Category Archives: Cloud Computing

All posts and other data related to cloud computing, especially Amazon AWS service, Google App Engine etc..

GCP Goodies Part 2— Google Deployment Manager with Kubernetes Type Provider

In the first part of GCP Goodies series (link here), I have written about the basics of deployment using simple yamls as well as Python/Jinja templates which you can use to write your Infrastructure as Code in more flexible way. But the Deployment Manager doesn’t stop there, it has a very powerful mechanism for managing […]

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GCP Goodies Part 1 — Google Deployment Manager Basics

Once you start setting up cloud infrastructure consisting of more than a single server and a database you will realize the importance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Terraform, Puppet, etc, among many others. Recently, within a project I work on, we have moved all our infra to Google and its cloud offering, […]

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Access Control System with Raspberry Pi, RFiD and AWS Rekognition

Published at: https://softwaremill.com/access-control-system-with-rfid-and-amazon-rekognition/

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Upgrading AWS “Deep Learning AMI Ubuntu Version” to TensorFlow 1.1.0 with GPU support

Published at: https://softwaremill.com/how-to-upgrade-aws-deep-learning-ami-to-tensorflow-1-1-0/

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Amazon Machine Learning Service initial tests

Today I have executed some simple test against Amazon AWS Machine Learning service. The idea was simple: take the MNIST dataset available on Kaggle.com divided into train and tests datasets, push it to Amazon S3 and run it through Amazon Machine Learning service to see what happens. I have intentionally left all the defaults (although […]

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Easy ‘curling’ with Httpie

Sometimes there is a need to quickly test some web service if its responding correctly to the given data, that is especially true when using a new REST service you haven’t worked with before and just want to try it out. Using curl is not always as fun as it could be because of multiple […]

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Machine Learning and Kaggle Digit Recognizer Competition

This is a rather introductory article to Machine Learning and using one of the freely available libraries to predict a value of some entity using classification mechanism. For those interested in Machine Learning and just starting their endeavours into that field I would like to mention a great place to start using your acquired theory […]

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Big Data analysis with Hadoop, Pig and Stack Exchange data dump

Finally I have finished my latest pet project. I was learning Pig and Hadoop but most importantly I was trying to learn how to finish things. As with most of my pet projects, I start small hoping I will finish that, get smth useful and have something to write about, but usually I never stop […]

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Google App Engine – Searching with JDO

How to perform a search in the Data Strore when there is nothing like ‘LIKE’ keyword available? This is a short code snipped allowing you to search the data in your Google App Engine data store. List<User> locs = new ArrayList<User>();         Query query = pm.newQuery(User.class);         query.setFilter("name >= […]

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Apache Click on Google App Engine – Hello World Example

Hello World! If this blog would run on App Engine and was build with Apache Click I could finish this tutorial right here :). But more seriously, I will describe short step by step tutorial on how to get started with Apache Click on Google App Engine. I’m assuming that you have GAE plugin for […]

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