Running Docker on Ubuntu
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently, I install Docker on Ubuntu. Installation was quite straightforward but when I tried to run a command, it spat an error back at me that had me perplexed.
Software
An introduction to disk partitions
Reading Time: 4 minutes Partitioning enables logical separation of data.
Using Xcode for OpenCV projects
Reading Time: 2 minutes OpenCV is the most mature computer vision library in the world. Xcode is the best IDE on macOS. OpenCV is written in C++ and various bindings (first- and third-party) exist for most popular language. I prefer to work in C++. Although Xcode has excellent support for C++ projects, getting it to play nicely with OpenCV is rather tricky.
Understanding SOAP
Reading Time: 5 minutes Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a RPC-style web service protocol.
Primer on GitHub Actions
Reading Time: 2 minutes With GitHub Actions one can build end-to-end continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) capabilities.
API Gateway + Lambda
Reading Time: < 1 minute API Gateway is a fully managed service to create, publish, maintain, monitor and secure APIs. Lambda is a function-as-a-service product. The two can be combined to create serverless, cost-efficient and infinitely scalable APIs.
Kubernetes
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kubernetes is a software system that allows one to easily deploy and manage containerised application on top of it. Its aim is to provide best possible utilisation of your hardware (metal and virtual) resources while still maintaining complete isolation of hosted applications.
Docker
Reading Time: 4 minutes Docker is a platform for packaging, distributing and running applications. It allows you to package your application together with its whole environment.
Containers
Reading Time: 3 minutes When an application comprises a handful of large components only, it's completely acceptable to give a dedicated virtual machine (VM) to each component and isolate their environments by giving each their own operating system instance.
The case for microservices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Monolithic applications consist of components that are all tightly coupled together and have to be developed, deployed and managed as one entity. Running a monolith typically requires a small number of powerful servers that can provide enough resources for running the application.