Infrastructure Architects at Internet Service Providers (ISP), Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and Academic Institutions use the OpenDaylight (ODL) platform to command, control, monitor and automate computer networks. These Infrastructure...
OpenDaylight allows network engineers to control switches with high level intelligence and abstracted services. Before Ravello, your engineers needed to deploy physical switches or use Mininet in order to integrate and test OpenDaylight. Neither...
In this blog post I present an actionable, focused checklist for the bare minimum, required SEO. Search engines provide links to useful pages based on user queries. You want search engines to return links to YOUR web page. To improve your chances...
Relive the glory days of dumb terminals with your thousand dollar cellphone! Programmers used terminals, decades ago, to log into and execute commands on remote computer systems. The terminal provided a screen and keyboard to computer scientists...
Internet Service Providers (ISP), Cloud Service Providers (CSP), Data Center Engineers and Academics use the OpenDaylight (ODL) platform to tailor and automate computer networks. Professionals and Academics use ODL to execute several use-cases:...
I purchased the new 8BitDo M30 Bluetooth controller for my System76 (Ubuntu) Laptop. I connected the M30 to RetroPie and then noticed issues with button layout for certain Six (6) Button Sega Genesis games. In this blog post I will walk us...
Network Engineers use the OpenDaylight (ODL) platform to craft, deploy and manage interesting virtual network services. Internet Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers, Data Center Engineers and Academics use ODL to address the following...
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elasticsearch service provides GROUP BY operations via the aggregations, or AGGS, Application Programming Interface (API). GROUP BY and AGGS operations provide syntax to collapse rows with similar values into summary...
Operational document stores require backups for disaster recovery and data migration. Elasticsearch uses the term snapshot for their backups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a fully managed Elasticsearch service that includes both automatic...
Elastic Architects designed the distributed Elasticsearch platform to follow NoSql principles. In the traditional Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) world, SQL databases use GROUP BY syntax to group rows with similar values into...
In this HOWTO, I will describe the process to connect an Ubuntu EC2 instance to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) provided Elasticsearch Service via the boto3 Python library. This blog updates my incredibly popular original post on this topic which...
This blog post describes how to configure Flask to emit form data to your own personal Gmail account. You don't need to use Gmail, in fact, you can configure Flask to send data to any email account you have access to. This architecture uses...
InfluxDB provides an exciting Time Series database with tons of industry momentum and enthusiasm behind it. InfluxData, the parent company that distributes the product overhauled the classic InfluxDB service with their new InfluxDB 2.0 offering....
Flask, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM and S3 enable massively scalable web database applications. Flask provides a simple, Pythonic Model View Controller (MVC) framework to develop the application logic. Lambda and API Gateway provide pay-per-use...
I deployed my first web database application back in 2002 thanks to the seminal O'Reilly book Web Database Applications with PHP and Mysql by David Lane and Hugh E. Williams. In the past sixteen years, the industry developed tons of frameworks...
OpenDaylight allows cloud engineers to programmatically deploy, configure and control virtual network services. As written on the OpenDaylight website, ODL helps Internet Service Providers, Academics and Cloud Service Providers to enable the...
In this HOWTO, I will demonstrate a very quick and dirty method to transcribe customer service voicemails to text and emit the text to an Elasticsearch NoSQL document store. Once in Elasticsearch, you can search the voicemails for Keywords and...
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...
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...
All production databases require backups. The AWS Elasticsearch documentation states: Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) takes daily automated snapshots of the primary index shards in an Amazon ES domain... However, you must contact the AWS...
The RabbitMQ website provides instructions on how to install the service on CentOS and Ubuntu Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. While the Amazon Linux distro uses CentOS as a base, it is different enough to make installing RabbitMQ tricky...