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Introduction for Cloud Storage
By: Chiran Online
Tags: Cloud Storage, Intro About Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Storage Services, Icloud

What is cloud storage?

Cloud storage is a cloud computing classic in which data is stored in remote servers accessed from the internet, or “cloud”. It is continued, operated and managed by a cloud storage service provider on stage servers that are built on virtualization methods.

cloud storage is also known as utility storage ,a term subject to differentiation based on actual implementation and service delivery.

Advantages and Benefits

Trade capital expense for variable expense.

Benefit from massive economies of scale.

Stop guessing capacity.

stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers.

Go global in minutes.

Increase speed and agility.

Examples for cloud services

iCloud

iCloud storage is a cloud storage computing service. It was launched on October 12,2011 as of 2013, the service has 320 million users.

iOS based devices, personal computer running OSX, Microsoft Windows based computers are examples of devices which use iCloud.

Google Drive

Google drive is a file storage and synchronization service created by Google. It allows users to store files in the cloud synchronize files across devices, and share files. Users are given 15 GB free storage.

Microsoft OneDrive

Microsoft OneDrive is also an online storage service from Microsoft. OneDrive is formally known as SkyDrive, Windows 8.1 operating system. OneDrive is available over the web and can be downloaded as a desktop app. For earlier versions of Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Windows phone and Xbox any kind of files cloud be stored in OneDrive. Example : photo, video, documents. And it is easy to find them. OneDrive is tightly integrated with Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint.

Thank you so much for reading the article.
Introducing Ness
By: Adam Elmore
Tags: AWS, Cli, Web Development, Cloud, Deployment

Introducing Ness — the easiest way to deploy web sites and apps into your AWS account. I built Ness to simplify the process of shipping web products in a repeatable way with all of the best practices around security and performance baked into a single command.

npx ness deploy

As a software engineer and maker, I rely on AWS every day to help bring my ideas to life. A year ago, I discovered the AWS CDK and it dramatically improved my ability to stand up infrastructure quickly. I noticed, however, that I was often creating the same handful of resources (or “components” in CDK terms) each time I wanted to deploy a web product: an S3 bucket, a CloudFront distribution, a Route53 hosted zone and aliases, etc. The CDK makes it easy to componentize these resources, but standing up a CDK app for a simple static landing page felt tedious.

Doesn’t Amplify do this?

In short, yes. But, Amplify does a lot more. Ness is narrowly focused on deploying web assets to S3 and serving them through CloudFront with sane defaults that follow best practices. This means that the Ness CLI experience is straightforward and extremely simple to use. Amplify, on the other hand, has many additional concerns as it’s a much richer product aimed at standing up a variety of supporting resources such as data stores, APIs, and more.

Amplify also has a product surface area that stretches into the AWS console, which can mean that you need to open a browser to complete some web deployment and configuration tasks. This isn’t inherently good or bad; it just represents a different philosophy and highlights Amplify’s much larger (and more complicated) footprint.

Lastly, I’m working now to add support for additional cloud providers, so Ness won’t always be bound to AWS in the way that Amplify is.

Netlify and Vercel definitely do this…

Netlify and Vercel also offer CLI commands to deploy to the web with minimal friction, with one important difference: they’re paid products and you’ll eventually pay a premium over the AWS costs you’re accruing if you scale out of their respective free tiers. For many small projects, costs likely won’t come into play; but, you also lose a bit of control if you’re someone that enjoys managing AWS accounts.

It’s worth noting that today Netlify and Vercel have several important features that Ness is lacking — namely preview environments and (lambda) functions. The plan is to add these features (and more) to bring Ness into parity with these commercial products and represent a free, open-source alternative for those that don’t mind — or even prefer — to own their own infrastructure.

Next Steps

Next, I plan to add preview environments for new pull requests on GitHub through an official GitHub Action. I’d love to hear if others are finding this tool useful and what features they’d like to see moving forward. Find me on Twitter and/or GitHub (pull requests are welcome!).
First-Attempt: จัดการ Big Data กับ Hadoop บน AWS
By: Yossapol Witayanont
Tags: AWS, Data Processing, Thai, Cloud, Big Data

บนหน้าต่าง Add step ให้เราใส่ข้อมูลดังนี้

โดยเปลี่ยน <region> เป็น region ที่ EMR เราอยู่ ซึ่งข้อมูลพวกนี้เป็นข้อมูล log ของ CloudFront ที่ AWS จัดเตรียมไว้ให้ เพื่อใช้ทำแบบฝึกหัด

โดยเปลี่ยน <region> เป็น region ที่ EMR เราอยู่เช่นกัน ซึ่ง Hive query นี้ก็จัดเตรียมโดย AWS ซึ่งตัว Hive Query นี้มีหน้าตาดังนี้

-- Summary: This sample shows you how to analyze CloudFront logs stored in S3 using Hive

-- Create table using sample data in S3. Note: you can replace this S3 path with your own.

