Welcome to this week's appops newsletter, which seems to be a bit all over the place: from ops for developersdiscussions to mucho serverless and Azure, security and a data processing toolkit; let's get at it:
Janakiram MSV from TheNewStack has a nice introductionto OpenWhisk , IBMs open source serverless compute platform. Continuing the Function-as-a-Service track is Wolf Oliver who has writtena great in-depth articleon 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 extentdevelopers should have ops experience. InfoQ has a nice article on Chaos Engineering . Mike Chaliy explains how to set up aprivate Docker registry using theAzure Container Registry. The 7 things to consider while moving to a microservices architecture byManisha 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 incredibleJ Wolfgang Goerlich: Stuck in Traffic - Grizzly Steppe . My former Mesosphere colleagueDerrick 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 usingAmazon Web Services from and for practitioners. In less than 10 days, on Jan 24there'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!