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Monitoring your home temperature – Part 2: Setting up Azure
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Monitoring your home temperature – Part 2: Setting up Azure

Now we need to setup the Azure side and for that you need an Azure subscription. You can get a...

Monitoring your home temperature – Part 1: Setting up RuuviTags and Raspberry Pi
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Monitoring your home temperature – Part 1: Setting up RuuviTags and Raspberry Pi

We moved to a new house three years ago and since then, we have had issues with floor temperatures. It’s...

Stop murdering “Agile”, and be agile instead
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Stop murdering “Agile”, and be agile instead

“Agile Macabre” on techcamp.hamburg, Apr-2020 We keep hearing “Agile is Dead” – sceptics joking, shrugging it off, having had enough...

Getting started with ARO – Application deployment
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Getting started with ARO – Application deployment

This is the fourth blog post in a series focused on OpenShift and ARO.

Make Work Better by Documentation
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Make Work Better by Documentation

Sharing knowledge in a team is an ongoing challenge. Finding balance between writing documentation and keeping it up to date,...

Getting started with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)
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Getting started with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

Until recently ARO was a preview feature which had to be enabled – this is not necessary anymore.

An introduction to OpenShift
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An introduction to OpenShift

OpenShift is a turn-key enterprise grade, secure and reliable containerisation solution built on open source Kubernetes.

Introducing Google Coral Edge TPU – a New Machine Learning ASIC from Google
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Introducing Google Coral Edge TPU – a New Machine Learning ASIC from Google

Introducing Google Coral Edge TPU - a new machine learning ASIC from Google.

Kubernetes: The Simple Way?
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Kubernetes: The Simple Way?

The benefits of enterprise grade solutions in container orchestration.

How can you architect Serverless SaaS Applications on AWS?
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How can you architect Serverless SaaS Applications on AWS?

In my previous blog post I listed 6 key themes that separates successful SaaS vendors from the rest. In this...

Controlling lights with Ikea Trådfri, Raspberry Pi and AWS
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Controlling lights with Ikea Trådfri, Raspberry Pi and AWS

One of our developers build a smart lights solution with Ikea Trådfri, Raspberry Pi and AWS for his home.

Minimizing AWS Lambda deployment package size in TypeScript
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Minimizing AWS Lambda deployment package size in TypeScript

Our Senior Developer Vitalii explains how to significantly reduce the deployment package size of AWS Lambda functions written in TypeScript using webpack plugin. Described concepts can be applied to JavaScript functions as well.

Problems with DynamoDB Single Table Design
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Problems with DynamoDB Single Table Design

Single Table Design is a database design pattern for DynamoDB based applications. In this article we take a look at the complexity issues that emerge when applying it in practice.

Findings from AWS re:Invent 2019, Part 2
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Findings from AWS re:Invent 2019, Part 2

Read Petri Kallberg's picks from re:Invent Wednesday announcements!

Findings from AWS re:Invent 2019, Part 1
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Findings from AWS re:Invent 2019, Part 1

CTO of Nordcloud Finland, Petri Kallberg, shares his first thoughts after re:Invent keynote.

Modular GraphQL server
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Modular GraphQL server

Read about Kari's experiences with GraphQL modules!

Look ma, I created a home IoT setup with AWS, Raspberry Pi, Telegram and RuuviTags
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Look ma, I created a home IoT setup with AWS, Raspberry Pi, Telegram and RuuviTags

Read how Juha created his home IoT setup!

What We Learned at Full Stack Fest 2019
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What We Learned at Full Stack Fest 2019

Most interesting insights from Full Stack Fest 2019 in Barcelona!

Azure Cosmos DB – Multi model, Globally Distributed Database Service
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Azure Cosmos DB – Multi model, Globally Distributed Database Service

Want to explore the possibilities of Cosmos DB APIs? Here's a wrap-up of all 5 of them.

Unleash the Potential of Your Legacy Software with Application Modernisation
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Unleash the Potential of Your Legacy Software with Application Modernisation

A multitude of strategy alternatives can be used to tackle the business challenges of applications.

Administrating Cloud Databases
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Administrating Cloud Databases

New Nordcloudian story about career development and aspirations in (cloud) database administration.

A Glimpse into The Future  – Latest from Nordcloud Engineering
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A Glimpse into The Future – Latest from Nordcloud Engineering

We at Nordcloud Engineering like to share our findings and knowledge with other developers. Here are our latest articles about our projects with AWS CDK, Lambda, and Cognito.

Why not Both: Learning AWS and Azure Fundamentals Hands-On
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Why not Both: Learning AWS and Azure Fundamentals Hands-On

Becoming familiar with cloud fundamentals with two providers sounds like a daunting task, but it can also be very rewarding – especially if you're not going the usual way.

Tutorial: Setting up AWS in China
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Tutorial: Setting up AWS in China

When it comes to setting up an AWS account, China is quite the exception.