Linus good taste code

What makes good taste? @ GitHub

"Linus Torvalds in an TED interview talked about the idea of good taste in code or what I like to call elegance. As one might expect from two slides meant to make a point during a talk, he omits a lot of details to keep it short and simple. This post digs into the specifics of his example (deleting an element from a list) and adds another example (inserting an element in a list) including working code."

"Linus: not good": has extra if statement

"Linus: good"

Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement

OpenStack: open source for private clouds

OpenStack - Wikipedia

"OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), whereby virtual servers and other resources are made available to customers.[2] The software platform consists of interrelated components that control diverse, multi-vendor hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. Users either manage it through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through RESTful web services."

Knative: k8s 4 serverless

https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/07/knative-kubernetes-serverless

web performance: GoLang vs .NET Core

Go represents strings as UTF8 encoded bytes, while Java and .NET use UTF16 in memory.
This means that by default for "western" languages, Go is likely using less memory.
But the raw speed depends on compilers and benchmarks... and .NET/C# is improving quickly...

Comparing AWS Lambda Runtime Performance across Go, .Net Core 2.0

Go vs .NET Core in terms of HTTP performance – Hacker Noon

Performance is a Key .NET Core Feature

.Net Core 2 and Golang – John Adams – Medium

Performance Improvements in .NET Core 2.1 | .NET Blog


Iris
"The fastest backend web framework for Go."



Announcing .NET Core 2.1 | .NET Blog

.Net core or node js? [We increased throughput by 2,000%] · Raygun Blog

Create Your Own Programming Language

A educational material (book, examples, screncast) to quickly learn to create a compiler (to JavaScript). Not new, but interesting, in particular with improvements of JavaScript and WebAssembly.

Create Your Own Programming Language

PEG.js – Parser Generator for JavaScript

PEG.js is a simple parser generator for JavaScript that produces fast parsers with excellent error reporting.

SimplyAhmazing/noor: A simple, yet aHmazing arabic programming language meant to light up your day @ GitHub

Do you have to know English to be a Programmer? - Scott Hanselman

links from:

Hanselminutes Technology Podcast - Fresh Air and Fresh Perspectives for Developers - Do you need to speak English to Code? Noor - An Arabic Programming Language with Ahmed Abdalla

Cloud providers size and growth

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/27/the-cloud-continues-to-grow-in-leaps-and-bounds-but-its-still-awss-world/amp/

WebAssembly illustrated

A cartoon intro to WebAssembly – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

Creating and working with WebAssembly modules – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog



WebAssembly with Lin Clark - Software Engineering Daily

Azure network security best practices

Azure network security best practices | Microsoft Docs

IoT: Jacuzzi + Particle + AWS

Episode 173: Nest CEO is out and Jacuzzi is in with the IoT – IoT Podcast – Internet of Things

Particle | Case Study | Jacuzzi Revients Hot Tubs with Particle

"With Particle’s professional engineering service, Particle Studios, Jacuzzi had the engineering fidelity they needed to deploy a cellular connected product to market in 6 months"

Particle LTE E Series - World's first industrial IoT hardware platform

  

Google Docs AI writter

https://qz.com/1335517/google-docs-is-finally-catching-up-to-microsoft-word-20-years-later/amp/

grammar-check feature for Google Docs and an expansion of its “Smart Compose” tool for Gmail and Hangouts, which automatically suggests responses based on a message’s content. ...

