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).

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 …

Introduction

Ubuntu released a stable version of Snappy Ubuntu Core on April 21. Snappy Core is a minimalist operating system along the lines of CoreOS and Project Atomic. I've been using Debian and then Ubuntu for a long time now, so I decided to take a look at Ubuntu Snappy …