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cloudfront_logs (

DateObject Date,

LocalTime STRING,

Location STRING,

Bytes INT,

RequestIP STRING,

Method STRING,

Host STRING,

Uri STRING,

Status INT,

Referrer STRING,

OS String,

Browser String,

BrowserVersion String

)

ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.RegexSerDe'

WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (

"input.regex" = "^(?!#)([^ ]+)\\s+([^ ]+)\\s+([^ ]+)\\s+([^ ]+)\\s+([^ ]+)\\s+([^ ]+)\\s+([^ ]+)\\s+([^ ]+)\\s+([^ ]+)\\s+([^ ]+)\\s+[^\(]+[\(]([^\;]+).*\%20([^\/]+)[\/](.*)$"

) LOCATION '${INPUT}/cloudfront/data';

-- Total requests per operating system for a given time frame

INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY '${OUTPUT}/os_requests/' SELECT os, COUNT(*) count FROM cloudfront_logs WHERE dateobject BETWEEN '2014-07-05' AND '2014-08-05' GROUP BY os;
Amazon Web Services vs Google Cloud
By: Rahul Sood
Tags: Cloud Services, AWS, Google, Cloud, Cloud Computing

Both Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are mature hosting platforms with buck-loads of services and features to offer.

What is Amazon Web Services?

Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a paid subscription basis. It was launched in 2006 thus having more experience in cloud computing than Google or any other cloud computing providers and is successfully the on demands needs of enterprises in regards to cloud computing platform.

Talking about number of availability zones Amazon has 55 availability zones world-wide with 8 more on its way.

Now let us consider one more factor that in market share, Amazon Web Services is leading with 40% of public cloud market share.

Amazon Web Services covers ups like 200 of services. Services which it covers are storage, database, analytical, networking, mobile, developer, management tools, IoT, security and many more.

The maximum downtime faced by it was in 2015 was of 2 hours and 30 minutes. It takes 10–12 minutes for launching an instance in it and the process of launching is quite difficult.

When we talk about pricing models, in Amazon Web Services the very basic instance which includes 2 virtual CPUs + 8 GB RAM costs 69$/month whereas the larger instance offered by Amazon Web Services which include 3.84 TB RAM + 128 virtual CPUs is $3.97/hour.

What is Google Cloud?

Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its user products, such as Google Search and YouTube. It was launched in 2011 and is quite a cheat and reliable cloud computing platform for businesses.

Google has 18 availability zones world-wide with 3 more on go which are no doubt very less in number as compared to Amazon. Google Cloud comes on third place according to the market share with 10% of public cloud market share.

Google Cloud covers up with 60+ services. . Services which it covers are storage, database, networking, big data services, machine learning services, etc.

The maximum downtime faced by it was in 2015 was of 11 hours and 34 minutes which is a lot but in case of speed it takes the lead. In Google Cloud launching an instance is quite easier and quick as compared to Amazon Web Services so we can say that it is a way faster than Amazon Web Services in terms of speed of operating system.

When we talk about pricing models, in Google Cloud the very basic instance which includes 2 virtual CPUs + 8 GB RAM costs $52/month whereas the larger instance offered by Google Cloud which include 3.75 TB RAM + 160 virtual CPUs is $5.32/hour.

AWS is for now the market leader and offers more services, but when it comes to pricing and speed, Google Cloud Platform is definitely one you want to check out!. Which one would you prefer for your application? Please let me know in the comments …
Christmas / Holiday 2020 - New Year 2021 Cloud Storage Deals: pCloud, Multcloud, Transfercloud, Koofr, Degoo, Thunderdrive
Tags: Christmas, New Year, Cloud, Business, Storage

It’s Christmas time. Koofr, Degoo and Thunderdrive offer you 40% additional discount to store data on cloud. There are other deals (pCloud, Multcloud, Transfercloud) for your hoarding activities too. Enjoy New Year 2021 with more storage and new tools.

40% on Cloud Storage (up to 1TB with WebDAV support, or 15TB without) is back again. You need to use the coupon HOLIDAY40.

Koofr 1TB for 169.99$, 250GB for 59.99$, 100GB for 29.99$ + additional 40% discount. Use the coupon HOLIDAY40.

Discover more about Koofr Features here.

Degoo 2TB for 59.99$, 3TB for 69.99$, 10TB for 99.99$, 15TB for 149.99$ + additional 40% discount. Use the coupon HOLIDAY40.

