Embedded & Distributed

OCI is the industry collaborated effort to define an open containers specifications regarding container format and runtime - that is the official tone and is true. The history of how it comes to where it stands today from the initial disagreement is a very interesting story or case study regarding open source business model and competition. But past is past, nowadays, OCI is non-argumentable THE container standard, IMO, as we'll see later in the article it is adopted by most of the mainstream container implementation, including docker, and container orchestration system, such as kubernetes, Plus, it is particularly helpful to anyone trying to understand how the containers works internally. Open source code are awesome but it is double awesome with high quality documentation! Overview OCI has two specs, a Image spec and a Runtime spec. Below is the overview of what they cover and how they interact. Image Runtime | …

We talked about Cryptography Theory before, now let's put that in practice and see some widely used cryptography tool. GPG, GNU Privacy Guard, is an open source tool allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications. To recap, encrypt is to ensure confidentiality, and sign is to ensure integrity and nonrepudiation. Create key pair and share the public keyCreate a key pair$ gpg --gen-key gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.16; Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Please select what kind of key you want: (1) RSA and RSA (default) (2) DSA and Elgamal (3) DSA (sign only) (4) RSA (sign only) Your selection? 1 RSA keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long. What keysize do you want? (2048) Requested keysize is 2048 bits Please specify how long the key should be valid. 0 = key does not expire = key expires in n days w = key expi…

To understand what Blockchain is, we need to go a little bit low level and understand what is Transactionand Block. Transaction is also called record. It maps to a real-life event. Such as Rob pay Lucy $100; or Bin pays $100 for Roger Waters’ tour in Sydney 2018 (Yes, that’s true.) By contrast, Block and Blockchain are abstract entities that are used to making sure all the Transaction happened will be recorded permanently and once it is recorded it is trustworthy and unmutable, but without a centralized authority says so. Blockchain is, well, a chain of Blocks. The decentralized trust is the beauty and value of blockchain. And it’s power and usefulness is manifested by the success of the application out of which it is invented - BitCoin. With the power be decentralized, you don’t need to hand over your power and privacy to others in exchange for a service. If there is a distributed social network platform, probably you want to give it a try if you are concerned about your privacy with Fac…

AWS has numerous services and it’s easy to get lost for beginners regarding what is for what. Meanwhile, as an open source advocator, I’m always interested to know what are the open source alternatives. To be fair, without open source code, none of existing cloud computing and big data platform would even exist. Hence, I come up with the following table categorizing the key AWS services, each with a one-line interpretation; In addition, it also shows its corresponding OpenStack component, if there is one. Hopeful it’s helpful for you when either wandering through the AWS services or OpenStack one.

Today we will show you two end to end pipeline using AWS IoT Core and other AWS services. devices publish their status to the cloud, and cloud will process the events and write abnormal status to a noSQL database. device publish their status to the cloud, and we'll do real-time stream analytics on the events using Kenisis Analytics.