Google is treating bad grammar like a translation problem. Instead of translating from, say, French to English, Google Docs will now be able to translate improper English to proper English

Go Cloud

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/24/google-wants-go-to-become-the-go-to-language-for-writing-cloud-apps/amp/

The Google-incubated Go language is one of the fastest growing programming languages today, with about one million active developers using it worldwide. But the company believes it can still accelerate its growth, especially when it comes to its role in writing cloud applications. And to do this, the company today announced Go Cloud, a new open-source library and set of tools that makes it easier to build cloud apps with Go .


https://github.com/google/go-cloud

web email CSS callenges

Martijn Cuppens on Twitter: "The div that looks different in every browser https://t.co/hXmxoLA8fW… "

same CSS, widely different results

Extreme Remote Work - MS Dev Show Podcast

Brian Kernighan: origins of ‘grep’

Brian Kernighan Remembers the Origins of 'grep' - The New Stack

tool: SQL Fiddle

SQL Fiddle

SQLFiddle:Demo and Testing for SQL Databases



similar tool:

JSFiddle: JavaScript Test and Demo Environ

Surface Go

Introducing Surface Go - YouTube

Like iPad running Windows

Surface Go - Mobile Workstation Laptop - Microsoft
optional LTE and starting at 1.15 lb, $449




https://gizmodo.com/the-microsoft-surface-go-is-practically-perfect-1828045097

Alexa with Raspberry Pi, or any computer

It is interesting that Alexa web service is accessible.

Alexa @ GirHub

Making An Alexa Raspberry Pi – JEFF BLANKENBURG


Raspberry Pi · alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app Wiki @ GitHub
"step-by-step instructions for setting up AVS on a Raspberry Pi. It demonstrates how to access and test AVS using our Java sample app (running on a Raspberry Pi), a Node.js server, and a third-party wake word engine. You will use the Node.js server to obtain a Login with Amazon (LWA) authorization code by visiting a website using your Raspberry Pi's web browser.
For instructions on how to set it up on Mac, Linux or Windows, please see our wiki."
There is even an alternative from Microsoft, but no much activity...
Microsoft/cortana-samples: Code samples for Cortana extensibility. @ GitHub

Ballerina: Cloud Native Programming Language for Microservices

Ballerina Language with Tyler Jewell - Software Engineering Daily
80 people team dedicated for making this open source tool

Home - Ballerina.io


Ballerinacon

WSO2 | The Open Source Technology for Digital Business

Events

cloud: Data Transfer Project by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project - The Verge

"Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter joined to announce a new standards initiative called the Data Transfer Project, designed as a new way to move data between platforms. In a blog post, Google described the project as letting users “transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.”

The current version of the system supports data transfer for photos, mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks, drawing from publicly available APIs from Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Remember the Milk, and SmugMug.

...

The existing code for the project is available open-source on GitHub, along with a white paper describing its scope. Much of the codebase consists of “adapters” that can translate proprietary APIs into an interoperable transfer, making Instagram data workable for Flickr and vice versa."

Microsoft Planner vs Trello

https://products.office.com/en-us/business/task-management-software

https://www.getapp.com/project-management-planning-software/a/trello/compare/microsoft-planner/

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3244466/collaboration/microsoft-planner-a-trello-rival-benefits-from-office-365-integration.html

https://awecomm.com/Blog/2016/12/08/pros-and-cons-microsoft-planner-vs-trello/

Azure Service (Fabric) Mesh

A "new" buzzword for cloud: Service Mesh

Azure Service Fabric Mesh preview

• Azure Service Fabric Mesh documentation
• Azure Service Fabric Mesh samples
• Azure Service Fabric Mesh pricing

Service mesh | Technology Radar | ThoughtWorks

How to choose and deploy a service mesh - O'Reilly Media


https://pages.buoyant.io/Oreilly-Service-Mesh-Book.html

"In cloud native architectures, your network becomes the fundamental determining factor for how your applications behave at runtime. The shift to microservices solves many problems, but it also introduces a new set of reliability, performance, and security challenges inherent to managing distributed systems. The service mesh helps you wrangle that complexity by providing a uniform way to manage, monitor, and control your production applications."