ThunderDrive 500GB for 29$, 1TB for 39$, 2TB for 59$ + additional 40% discount. Use the coupon HOLIDAY40.

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AWS主催Well-Architected Bootcamp Onlineに参加して
Tags: Online Training, AWS, Solution Architect, Cloud, Bootcamp

Tab people. Software engineering, cloud engineering(AWS), dj, electronics, keyboard DIY, subculture research. Python, C, Java, Vue.js. Stories are my own.
Configure Layer 2 ‘tap’ firewall VPN with Open Source PfSense & OpenVPN
By: Sarathi Balakrishnan
Tags: Firewall, Data Center, Security, Cloud, Pfsense

There are two modes in OpenVpn configuration ‘tun’ and ‘tap’. tap is Layer 2 VPN and tup is Layer 3 VPN, one more hop between subnets. tap is nothing but bridging two network segments to allows access to LAN by allocating LAN DHCP IP to the remote VPN client (eg 10.0.0.0/24). In this mode, you can have devices in the same IP subnet on both ends of VPN, and they’ll be able to handshake each other directly without any changes in their routing tables.

On the other hand, tun is more secure than tap. it creates a tunnel and creates a separate network segment to separate the remote clients from the local network. Remote client’s internet traffic will be redirected through the VPN without LAN access. Still, LAN access can be achieved by adding a static route like -push “route 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0” this might be useful in some cases.

First thing is to create CA Cert.

In the same section, click on Certificates and create a user and server certificate.

Now the certificates are ready, install OpenVPN package.

Go to System → Package Manager → Available Packages. and search for OpenVPN

In the device model dropdown select “tap — Layer 2 Tap Mode”

Change the local port if needed. the default port is 1194

Peer Certificate Authority — select the certificate we created above

Server certificate — select the server certificate created above

Click Save

Now we need to create a firewall rule to allow the OpenVPN traffic.

Go to Firewall →Rules

Next we have to create a bridge. Clients connect to the OpenVPN OpenVPN interface. We must bridge that interface with the LAN.

Go to Interfaces → Assignments

Available network ports: select the openvpn port we created now.

This will be assigned to OPT1 or OPT2 based on your configuration. Save it.

on the same page. click “Bridge” tab link on top.

Select LAN and give it a description and save it.

Now go to VPN → OpenVPN → Client Export

If every configured correct, you will see the OVPN download link at the bottom. download the file and add it to your remote OpenVPN config folder. you can create VPN users to connect from the remote.

That’s it.
Deploy and Manage an AWS VPC with Terraform
By: Nick Rondeau
Tags: AWS, Terraform, DevOps, Cloud, Cloud Computing

In this scenario, I am going to show you how to completely configure and deploy an AWS VPC with the aid of the powerful tool Terraform. Being Infrastructure as Code (IaC) this shows you just how easy it could be to replicate resources.

Feel free to follow along, I have uploaded all files to GitHub.

Here us the layout of the VPC we will be creating. It will host two EC2 instances, a webserver in a public subnet, and a Database in a private subnet.

The public subnet is accessable and all traffic is routed directly to the internet gateway we will be configuring.

The private subnet is completely cut off from the internet, all traffic in and out.

Verify your Terraform installation:

$ terraform --version

Terraform v0.14.2

Global Variables

Variables let us set some default values that are easily repeatable. This is setting up our region, even the AMI used for our EC2 instances.

AWS Provider

Now let’s set up our provider. This is rather straightforward, AWS is of course the provider and region refers to the variable previously defined.

VPC

This is where we lay out our entire VPC. We are setting up the public and private subnets. An Internet Gateway allows access to the internet. A route table contains a set of rules, called routes, that are used to determine where network traffic from your subnet or gateway is directed.

Multiple security groups are needed. The security group for our webserver allows our HTTP/HTTPS and SSH connections. Our Database security group enables MySQL port 3306, ping, and SSH from the public subnet.

Resources

We will need to set up some things for our EC2 instances. A key pair is needed to SSH to the instances that we are going to make. Then we define the AMI and configuration for the webserver, it is going to run a shell script which will install Apache Server for us. Lastly, we define our Database instance inside our private subnet.

This is the install script for Apache:

Now, it’s not good practices to keep your AWS keys in your Terraform files. We are going to set them as environment variables. Never store secrets in your Terraform files, especially if you intend to share them.

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="enter key without quotes"

$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="enter key without quotes"

Now let’s run our Terraform code

$ terraform init

$ terraform validate

$ terraform plan

$ terraform apply

That’s it, now this can be replicated, built upon, whatever your heart desires. that is the magic of Terraform. We can now in a matter of minutes have this infrastructure completely built out.

