The Best of the Week (Apr 03): Cloud Zone

Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the Cloud Zone (April 03 - April 10). Here they are, in order of popularity:

1. I Love the Cloud: My Never-Ending Journey with the AWS

• I see that two things have remained steady over the past few years: continuous innovations at AWS and my love for AWS. AWS has always kept me motivated to learn new things with its consistent new offerings, and I’d like to share the reasons that I believe make it the immense influence on the cloud that it is today.

2. Adopting Microservices at Netflix: Lessons for Architectural Design

• Switching to a microservices architecture creates exciting opportunities in the marketplace for companies. For system architects and developers, it promises an unprecedented level of control and speed as they deliver innovative new web experiences to customers.

3. CoreOS Announces Tectonic: First Commercial Kubernetes Platform

• On Monday the 6th, CoreOS announced a new product called Tectonic, a platform meant to combine the CoreOS stack and Google's Kubernetes. Tectonic's primary purpose is for creating enterprise-ready container tools and to capitalize the businesses looking to incorporate containers into their production infrastructure.

4. The Cloudcast #185 - Masters, Minions and Pods - Kubernetes 101

• Brian talks to Patrick Reilly (@preillyme; CEO @kismatic) about the basics of Kubernetes, deploying and scheduling containers at scale, and how to learn more about distributed applications.

5. Giving Legacy Networking Software Another Life

• In lots of networking and telecom software companies you can find many great networking and telecom software that has been in production for 5 to 10 years. Normally this software is sold on top of an appliance that gets bought from another company or another department.