Part Two: Types of Services, Vendors, and APIs In this series, I’m trying to answer the question: “Precisely what kind of problems is IfC trying to solve?” Acknowledgements Many thanks to Shruti Kukkar for the valuable feedback on the early draft of this paper. Introduction In Part One of this series I…

Part One: Types of Communication with Cloud Services In this series, I’m trying to answer the question: “Precisely what kind of problems is IfC trying to solve?” Acknowledgements Many thanks to Shruti Kukkar for the valuable feedback on the early draft of this paper. Introduction In my previous article, I argued that…

The Next Logical Step in Cloud Automation — This is a technical sequel to an IDG Connect article that presented a relatively new concept of Infrastructure from Code (IfC) as the next logical step in cloud automation. IfC, at its core, refers to the fully automated generation of cloud configuration specifications based on the interpretation of application code…

Republished from the CAIOS Team Stream DynaCLI is an open source, cloud-friendly Python library for converting pure Python functions into Linux Shell commands on the fly. DynaCLI is ideal for automating routine development (including testing, deployment) and administrative (e.g. new user registration) tasks in a modern cloud software environment because…

Straight to the Point Software developers are busy people. They have no time neither for writing nor for reading long, well-polished texts (too often just yet another marketing BS). This post is for experienced Pythonista. I’m not going to explain the basics, but rather will just get straight to the point. The Composite Design…

Object Model and Architecture — Context and Problem Statement As it was argued elsewhere in another article an order of magnitude improvement of software development process productivity is required in order to realize full potential of the Serverless Cloud technology. …

Part One: Linux FUSE Cloud Storage Mount — Introduction Python Cloud Importer was developed as a part of the Cloud AI Operating System (CAIOS) project described at a high level in a separate article. Here, we are going to provide a more detailed account of motivation and internal design of this part of the system. …

Part Two: Python Cloud Importer — Introduction Python Cloud Importer was developed as a part of the Cloud AI Operating System (CAIOS) project described at a high level in a separate article. Here, we are going to provide a more detailed account of motivation and internal design of this part of the system. …