Category: Open Source

中文版 by Tapabrata Pal AWS customers have created many interesting and useful open source projects which should reach a wider audience. I’m very happy to be able to promote them on this blog. Here we feature a guest post by Tapabrata (Topo) Pal of Capital One. – Adrian Capital One is a top digital bank […]

The Southern California Linux Expo may be the largest and longest-running regional tech conference in the US. I’ve attended almost every year since 2012; I keep coming back for great talks and the warm, welcoming, friendly (and, notably, family-friendly) crowd. The event included SCaLE Kids, “a youth focused STEM event… where the free & open […]

We all want to build reliable systems, and some applications are more critical than others. However, how do you know you have actually built a reliable system? You have to test it and exercise its ability to be resilient to various types of failure. Unfortunately, the error handling code and failure handling procedures are usually […]

X-Ray SDKs AWS X-Ray Daemon Open Sourced The AWS X-Ray daemon is now open sourced and available on Github. Learn more about the daemon and AWS X-Ray. We look forward to seeing community contributions integrating X-Ray with other tools and tracing systems. AWS X-Ray SDK for Ruby (beta) AWS X-Ray SDK for Ruby (beta) is […]

中文版 Amazon, like many other companies, relies on the use of open source software. Every software project has different requirements, but almost all have a need to manage open source as third-party software dependencies. When working with large numbers of dependencies, it can often be complex and time-consuming to track down up-to-date licensing and author […]

中文版 Java developers have a vast selection of open source frameworks to build server-side APIs at their disposal: from Spring and Spring Boot to Jersey to Spark. Normally, these frameworks embed a servlet container engine, such as Tomcat, in the built package to run on a server. In the serverless world, AWS Lambda and Amazon […]

中文版 At AWS re:invent, Amazon announced Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), and revealed details of how container networking would work — and be secured — on this exciting new platform. In particular, EKS leverages a new AWS Container Network Interface (amazon-vpc-cni-k8s) plug-in, together with Project Calico for enforcing network policies. In this post, we’ll […]

中文版 Mesosphere in September of 2017 announced it was bringing back support for Kubernetes on its popular DC/OS cluster management solution. The beta release supported creating a cluster; you could then SSH tunnel into the nodes and deploy standard Kubernetes primitives to it. As of early January, support was officially added for the –cloud-provider flag, […]

FOSDEM：与欧洲最大的自由和开放源软件盛会开始全新的2018 FOSDEM is an annual free and open source conference for the software developer community. It’s managed by scores of volunteers and open source community members, and entirely free to attend. Every year, thousands of developers from all over the world head to Brussels, Belgium in droves to connect, share ideas, and collaborate. This year […]

Hacktoberfest, “a month-long celebration of open source software,” took place last October, before this blog was launched. A number of Amazonians participated, using the opportunity to contribute to work-related projects, passion projects, or both. At the start, their open source experience ranged from neophyte to veteran. Thanks to Hacktoberfest, all have now contributed (and earned […]