Here’s a post I wrote for Scalyr’s Blog almost a year ago. Functions-as-a-service are a very useful technology, and I plan on writing more about it here, and how it can relate to IoT and especially robotics. AWS Lambda is one of the leading serverless architectures in the cloud today. It was first-to-market among the major cloud vendors, offers the most competitive pricing, and is employed by Netflix, one of the largest cloud service providers in existence.

Here’s a post I wrote for TestIm a while back. It’s more of a listicle than a tutorial, but looking into Python tools I wasn’t already familiar with was fun. A few weeks ago, we talked about automating tests. Now it’s time to take a look at six of the best Python test automation tools. The good news is that the Python standard library already includes excellent unit testing tools. You can go a long way toward setting up robust test automation using the language’s built-in capabilities.

More Ansible! I wrote this one for Cprime last year, around the same time as the other Ansible post. Enjoy! Ansible is an automation tool for cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and other IT operations. You can use it for simple tasks, like deploying and configuring software releases, or for managing complicated multi-tier environments. Ansible doesn’t need agents and works with existing security infrastructure, so it’s easy to integrate into an existing network.

I wrote this for Sensu last year. I had just finished a very large project with Ansible and loved working with it. So naturally the next gig required Salt…. Ansible is a powerful configuration management tool for deploying software and administering remote systems that you can integrate into any existing architecture. It relies on industry-standard security mechanisms and takes full advantage of existing operating system utilities. Ansible uses no agents and works with your existing security infrastructure.