$ terraform destroy

Don’t forget to destroy our creations to clean up. I hope you have enjoyed following along. If you want the code for this project, please check out GitHub. Thanks for reading.
Azure Firewall and Standard Load balancer
By: Cloud Journey
Tags: Cloud, Azure, Networking

Written By Ronnie Quan

Overview

In this article, you will explore Azure external standard load balancer inbound NAT rules and Azure firewall NAT rules.

Through this exercise, following resources will be configured.

Azure virtual network with three subnets, for web server, client and Azure firewall

Azure external standard load balancer

Two Azure windows virtual machines as load balancer backend pool.

Azure firewall

One Azure Ubuntu virtual machine (no public IP)

User route table for client subnet

You will be able to ssh to a Ubuntu vm using three technical options, when use Azure firewall DNAT rule, you generate inbound traffic to the firewall.

From this ubuntu vm, you will access the web site hosted in the external load balancer backend pool via Azure firewall, generate outbound traffic for the Azure firewall.

System Diagram

Under ronniepersonal-vnet, there are three subnets.

Web subnet hosts one load balancer and two Azure VM, you have web site running in the vm, and user will browse the site via load balancer.

AzureFirewallSubnet is dedicated to Azure firewall.

Client subnet hosts one Azure ubuntu vm, you will ssh to this Linux vm.
Why Tringy is The Best OTT App For VoIP Business?
By: Tejaswini Kola
Tags: Telecom, Voip, Cloud, Unified Communication, Telecommunication

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a cost-effective solution…

…that many businesses are engaging in to make their communications effective, bring down their costs, and increase their revenue.

To realize this potent combination, Voxvalley has developed Tringy, which is by far voted as one of the best OTT applications.

Tringy is an appropriate solution for VoIP businesses intending to perform a large array of activities.

These activities could be directly impacting the revenue generation models.

Tringy is an over-the-top (OTT) solution that enables operators to provide feature-rich facilities by creating their own OTT apps.

The OTT apps thus developed aid the operators to set-up their IP communication incurring the least investment and risk.

Our solution is robust and quick to deploy, speeding the operators’ goals.

Now one may wonder why we need Tringy when the market is full of free OTT apps.

Here is one powerful reason –

Tringy’s soft-switch server that works in the backend, is an end-to-end solution to manage your users, billing, administrative issues, packages, routing, and other activities as required by your VoIP.

Know more: Read Full Article
In Praise of Google
By: Michael Bisignani
Tags: Google, Cloud, Classics, Information Technology, Latin

Sometimes the simple contributions that #Google genius has given us all, and more broadly humanity, are the ones that have the power to surprise and delight us the most, the power to entertain, the capacity to educate with increasingly democratic reach. Consider the example of Youtube and the countless educators, volunteers, and content creators such as linguistic polymath Luke Amadeus Ranieri that painstakingly create and share jewels that help us become better versions of ourselves.

Ecclesiastical Latin vs Classical Pronunciation History | Latin: The Immortal Language

Link: https://youtu.be/XeqTuPZv9

Fascinating to hear how the Carolingian effort to standardize the pronunciation of written Latin laid the foundation for the creation of ecclesiastical Latin. This had two mind-blowing effects. Artificially creating a new standard by which cross border, regional communications could take place within Europe, and subsequently fueling Renaissance forces, latent or prominent over the course of perhaps a millennium. More importantly, the effort created a Language frozen in time, effectively immortalized it for posterity. Now that is a tall order.

It is content such as this that is worth factoring into the calculus that rates the societal value of the world of possibilities that a company like Google opens up to the world.
E-commerce Software Market Size Worth $20.6 Billion By 2027
By: Gaurav Shah
Tags: Healthcare, Food And Beverage, Ecommerce Software, Cloud, Automotive

The global e-commerce software market size is expected to reach USD 20.6 billion by 2027, expanding at a CAGR of 16.3% from 2020 to 2027, according to a study conducted by Grand View Research, Inc. E-commerce software is used by organizations to offer their products and services online. Various benefits such as cost reduction, enhanced customer experience, and efficient management of inventory is enabling companies to move their business online. This is expected to positively impact growth over the forecast period.

Increasing adoption of online shopping in developing economies is also anticipated to boost market growth during the forecast period. According to the India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), the number of online shoppers in India is projected to reach around 220.0 million by 2025. Furthermore, with the introduction of 5G technology, online shopping is anticipated to rise over the coming years. Due to this upsurge, retailers are opting for solutions to meet the customer requirements, efficiently.

