Freshlex LLC (should) architect the reliable multicast infrastructure for the putative John Carmack biopic, which will hit the internet in December of 2018. The first blog post discusses two of the enabling technologies, FCAST and ALC. This blog...

Reliable multicast?!? How on earth can you guarantee transport using a unidirectional, asynchronous delivery method? Could you scale your solution to support ten million downstream users, each with a different capacity, varying from dial up to...

Welcome to the fifth part of this HOWTO, where we will call a remote web service to locate our test takers. Once you complete this HOWTO, you will have implemented the following architecture: To recap what we’ve done so far: Part One: Deploy an...

In HOWTO-1, we deployed an Amazon Web Service (AWS) Elasticsearch domain and connected to it via a combination of Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles, IAM profiles and the Boto library. In HOWTO-2 we deployed a Flask web server that...

In this tutorial you will: Connect a Flask server to the Bootstrap service Create a trivial Jinja2 template for a Quiz form Use Bootstrap to validate forms on the client side Use a Flask "flash" message to validate forms on the server side Let's...

In this tutorial you will learn The best* way to update an AWS provided Elasticsearch service index via an Internet facing web form *In terms of flexibility, security and ease of deployment How to deploy web forms in Flask How to get Flask to...

Step one of our journey connects EC2 to ES using the Amazon boto Python library. I spent more than a few hours pouring through the AWS help docs and pounding at my keyboard on my instances to figure out the easiest and most direct method to...

For my (post) masters project on machine learning and big data infrastructure I thought it would be fun to acquire my own data set. Last semester I traded available services and architected a scalable (big data) Internet facing survey...