Kubernetes Service Mesh

AWS Summit New York 2018

AWS Summit New York 2018 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels and Dr. Matt Wood - YouTube



AWS Global Summits 2018


Dr Matt Wood, AWS | AWS Summit NYC 2018 - YouTube


AWS Cloud9 Amazon Web Services

ML with IoT Edge

Machine Learning - Machine Learning with IoT Devices on the Edge @ MSDN Magazine

example described: "smart traffic intersection. ... four video cameras connected to an Internet of things (IoT) device with a small CPU, similar to a Raspberry Pi. The cameras send video frames to the IoT device, where they’re analyzed using a machine learning (ML) image-recognition model and control instructions are then sent to the traffic signals. One of the small IoT devices is connected to Azure Cloud Services, where information is logged and analyzed offline.
...
The demo programs described in this article (a Python program that uses the CNTK library to create an ML model, a C program that simulates IoT code and a Python program that uses an ELL model"

The controller device described in article could be Azure Sphere
Microsoft CNTK has some advantages, but is a bit less "popular" than Google's TensorFlow library.
And for Microsoft developers, having C# (Core) option may be preferred to Python.
Anyway, an interesting article. 

cloud K8S: GKE vs AKS vs EKS

GKE vs AKS vs EKS – Hasura

Google Container Engine (GKE) by Google Cloud Platform,
Azure Container Service (AKS) by Microsoft Azure and
Elastic Container Service (EKS) by Amazon Web Services.

Google Flutter: Dart + Skia = mobile future!

Two excellent, very informative technical podcast interviews!

technical background, from users perspective:
Flutter in Practice with Randal Schwartz - Software Engineering Daily

technical background, from creators and project lead perspective:
Flutter with Eric Seidel - Software Engineering Daily

Flutter is created by extracting and re-purposing "essence" from Chrome engine, with intent to make universal mobile app platform, that can run natively on both Android and iOS.

How is this done? By using Chrome's high performance graphical rendering engine Skia as well as its text renderer.  Dart programming language is used for complete end-to-end platform, no "bridges" to

OS widgets renderer, like it done by React Native or Xamarin for example. The result is much better performance, simplicity, and less HW requirements: it could also run on IoT devices, for example.
So Flutter is using same code for running on all platforms, no need for different view layers.

Dart language is also very important. Created by same person, Danish computer scientist Lars Bak. He created Java's high performance HotSpot JIT compiler, that made Java really usable. Then created JavaScript V8 engine that made  web apps possible by improving performance 1000+ times. Dart is essentially what JavaScript could have been if it could break backward compatibility. It is type safe language, that can run with its own high-performance JIT VM, or it can cross compile to JavaScript to run in any web browser, or it can compile directly to native code for optimal mobile applications.

Google is apparently using Dart with Angular for its most critical business applications (for advertising), instead of previously used  Java Closure compiler that generated JavaScript from simplified Java code.

In parallel with Angular Dart Google also develops Angular TypeScript , that is very popular outside of Google. TypeScript is created by another very prominent Danish computer scientist,
Anders Hejlsberg. the "father" to Turbo Pascal, Delphi and Microsoft C#.


Flutter has potential to be a basis of Google Fuchsia, that could be a replacement of current Android platform.

So Flutter & Dart have potential to be a "big deal" in technology future.


Get Started: Install - Flutter

Write Your First Flutter App - Flutter

Flutter Tutorials - Flutter


a great podcast:
Software Engineering Daily

another interesting podcast:
FLOSS Weekly
"FLOSS all about Free Libre Open Source Software"

GoLand: IDE for GoLang by JetBrains

GoLand: Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE by JetBrains

GoLand is a new commercial IDE by JetBrains aimed at providing an ergonomic environment for Go development.

The new IDE extends the IntelliJ platform with the coding assistance and tool integrations specific for the Go language.

business book: Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied

The author of this new book studied from Clayton Christensen, author of
The Innovator's Dilemma. Interesting...