E-commerce software portals play a pivotal role, help SMEs and large-scale enterprises reach remote areas, and are gradually becoming a way of doing business worldwide. These portals facilitate in establishing new trading relationships between companies in addition to supporting existing relationships. Moreover, e-commerce platforms enable businesses to lower down their marketing expenses, better management of the suppliers and customers, and boosts sales engagement.

Additionally, rising proliferation of smartphones and increasing internet penetration is further creating avenues for market growth. Owing to the ease of doing business and enabling companies to track their inventory, view orders, and payments on mobile phones has resulted in increased adoption of e-commerce platforms. Furthermore, with increasing competition, several businesses are opting for online business models to gain a competitive edge in the market.

The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented impact on the global economy. People across the globe have shifted to online shopping of groceries and healthcare products as brick-and-mortar stores are shut-down to combat the virus spread. Market players are focusing on offering investments for retailers to start their business online. For instance, 3dcart introduced its COVID-19 e-commerce Assistance Fund plan committing USD 2.5 million for small businesses that are planning to bring their operations online. It is expected that the online shopping trend will continue over the long-term, due to which the market will rise.

Click the link below:

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/e-commerce-software-market

Further key findings from the study suggest:
File Server / File Share to SharePoint Online migrations
By: Jayden Bartram
Tags: Cloud Migration, Cloud, Sharepoint, Storage, Migration

Microsoft SharePoint Online is widely used across enterprises globally, it’s often added into other Microsoft packages which in its own way offers a free tool for content management and collaboration — especially in this new way of remote working. However, migrating your data and content into SharePoint from your traditional on-premise File Server or File Share can prove difficult, cumbersome and just overall complex.

When migrating from on-premise traditional file servers Movebot provides an executable agent that doesn’t need to be installed and connects to Movebot without the need to worry about firewalls or complex configurations. Once connected, it is as if you are using another cloud endpoint, it behaves the same way and encrypts your data in transfer using HTTPS, as well offers checksum technology to prevent data loss.

Connecting to SharePoint is the easy part, it’s the on-premise part that is often the challenge. With Movebot you simply log in through OAuth (your administrators credentials). With other providers, you often have to install heavy software, open firewalls and beg your security team to be able to run the software. With Movebot, it’s as simple as running and executable and deleting it from your downloads folder once you are done.

Configuring the Windows file server agent

When you are setting up your migration, whether is a project or a simple migration, you will need to download the executable file and copy the token key. Once downloaded, run the agent and follow the instructions.

Connecting file server to Movebot

Connecting to Movebot

Connected to Movebot for SharePoint migration

Mapping users/folders within Movebot

An example of mapping a user

An important note, when migrating from a local file server, be sure to select a Movebot region under advanced settings to migrate from that is closest to you, this is to improve performance and also maintain data sovereignty. If you don’t see a region you require, then please reach out to the team and see if we can establish an ad-hoc region for you.

Another option that you have is the ability to run a discovery scan across your file server which simulates a migration and will show you any errors that may be encountered, a breakdown of the data and analytics of the content.

Movebot preflight discovery scan

Movebot keeps migrations simple, whether it is on-premise to the cloud, or cloud to cloud. It’s always simple, fast and cost-effective.

Head to movebot.io and begin your migration today. For a detailed guide on migrating from a File Server to a cloud platform head to our knowledge base.

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Basic AWS Cost Optimization principles!!!
By: Pachai Devaraj
Tags: AWS, Cloud, Optimization, Cloud Computing, Cost

This is the interesting topic which everyone wants to get expertise, which is not quite tough though. Alright, here are few things which i did in my projects, which practically saved $$$. Let’s get into the topic.

AWS cost optimization is an ongoing process, resources utilization needs to be continually monitored to determine when the resources are being under-utilized or not being utilized or idling to reduce the costs.

Basic process of cost optimization on AWS services remains the same, there are tactical ways to analyze the operational data to find the opportunities for savings and take actions to realize the savings.
How to Create AWS Resources With Code? — CloudFormation
By: Amroj Sandhu
Tags: AWS, Cloudformation, Cloud, Infrastructure As Code

Why use the CloudFormation Template?

One sure way to create an EC2 is via the AWS Console. You can click on “Create Instance” and enter subnets, security groups, and the instance type. Submit. It’s easy.

But, can you do the same steps 20 times over — in order to create a cluster with these instances?

The answer is, No.

AWS CloudFormation

Hence, CloudFormation.

The CloudFormation template lets you write infra-as-code. Where the JSON (or YAML) configurations define the infra i.e. the EC2 resource in our case. Further, we can replicate the same code for other instances. Run it once to create the required resources.

