Category Archives: Cloud

A lightweight Ubuntu, Snappy

Posted on March 2, 2015 by robertwilkie

Ubuntu has a new flavor of its release called Snappy, which is a lightwieght version of its distro.  Its goal is for VM’s, cloud based servers, and Internet of Things of course. http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/

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Google Cloud now allows you to handle credit cards

Posted on December 5, 2014 by robertwilkie

So you want to handle credit cards thru your web service, well apparently if you are using Google Cloud, they will do it for you.  I wonder if AWS will have something like this rolling out soon…. http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/02/developers-can-now-use-googles-cloud-platform-to-handle-credit-card-information/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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Amazon Drive gets an API

Posted on November 12, 2014 by robertwilkie

Remember a month or so back Amazon announced free storage for prime members for photos, well now the have an API developers can use to access those pictures.  Let the hacking begin! http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/11/amazon-cloud-drive-gets-its-own-api/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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Amazon gives Prime users unlimited free photo storage

Posted on November 5, 2014 by robertwilkie

Not so sure on this one, since like the gmail bit, I am putting photos up where Amazon can get to them…. http://lifehacker.com/amazon-gives-unlimited-photo-storage-to-prime-customers-1654430098

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automatic vent shutoffs with arduino (ish)

Posted on September 8, 2014 by robertwilkie

A father/daughter team basically built a system that is like NEST but for your heat vents.  So it will shut off/open vents as needed, thus saving the costs of heating/cooling your entire house.  Its using some arduino like clone for … Continue reading →

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Netflix opensources more security tools

Posted on September 4, 2014 by robertwilkie

Netflix released 3 more security tools for the cloud that they have built called “Scumblr” and “Sketchy”, plus the “Workflowable”.    Each one is a part of an IDS that is interesting on the aggressive techniques they use to see … Continue reading →

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I can see the custom local deliver apps already

Posted on August 22, 2014 by robertwilkie

Uber just opened up its API’s to developers (have to sign up from the looks of it) to use its services.  I can just see the next wave of apps that use this now.  Instant local flower delivery perhaps.  Could … Continue reading →

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Google has an import tool for AWS S3

Posted on June 24, 2014 by robertwilkie

Just became a little easier to move away from Amazon AWS.  Google now has an import tool to migrate data from AWS/S3 storage to Google.  Now if they only could do this with running instances in AWS…. http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/19/googles-new-cloud-import-tool-makes-switching-from-aws-easier/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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Unikernel

Posted on June 17, 2014 by robertwilkie

I started reading about Unikernels, a kernel built just for a particular task, lately.  Found this nice article that covers several different ones.  Mirage looks interesting. Why am I looking at this.  Well as the article goes on, it can … Continue reading →

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Google adds CoreOS

Posted on May 28, 2014 by robertwilkie

I have not heard of CoreOS (Linux distro) til now.  It looks interesting.  Its a lightweight Linux distro that sounds like its built for app development and cloud based systems.  Its on my download list to try out. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/23/google_loads_coreos_onto_its_cloud/

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