Software Engineer based in New Zealand
Functions as a Service is a really neat way of implementing serverless functions with Docker. See how to deploy a FaaS function to a remote Docker Swarm!
Open Functions as a Service or OpenFaaS (lead by Alex Ellis) is a really neat way of implementing serverless functions with Docker. You can build out functions in any programming language and then deploy them to your existing Docker Swarm.
Find out how I went from learning to program with a Raspberry Pi to deploying distributed apps & services on servers in different locations!
When I was 12, I was given a Raspberry Pi. For the first couple of days, it was really fun. After I had browsed the web for a while and played a bit of Minecraft, it sat in it’s box for a few months. I really had no idea what to do with it. That was until I discovered that I could build a website with it.
How should we show the load across a Raspberry Pi Docker swarm? A cardboard monitor of course!
Although the PiGlow visualisation of CPU usage was pretty, we reckoned we could go a couple of steps further and integrate a much more complete tangible solution - a hardware-driven load monitor dashboard.
My father, Ben Anderson plays with numbers. As his Twitter bio says “big data, small data, open data, any data”. He works with R a lot and has been persuading me to take a look at it. I’ve held off until now because I’m all for analysing data in real time (primarily using delightful JS libraries such as Chart.js and D3.js). As far as I understood it, R is geared towards static data analysis and because of that, is able to utilise the hardware it runs on to optimise…
Note: Healthy was launched about 5 months ago but I’ve only just got around to writing this post.