This article is your first look at CFT and how to write a minimal CFT that is manageable.

The CFT below creates an EC2 Instance in AWS.

We can infer from the above YAML file that we are creating an EC2 instance with the Instance type t2.micro .

Run the above CFT in the AWS Console > Goto CloudFormation > Choose the desired region from the top-right corner > Create Stack > Follow instructions.

Once we click on the “create stack” button, we will see an instance was created.

Status Page for the CloudFormation

How to separate the variables?

As per coding practices it makes sense to keep code and variable separate. Let’s extract the variables, initialize them, and then use them in the CFT.

By moving the hard-coding from the configs to parameters it makes a lot of sense. It is easier to have a glance at all the variables, since they are put together.

I don’t want to go with a fixed instance type i.e. “t2.micro” in our case. Is it not a better idea to choose instance type as and when I run the CFT?

So the final version of our CFT will look like.

Now, when we put this template into the AWS Console, it will show us the following selection.

CloudFormation with selection

Conclusion

The CloudFormation provides us with the ease to define everything in AWS as a code. The scope of CFTs is not limited to this blog.

How can we change the above YAML file such that we can have different variables — for both prod and lab environments?
Molecules of Love
By: Patrick M. Ohana
Tags: Rain, Chemistry, Clouds, Molecules Of Love, Poetry

Molecules of Love

Pic by MindZiper (CC0) via Wikimedia Commons

If we could fly among the clouds

we would be able to feel them

not every single time

but usually after the clouds had poured

their loads down on the world below

Rain mingled with molecules of love

the reason why rain is rarely

undesired or a nuisance

The water soothes many thirsts

the molecules of love

all broken hearts

and all those who need some more

Chemists have analyzed rain water

unable to find any purported love

perhaps ignoring that such love

evaporates more quickly than H₂O

It has to come in contact with flesh

before hitting any ground

though trees and other life

absorb them for their love wants

Alchemists of yore all knew

that gold really meant love

Who cares about any metal

when priceless love is the

currency of every god and mortal

Thus flying between the clouds

we would feel the residue of love

which does not volatilize

but begins to accumulate anew

molecules of love for the next rainfall

If I had to make a guess

unscientifically of course

I would surmise from what I know

that each molecule of love

contains special instances

of oxytocin dopamine and serotonin

the happiness resulting from love

Patrick M. Ohana
Crust Project Development — Dec. 14-Dec.20
By: Crust Network
Tags: Crustnetwork, Cloud, Polkadot

Crust Community Activities

Crust “Profit Ark” Review 3

The third phase of Crust “Profit Ark” incentivized testnet has now completed. Around 740 storage nodes from all over the world joined the incentivized testnet. The total available storage space is close to 40 PB. For Details: Crust “Profit Ark” Review 3: 20 Outstanding Contribution Nodes of the Crust Community

The First Blockchain Technology (Advanced) Seminar

From December 10th to 13th, the Crust Network team was invited as a professional lecturer to participate in the first blockchain technology (advanced) seminar in Wuhan, Hubei with the topic of “Substrate Advanced Application Development”, sharing the detailed introduction and installation of Polkadot-JS App, explanation of common functions, using Substrate to build a blockchain and its application in distributed storage.

“Crust Pioneers”

For the 20 Outstanding Contribution Nodes of Crust “Profit Ark” at home and abroad, we awarded the title of “Crust Pioneer” and sent the corresponding rewards. “Crust Pioneers” continuously recruiting, welcome more users to join our team to build a decentralized storage cloud! For Details: Crust “Profit Ark” Review 3: 20 Outstanding Contribution Nodes of the Crust Community

Crust Storage Market Community Activities

In the Crust series community activities of “Do you know anything about Crust Storage Market”, we have released the winners and rewards distribution of “Ask Me Anything”. We welcome all users to actively participate in the upcoming activities!

Crust Open Day December Event

Crust Open Day December event will launch on the last week of this month. For the specific time and details, please pay attention to the subsequent announcements.

Crust Project Development

Chain Work Overview

Completed the initial version of DSM2.0 based on Review comments Research and promote the connection with Parachain Rococo V1 Study the problem of unstable block time in CC2 testnet Develop Maxwell M3 Tasks

sWorker Work Overview

Fix bugs including chain synchronization, folder operation, etc. Removed Schedule related logic that easily caused deadlock Refactor SRD detection and automatic deletion logic for insufficient disk Refactor the logic of detecting meaningful files and calling file interface delete logic Modify the test case for testing

Node Work Overview

Added Space command line interface Implemented interactive Config configuration Removed some unused files and codes

Apps Work Overview

Fix the bug that Pined logo does not render after IPFS file Pin Fix the bug that the Explorer and Peers page failed to load Fix the bug that page jump failed after deleting file Deploy the crust-apps internal test version

“Profit Ark” Work Overview

Optimize points display page Fix the problem of Query Timeout caused by too large Events

Others
“What do you mean you still have to do exams when you work in tech?”
By: Samantha I
Tags: Microsoft, Learning, Exams, Cloud, Cloud Computing

To get straight to the point, exams, and more importantly learning does not stop when you leave formal education. Especially if you are interested in working in technology.

