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I love the Remote SSH extension for VSCode (save for the frustrating workarounds necessary for ssh-agent forwarding -- an absolutely necessary feature) and expected VSO to be much …

Semantic recently adopted my team's React adaptation as their official React port. It's lighter weight, eliminates jQuery, and all components are standard React components that can…

ECS is free in that you pay only for the EC2 nodes running your containers -- there's no need to host ECS or do scheduling on your own hardware to use it. It's also Availability Zo…

For one, hitting the Github API to put failed build markers against commits and PRs. CodeBuild doesn't appear to have the same Github integration that most other CIs do out of the …

The problem I've always had with audio interfaces is that input is not private. Requests on public transportation are heard by many. Requests at home turn into a conversation with …

If the goal is solely Docker images with a standard size in the 20-40MB range, this can be achieved without additional tooling. After switching our development and deployment flow …

We have an open source solution called Cryptex[0] to handle this. It's better explained by this blog post[1] that gives the thinking and configuration necessary for most scenarios.…

Depending on the data you're storing, you may be responsible for HIPAA compliance. Such a thing is possible on AWS[0], but is not provided out-of-the-box. [0]: https://aws.amazon.c…

Is there a basis for such an assumption? For an organization requiring the highest available security, the ideal solution would be a privately operated hardware security module kep…

This is certainly the case, however for an organization implementing best practices for code deployment, such a change would have to be peer-reviewed in the best case, or pushed di…

KMS is not a centralized secret database -- it's a hosted Hardware Security Module. There is no way to store your service's secrets in it for later retrieval, unlike the solutions …

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Fair point; I was speaking more toward the case of needing a rebuild any time your container gets changed, due to the change-on-run ethos of DevLab versus the change-on-build ethos…

Member of the DevLab team here :) Compose is actually part of the reason we wrote this tool. We tried so hard to make it make sense for a TDD workflow, but it was always cumbersome…

Just today I made a suggestion in a Github issue[0] to use sed for a similar use case. There, it was to generate an Amazon ECS task definition file from a CI tool's environment var…

I'd love to hear back if you find something like this. Up until Vers was released, I lazily boilerplated it into whichever of my services needed the functionality. Even so, the pat…

You answered that one yourself :) Deprecation means to publicly notify that some API endpoint has hit end-of-life, and that a better alternative is available. If you completely rew…

You're 100% correct -- interoperability is the key, but you ensure that by making sure everything at the interface layer (whether that's a REST API, a polled queue, a notification …

From your description, it sounds like your pain points don't come from versioning your microservice code; they come from versioning the data models that those microservices either …

ScummVM has been maintained on GitHub for a few years now: https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm The downloads are still on SF, though. That's unfortunate.

This article digs on the flattened dependency model like it's a huge weakness of Bower, but this is the _entire point_ of Bower. You include two models that both depend on two diff…

1. Node.js is (for the most part) single-threaded; that's its draw. It's not trying to be a swiss army knife, and if your use case requires a threaded language then Node.js certain…