-
State of DevOps Report 2016
Puppet have released their latest “State of DevOps Report for 2016“. Having read the previous couple of years these reports give a good level of what is going on across the industries and effeminately worth downloading and reading. Highlights from the latest reports are: High-performing IT organizations deploy 200 times more frequently than low performers, with…
-
Configuring the Raspberry PI with Ansible and AWSCLI
I wanted to set up my Raspberry Pi with Ansible and the AWSCLI package to allow the creation of AWS servers from the Pi. As I was recycling a card I no longer needed reformatting the card and installing Raspbian on it seemed sensible start. I use the SD Formatter programme to ensure that the…
-
Taking the ServiceNow Administrator Certification
Its been a while since my last blog post, mainly because of studying to take an exam following a course on ServiceNow Administration so my mind has been on passing this. Getting back into taking exams has been an interesting process for me as I have been recently learning and practising what I have learnt…
-
Pi Zero gets a Camera
Raspberry Pi have just released another 30,000 Pi Zero Units to the marketplace. Finally I have managed to order one after having the Pi Zero on my wish list for sometime now. The demand for the Pi Zero has meant that they do not stay on the shelves long. This has created a high cost…
-
Apps – Why do you really need access to my devices camera?
How often do users of applications actually look at the permissions that are requested by an application during install or upgrade. I recently received an update to an application on my android phone that asked for additional permissions with the upgrade it was about to perform. The permission it wanted was access to the Camera,…
-
How do we use Docker?
Docker have released a their latest report and findings into how Docker is currently being used and the trends coming out.Docker 2016 Report. Some of the key findings from the report are below: What container orchestration and management solutions are you using/evaluating? 34% Docker Swarm 32% Google Kubernetes 29% Amazon ECS 21% None Key Finding…
-
Build 2016 Resources
Following the latest Build 2016 conference Microsoft have new released a number of resources and videos on Channel 9, providing 49 pages of videos and presentations. Lots of learning available.
-
Amazon Alexa Voice Service and Raspberry Pi 3
Following on from my last blog post “Raspberry Pi and Amazon Alexa Voice Service” I decided on a wet and windy Saturday to install Alexa Voice Service onto my Raspberry Pi 3. I followed the steps to install Alexa (https://github.com/amzn/alexa-avs-raspberry-pi) onto my Raspberry Pi 3 with some changes to versions of software to the latest…
-
Raspberry Pi and Amazon Alexa Voice Service
Amazon have released a step through guide that allows you to access the Alex Voice Service using a Raspberry Pi. This project demonstrates how to access and test the Alexa Voice Service using a Java client (running on a Raspberry Pi), and a Node.js server. You will be using the Node.js server to get a…
-
IoT Standards & Manifesto
Agile has had its own Manifesto (Agile Manifesto) since 2002 that has been signed by numerous people. IoT has now got its own Manifesto (IoT Manifesto). At a time of the growth of the IoT and lots of Standards Groups forming and guiding the way forward, there is a lot of ground to cover before an IoT…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Max Hemingway 