4th AZ in Seoul Region

This week, AWS added a fourth Availability Zone (AZ) to the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, which launced its first AZ in 2016.  This fourth AZ provides customers with additional flexibility to architect scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available applications in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.

Now Seoul becomes the forth Region with over four AZs following US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). 4th AZ in Seoul region is accessible via AWS Management Console, command-line interface (CLI), and SDKs.

The launch of this new AZ brings AWS to 77 AZs within 24 geographic regions around the world.

.NET Porting in AWS

If you're Microsoft lover (like me), then this blog is good news for you in AWS cloud. DotNet Core is the future of .NET! Version 4.8 of the .NET Framework is the last major version to be released, and Microsoft is working towards 5.0 by end of this year.

Last week, AWS announced the Porting Assistant for .NET, a new tool that helps customers analyze and port their .NET Framework applications to .NET Core running on Linux. It assesses both the application source code and the full tree of public API and NuGet package dependencies to identify those incompatible with .NET Core and guides developers to compatible replacements when available.

Porting Assistant for .NET identifies incompatible .NET Core APIs and packages from your .NET Framework applications, and finds known replacements reducing the manual effort of searching for replaceable packages and APIs.

This framework works in 3 stages as depicted. 1. Scan, 2. Assessment, 3. Assisted porting

Make in India

COVID-19 lock-down created a huge difference in the social life across the world. Even enterprise shifted to the virtual office space via work from home. Most people are working/living remotely and so the social media applications plays a vital role in the current global virtual environment.

With Two-Factors drive of Make in India & Anti Chinese, India recently promoted the highly competent products like

• JioMeet vs Zoom
• Elyments vs WhatsApp

Video Conference
2 days back, Reliance Jio has launched its own video-calling platform called JioMeet in India.

After 40 minutes a new and fresh meeting has to be started in Zoom.  But, JioMeet comes into play as it will allow users to attend a continuous meeting for up to 24 hours. Both allows up to 100 concurrent participants in the same meeting. Reliance claims the usage of zero Chinese infrastructure in their platform.

Social Media App
Yday, India’s Vice President launches a social media super app Elyments, which will take on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. 

Elyments is a comprehensive social networking app that is literally a one-stop-app for everything you might need. Connect and converse with friends, share updates, network with like-minded people, discover interests, make seamless voice and video calls, and much more with Elyments.

Start up India initiative is really paying back the nation !

Alternative Economy

Today's blog is a deviation from my regular technical blog; it's about 'Alternative Economy' With recent reading, here's a brief of what I learn.

Addressing alternatives is quite popular during these competitive days; it is termed as 'differentiate'.  It applies to perform the alternatives of mainstream capitalism economy. In a nut shell, non-capitalist practices permeate peoples’ everyday life, where as modern capitalism disrupt the life style on wealth only focus.

"Churning the Earth: The Cost of India's Growth" provokes my motherland's economy insight.

In alignment with internet visual source, You tube channels reference are
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgOiTjo_5CvzK9I_1JIHtxw/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2H0TKdeiuo

The attached diverse economies framework depicts the identification of economic activities in a particular locality and for approaching the relatedness of different elements in any given practice or social location (Healy 2009). It challenges hegemonic visions of normative capitalist development and opens up the possibility for alternative localized development pathways.

Stay open minded, Things aren't always what they seem to be. Right fit for the current scenarios across the world - including Economy.

PS: Dedicated to my class mate Partha for his trigger & thought process.

Snow cone

AWS Snowcone weighs 4.5 pounds and includes 8 terabytes of usable storage. It is small (9″ long, 6″ wide, and 3″ tall) and rugged, and can be used in a variety of environments including desktops, data centers, messenger bags, vehicles, and in conjunction with drones. It runs on either AC power or an optional battery, making it great for many different types of use cases where self-sufficiency is vital.

The device enclosure is both tamper-evident and tamper-resistant, and also uses a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) designed to ensure both security and full chain-of-custody for your data. The device encrypts data at rest and in transit using keys that are managed by AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and are never stored on the device.

Like other Snow Family devices, Snowcone includes an E Ink shipping label designed to ensure the device is automatically sent to the correct AWS facility and to aid in tracking. It also includes 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, wired or wireless access, and USB-C power using a cord or the optional battery. There’s enough compute power for you to launch EC2 instances and to use AWS IoT Greengrass.

Snowcone is used for data migration, content distribution, tactical edge computing, healthcare IoT, industrial IoT, transportation, logistics, and autonomous vehicle use cases.

CI CD Impediments

Most of you know the definition and concepts around it.  Let me raise a different question - how it is misunderstood?

Impediments to true Continuous Delivery fall into three categories:

1. Process: Your process involves many manual blockers, including QA and manual deployment.
2. Behavioral: Your managers or engineers lack confidence. They’re not sure whether defects will be caught before merging or whether their team can respond to issues uncovered after deployment.
3. Technical: Your current tooling is either lacking, too slow, or breaks frequently.

Major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google) come up with few out of box solutions for CI/CD in fully automated way.

The attached snap explains end (source code) to end (production) pipeline blockers with automated process using their powerful tool set.

Cloud Practitioner

With the given work opportunity to play DevOps role for last 6 months, I was getting ready to certify in this space. 

Usually, I've consistent career development goals to explore new technology and its related industry certification per year. 

Today, got my AWS acclaim to be Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Here you go 2020! Next target: AWS Architect!