Amazon.com: Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied (9781610398817): Howard Yu: Books

"Every business faces the existential threat of competitors producing cheaper copies. Even patent filings, market dominance and financial resources can't shield them from copycats. So what can we do--and, what can we learn from companies that have endured and even prospered for centuries despite copycat competition?"

podcast interview with the author:

How Some Companies Beat the Competition… For Centuries

Professor Howard Yu releases new book on how companies stay successful

How Businesses Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied – Salvatore Cantale, Howard Yu - YouTube

MD Business Courses - Orchestrating Winning Performance

'Strategy And Leadership Go Hand In Hand,' Says Professor Howard Yu

Azure Virtual WAN: private cloud solution

Virtual WAN | Microsoft Azure

"Simple, unified, global connectivity and security
Automated large-scale branch connectivity
Unified network and policy management
Optimized routing using the Microsoft global network"

Virtual Network – Virtual Private Cloud | Microsoft Azure

ExpressRoute for Microsoft cloud connectivity | Microsoft Docs

SD-WAN enables a new cloud-first branch strategy | Networks Asia | Asia's Source for Enterprise Network Knowledge

The Surprising Secret To High-Performance Multicloud

GitHub MySQL cluster or clusters

A good use-case for upgrade to Azure Cosmos DB, when acquisition is completed?

Github Engineering Adopts New Architecture for MySQL High Availability @ InfoQ

"Github's infrastructure is spread out across multiple datacenters, consisting of around 15 clusters, close to 150 production servers and 15 TB of MySQL tables. Each MySQL cluster has a single master, which responds to write requests, and multiple replicas which serve read requests."

StackOverflow -= OpenID

OpenID Loses Major Proponent, StackOverflow @ InfoQ

"OpenID has lost one of its largest proponents. Stack Exchange, the company behind StackOverflow and other Q&A websites, will be completely eliminating support for OpenID on July 25, 2018. This continues a long running trend of websites eliminating OpenID from their offerings
...
only 13K users logged onto Stack Exchange in the last 12 months. This is out of over 9.5 million accounts, or “roughly one-tenth of a percent”

Tesla Solar vs Classic Solar roof

fancy solar is still expensive... until china starts making clones...

2018 Cost of a Tesla Solar Roof vs Solar Panels | EnergySage






Chinese Firm to Launch Glass Solar Roofing Tiles | Builder Magazine | Solar Power, Roofing
"Made of thin-film photovoltaics and high-transmittance glass, HanTiles from Beijing-based Hanergy could be a potential challenger for Tesla's Solar Roof. They can also replace conventional roofing."

Elon Musk's New Solar Roof Won't Save Tesla's Solar Business @ Forbes

Warren Buffett's Chinese battery giant BYD to take on Tesla in Australia | afr.com

book: WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

great podcast interview:
Future Projection with Tim O'Reilly - Software Engineering Daily


Amazon.com: WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us eBook: Tim O'Reilly: Kindle Store

Do More! What Amazon Teaches Us About AI and the “Jobless Future”


“Oracle of Silicon Valley” Tim O'Reilly on WTF: Do Work That Matters
@ Singularity FM podcast


the future of learning :)
can you fly that helicopter - YouTube



Gigaom | Voices in AI – Episode 51: A Conversation with Tim O’Reilly

Google Open Source

Google Cloud Platform Blog: Why we believe in an open cloud

"Top Google-initiated projects include:

• Kubernetes – container orchestration (github)
• TensorFlow – #1 machine learning repository on github
• BBR congestion control algorithm – your Internet just got faster (github)
• Open compute project rack – efficient data center for everyone (pdf)
• gRPC – high performance RPC framework (github)
• Bazel – continuous integration system (github)
• VP9 – royalty free video encoding format (project)
• Chromium – the most popular browser (github)
• Android – the most popular smartphone operating system (website)
• Golang -- develop simple, efficient and reliable software at scale (github)
• V8 -- high-performance JavaScript engine (github)"

Google Cloud Platform Blog: Kubernetes 1.11: a look from inside Google

link from:
Connected Games with Unity and Google Cloud with Brett Bibby and Micah Baker | Google Cloud Platform Podcast

apollo.auto: AI Open Source Autonomous Driving Platform

ApolloAuto/apollo: An open autonomous driving platform

"Apollo is a high performance, flexible architecture which accelerates the development, testing, and deployment of Autonomous Vehicles."