Many are aware of taking exams if you are pursuing law or accounting career but not technology. I have to admit this is not something I realised before I started working in tech so I can see how people might be confused but let me break this down for you. Are you ready for the best kept secret to working in tech?…….

If you want to work in tech you need to be a learner. The industry, innovation and products are constantly changing (like every day) so if you aren’t willing to learn you won’t be able to keep up.

Microsoft is big on having a “growth mindset” which means they encourage and want their people to have can do attitude. None of this “I could never do X, Y or Z”. It’s having the belief that even if you don’t know something right now, you can learn about it. There is also emphasis on not being “know-it-all” type individual (as no one does know it all) but rather a “learn-it-all” kind of person. So there is a focus on taking time to learn and get certified in different things. There are even specific days we have each quarter to block out time to focus specifically on your learning.
AWS: What is IoT Greengrass?
By: Lazaro Ibanez
Tags: AWS, Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Development

The Internet of Things, also known as IoT, refers to the network of physical devices (Things) that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies with the goal of collecting and sharing data with other devices and systems over the internet. These devices range from ordinary household objects to sophisticated industrial tools. Connecting up all these different things and adding sensors to them, adds a level of digital intelligence to devices that would be otherwise dumb, enabling them to communicate real-time data without involving a human being. The Internet of Things is making the fabric of the world around us more smarter and more responsive, merging the digital and physical universes.

AWS IoT Greengrass is an offering by AWS that allows you to take a lot of the capabilities provided by the AWS IoT service and run that at the edge closer to your devices helping you to build, deploy, and manage device software. Customers use AWS IoT Greengrass for their IoT applications on millions of devices in homes, factories, vehicles, and businesses. You can program your devices to act locally on the data they generate, execute predictions based on machine learning models, filter and aggregate device data, and only transmit necessary information to the cloud.

AWS IoT Greengrass extends AWS to edge devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, but remain using the cloud for storage, management, and analytics. Greengrass enables local device messaging via MQTT protocol, establishing a secure connection to the cloud. The AWS IoT then allows devices to connect with the AWS Greengrass Core. You can program AWS IoT Greengrass to filter device data and only allow transmission of necessary information back to the cloud.

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Dreams
Tags: Thoughts, Fly, Dreams, Feelings, Poetry

My dreams catch me,

and lift me off the ground.

I try to root myself,

but I take flight.

I’m going far away,

I get lost,

but I always come back.

I dream that I don’t dream,

I dream that I do not dream of you,

but I can not.

My dreams catch me,

And they take me to heaven.
Mental Monologues of an Overthinker - 1
Tags: Braindumps, Overthinking, Dreams, Life, Writing

Mental Monologues of an Overthinker - 1

Some say that dreams have meanings. Others consider this complete bs.

I had a dream last night, more like, at sunrise. My chemistry teacher was following me through different realms, under different guises. I believe she was even a lawyer at some point. And I was running from her, losing things along the way. I always ended up facing her and escaping just inches away, every single time (I even lost my 2 best friends. I saw them during the ‘dark movie theater chase’ and they were both eating popcorn and watching a movie without me. When they saw me standing there, they gave me a death glare and turned away).

But I guess I still managed to escape. Or maybe I didnt. I woke up before the dream ended. But I find it fascinatingly perusing though. Like I get to decide my own future — What I want to make out of it. So, here’s my take on what this would mean, if dreams truly are supposed to make sense:

My school life has been extremely stressful — it’s just an exam after another, a seemingly endless list of incomplete assignments and what not (of which I want the grades, because i really wanna ace this year), and constant cluelessness during every single revision class because ~Guess who never paid attention to class ~. All of this amongst my own swirl of intense emotions, obsessive soul searching, and sweeping identity changes at every corner. It truly is a nightmare.

So, my best friends are also my exam prep partners (it’s a nerd thing), and they’ve prepared super specific and oftentimes crippling timetables. I mean, I can’t blame them. All of us went too aloof because of the sudden introduction to online classes. Since we’re not seeing our teachers urging us and yelling sense into our stupid heads irl, it all ended up feeling like reading a work of fiction. That is, until the exams and the grading processes started, every single time.

And so, I didnt and couldnt stick to those timetables due to my chronic lethargy and various other situations (I’m ditching a timetable as I write this). My friends have acknowledged my actual difficulties and sometimes, plain inability to do tasks when I’m told to (when that person is not an authority figure, and especially when that person is me). But I still feel this guilt because, in the end, I’m going to interrupt a few of their plans too, since we were supposed to do them together, like mocktests, etc. So, that made my subconscious mind thought they’d hate me and that I’d lose them? That makes sense, I guess. So, in short, i was running away from all of the school stress, and was losing things along the way, and the end…. Wasn’t there?!?!?!?!

The philosophical little creature in me now chooses to think of various scenarios as to how it would have ended, switching between positive and negative endings, with sweet wee panic attacks along the way. I will spare you the facepalmy frustration that monologue is bound to give you. Bye🙃
Wisdom In A Dream.
Tags: Wisdom, Bruce Lee, Dreams, Psychology, How The Mind Works

The Inner Workings Of My Mind.

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I had a dream last night that Bruce Lee appeared to and told me some of his wisdom. I am not sure if he would have uttered any words of this likeness.

I am a Bruce Lee fan and this really was amazing. Do I think I was visited by him? No I would say most likely my mind is trying to give me some advice and chose someone whom I admire to pass on these words to maybe take more notice of it.

These are the words I heard:-

"Everyone has potential to be great. Yet even those who already know their gifts and potential fail. Why? Because at a certain point you reach the ceiling and you don’t quite know how to break through that ceiling.

That ceiling is something that you have created with your own mind. You fail to recognize this.

Do not let people get you down do not let them take away from you. Yes they can call you anything you like. But up here in your mind you know what is right about how you want to live your life. If people laugh at you for your dreams let them. They do not know the inner workings of your own mind.

Now back to that ceiling. If you are an athlete and think you are at the physical peak of your fitness you are wrong. You may reach that ceiling where you think you cannot gain any more strength, any more muscle, endurance or quickness. You are wrong. That ceiling is not real, you make it real because you are scared. Do not be scared to push at the ceiling it will break and you can break through it. There may be an initial mess but then you realize you are on another floor looking down at where you once where, that is progress. Never let the ceiling win.

The same applies to business and growth never let that ceiling control your mind it is the other way around. You control your mind, don’t listen to people who say it is not true. To those people laugh in your mind but don’t say anything they have learned nothing.

Don’t waste your time with people who do not want to learn. The ceiling is there to hold a house up but if you want more levels then you are going to create more ceilings until you reach the attic. Only very few realize this.”

I guess my mind is trying to tell me something that I really need to hear.

©zoelou379
The Dreams.
Tags: Overthinking, Mental Health, Heartbreak, Dreams, Stress

How do you get out of your head when your own head consumes you? I don’t often sleep at night, but somehow I did and I should have gotten myself up, but sleep paralysis grounded me, I forced to watch my dreams in play that were instantly just as painful as being awake. When my body couldn’t take the dream anymore I started to shake. I couldn’t breathe. I thought that I was going to wake up in tears but instead, I woke up with my heart just as broken, Just as nauseous, just as hurt. I never wake up early naturally I need alarm assistance, That was when I could trully feel this pain in my heart that was a growing pressure, adding to the breaks in which I thought we’re trying to heal. The crazy thing about it all is that when I fell asleep, I was falling into sleep with a clear head. Which rarely happens. I should’ve known something wasn’t right, but we don’t often think about that most of us go to sleep because we’re tired, there often isn’t an overwhelming process. For example, sometimes after I get out of work I have a planned routine, but based on how i’m feeling it can shift. For example every day when I get out of work I come home take a shower to wash off my day, but here’s the shift in my routine; instead of relaxing after my shower I will workout for three to four hours (with 5 minutes breaks in between) then take another shower then watch binge a show or in recent days work on my business. Have you ever had overwhelming thoughts that make distraction your main priority just to get you through the day and next?
I am THE main character
By: Vivian Saenz
Tags: Realizations, Reality, Dreams

As a kid I always wanted to write books, essays, letters, basically anything I could write because I loved writing. Throughout high school I realized how silly that was because why would a random person get famous off of writing a book about their life? Well, quite frankly, I still have a small dream in the back of my head to write a book. I was just writing nonsense one day and it hit me. I started writing and thinking and then it came to me. I am a god. I'm not talking about being rich or popular. I'm talking about everything always going my way. I have received everything I have ever wanted in life. Friends, relationships, materialistic items, emotions, values, traditions, basically everything I have ever dreamt of in life. I am the main character and I am now realizing it. