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Google Cloud Next '18 just concluded yesterday, and I would like to highlight a few talks I found interesting below. Before I get started, I just wanted to say how amazing it is that talks from conferences like Google IO, Amazon Re:Invent, PyCon, and of course Google Cloud Next …

A look at asynchronous programming in python 3.6, including asyncio, concurrent.futures, and how to mix the two.

Taking a long hard look at Google Cloud Platform today, I posit that it is turning the corner from being a niche service to a general purpose enterprise class service.

AWS offers a service which is so useful and inexpensive that it overcomes my aversion towards vendor lock in. That service AWS Key Managment Service (KMS).

I recently saw Hidden Figures which is a remarkable movie about the role African-American women played in the early American space program. These women were on the leading edge of breaking barriers for both women and African Americans. Given that they were on the leading edge it is logical to …

In this blog entry I have two updates:

Update the First: AuthHub

I have moved the AuthHub Demo server from AWS to DigitalOcean for two reasons. The first is the update from docker-machine v0.4 to v0.5 caused some issues for me, and I decided to move away from …

It's been a while since I wrote my last docker related post and even longer since I last discussed docker on AWS and a lot has changed since then. For production deployment there are now the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) as well as Google Container Engine (GCE) which can …

Using the AuthHub service is meant to be simple. In order to help you learn about it, I have set up a demonstration service available at https://demo.authhub.net/. The demonstration server is slightly different than a production server in the following ways:

1. I have disabled password updates so …

Over the last several months I have been working on a project with two somewhat conflicting goals:

• Create an authentication service which is secure.
• Create an authentication service which is easy to use.

I believe I have achieved that goal, and I call it AuthHub, and I want to say …

It is not an unusual occurrence for me to join a project that is already underway. In most of the projects I work on there are one or more network accessible services and one or more front ends. Each of the services and front ends are often the responsibility of …