Introduction OpenDaylight provides a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller that allows network engineers to programmatically direct network services via a Representational state transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API). When I...
Part Two of this HOWTO demonstrates how to secure your S3 hosted website with HTTPS. If you haven't completed part one yet, be sure to click here. Once you complete this HOWTO, you will have a secure website, that Google approves, as seen in the...
This HOWTO demonstrates how to secure your Simple Storage Service (S3) hosted website via Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). While the S3 Representational State Transfer (REST) enpoint supports native HTTPS, an S3 bucket configured to...
I wrote this white paper a while back. This paper discusses the evolution from hierarchical to Flat IP Architectures for mobile networks. This information may be of interest to mobile network architects, especially in light of the emergence of...
In this HOWTO, I will demonstrate how to easily integrate the Google reCAPTCHA service into a Flask web application using Flask-WTF. The following cartoon depicts the end result. A Flask application server provides a simple (beautified) survey to...
In this HOWTO, we expand upon the simple Elasticsearch proxy we deployed in our first Lambda tutorial. In that tutorial, we showed you how to create a proxy in front of the AWS Elasticsearch service using a Lambda function and an API Gateway. We...
Introduction Last month, I followed the example of Full Stack Python and migrated this blog from Wordpress to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3). The S3 hosting approach gives me the following features: Global caching via...
From the land of Nintendo and Samurai comes Monacoin, a Japanese cryptographic currency based on Litecoin. If you look at www.coinmarketcap.com you will see that Monacoin increased about 30x in the past three months. I found it a bit challenging...
Caution! Math Ahead! For the Math-phobic, I explain how I crunch the test results in a math-free, simple and focused blog post here. I use math here, so this may be your last chance to escape! Still with me? Excellent! The bullets below outline...
Do you have big data chops? Quick, what do these three things have in common? Yankees, Giants, Rangers, Knicks What about these? Beatles, Monkees, Beach Boys Do you have an answer for each? "New York," for example, for the first list and "Rock...