Flynn is a Platform as a Service that allows to deploy and scale applications easily. It is based on containers, it is open-source, and its pitch is: Throw away the duct tape. The first impression There are many ways to install the platform, using vagrant, or directly on a server. I chose to install it on AWS. The set-up is simple: through a custom web interface, you configure a CloudFormation template that is run on AWS: create the EC2 instances with the correct security groups…
Read moreOne of the most crucial questions to ask about the Internet of Things today is: does the IoT have a future despite its inherent lack of security? Studies show that despite the obvious acknowledgment that this ecosystem is full of security breaches that can endanger its functioning, companies' interest in IoT does not go away. Indeed, in a pragmatic dynamic, organizations opt for the undeniable contribution that these technologies bring on their business and their methods of work compared to the dangers generally accepted as…
Read moreIntroduction: We've all heard of Vue.js, the last trendy JavaScript framework. Some have already played with it. But beyond the POC, it's time to gear up for real life Vue.js projects. And what's better than some TDD with Vue.js to achieve that? The point of this article is to share the basics to develop with Vue.js using TDD. To do so, we will use a very simple component based on Vue CLI default template. We will add to it a few WebFront basic features: two…
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As I explained in the first part available here, I recently switched from Mobile development to WEB front end development. Last month has been full of learnings, let me describe them.
Read moreYou are an adept of Android App Links and you find wonderful being able to suggest your users to install your application or to redirect them from your website to your application with specific data relative to their requests? Well, forget (almost) everything you know. Since Google I/O last week, Google released to developers what comes as the biggest news in the Android development world: Instant Apps. Instant Apps are applications that can be executed instantly, from anywhere, without having to be installed on your…
Read moreIn modern Android development, there is a huge rise of advanced architectures like MVP, MVVM or Clean Architecture, crazy libraries like RxJava or Dagger and even new languages like Kotlin. But on most projects, theme and styles are still written in an oldschool way with no consideration on how to architecture them. But these XML are part of your code base and you should show them the same love you show to your Java Code.
Read moreOCTO is a great place to work and even greater place to grow. As an Octo consultant I'm used to learning and improving on a regular basis. Sharing knowledge is a central value of OCTO's culture. I have been told to always try to find a better way and to push the boundaries of knowledge. As sharing is a core value, I could help by sharing this new career path I've choosen. After 5 years spent in the iOS development field, I had the strange feeling that I wasn't…
Read moreIn Android, asynchronous tasks are done to avoid long operations in the main thread. Android documentation gives a good advice to the community to avoid ANR (Android Not Responding): Therefore, any method that runs in the UI thread should do as little work as possible on that thread. In particular, activities should do as little as possible to set up in key life-cycle methods such as onCreate()and onResume(). Potentially long running operations such as network or database operations, or computationally expensive calculations such as resizing…
Read moreFormerly known as the mdevcon, the Amsterdam conference related to mobile development - now called AppDevCon - took place on March, 17th. We had the chance to attend this edition in the Pathe Arena. Here is summary of what we have learned and our thoughts concerning some talks.
Read moreHey everybody, TL;DR I coded something in order to enforce strict tagging policies on AWS EC2 instances using Python and a bunch of AWS services (Lambda, Cloudtrail, SNS, and S3). If you keep reading, I’m going to talk to you about AWS Lambda and Serverless computing, or FaaS (Function as a service). You can check the source code and permission related template files here: https://github.com/sebiwi/broom If you want to use it, create a Cloudtrail trail, activate it on every region, create an S3 bucket to…
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