutes
Few days back, I was in a discussion with a senior person. Our discussion was centred around cloud and security. We talked about lots of common and obvious processes and measures we can take for security of our applications on different platforms including but not limited to Amazon EC2, Azure and Google Cloud.
After discussion, I thought that I should write about most important thing in cloud security, which if not considered in your security plan, can be the reason of closure of your company in few minutes if not seconds.…
What is the best Linux software to monitor web traffic on router?
am assuming that you want to log and monitor the traffic which is passing through a hardware router.
Your question seems incomplete to me because at router level, it is difficult to decide if data which is being transferred is for web or something else.
You can treat all TCP/IP data transfer as web data or to be more precise, you can treat data passing through port 80 as web data. ( As port 80 is default http protocol), but technically speaking http server can listen on any available port.…
How to handle checkout when we are selling unique products?
Checkout process for unique product has to be handled in different way than products which are available in quantities. Products with one quantity are unique product. Paintings, concert tickets, hotel rooms, flight tickets ( when you choose a specific seat) are unique products. Old household items are also unique items.
We have two types of process for processing any purchase. In first type, we can do cart based checkout where a user usually add more than one product to their cart.…