Apollo.auto

Including Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, Ford, Delphi, Bosch, Deimler, Jaguar/Land-Rover, Honda, Hyundai... and many Chinese companies... 

link from: .NET Rocks! vNext

tool: Jenkins

Jenkins

"The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project."

Jenkins (software) - Wikipedia

"Jenkins is an open source automation server written in Java. Jenkins helps to automate the non-human part of the software development process, with continuous integration and facilitating technical aspects of continuous delivery. It is a server-based system that runs in servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat. It supports version control tools..."

mobile AI: Google ML Kit

ML Kit for Firebase | Machine learning for mobile developers  |  Firebase

"ML Kit lets you bring powerful machine learning features to your app whether it's for Android or iOS, and whether you're an experienced machine learning developer or you're just getting started.

ML Kit gives you both on-device and Cloud APIs, all in a common and simple interface, allowing you to choose the ones that fit your requirements best. The on-device APIs process data quickly and will work even when there’s no network connection, while the cloud-based APIs leverage the power of Google Cloud Platform's machine learning technology to give a higher level of accuracy."

ML Kit with Brahim Elbouchikhi and Sachin Kotwani | Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Service Mesh: Linkerd

Which Service Mesh Should I Use? - The New Stack



"A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for managing service-to-service communication to make it visible, manageable, and controlled
...
The service mesh is implemented as infrastructure that lives outside of your applications. Its value is primarily realized when examining management of RPCs (or messages), but its value extends to management of all inbound and outbound traffic. Rather than coding that remote communication management directly into your apps, they can instead utilize a series of interconnected proxies (or a “mesh”) where that logic can be decoupled from your apps and unburden that responsibility from developers.

features:

• Resiliency features (retries, timeouts, deadlines, etc)
• Cascading failure prevention (circuit breaking)
• Robust load balancing algorithms
• Control over request routing (useful for things like CI/CD release patterns)
• The ability to introduce and manage TLS termination between communication endpoints
• Rich sets of metrics to provide instrumentation at the service-to-service layer"

Linkerd

Linkerd - What is Linkerd

What's a service mesh? And why do I need one? - blog.buoyant

hint from:

Build a Bank: Monzo with Richard Dingwall - Software Engineering Daily

Cloud: Static Website Hosting: Azure Storage, AWS S3

With Web SPA (Single Page Apps), there is often no need for full featured web server.
Hosting static web files is enough, in combination with cloud functions.
That is faster, safer, and much more affordable solution. Now also available on Azure:

Static website hosting for Azure Storage now in public preview | Blog | Microsoft Azure

"When you enable static websites on your storage account, a new web service endpoint is created of the form

..web.core.windows.net.

The web service endpoint always allows anonymous read access, returns formatted HTML pages in response to service errors, and allows only object read operations. The web service endpoint returns the index document in the requested directory for both the root and all subdirectories."

AWS S3 had the same feature for a while...

Hosting a Static Website on Amazon S3 - Amazon Simple Storage Service


Link from Azure Podacast
Episode 235 - AI, Blockchain and Big Data discussion

Azure IoT Edge + Kubernetes

Using K8S to manage deployment of containers to remote locations,
by connecting to IoT hub and IoT Edge via "virtual kubelet."

Manage Azure IoT Edge deployments with Kubernetes | Blog | Microsoft Azure

"...leverage the Virtual Kubelet project which allows Kubernetes nodes to be backed by other services and make direct use of Kubernetes primitives. We implemented an IoT Edge provider, depicted by blue boxes in the below diagram, that transforms Kubernetes manifests to IoT Edge deployment manifests. A IoT Edge manifest can use tags to target on-prem edge devices whose configuration can be updated with a single kubectl command"

Kubernetes integration with Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show | Channel 9

Microsoft launches Azure IoT Edge out of preview | VentureBeat

IoT Edge | Microsoft Azure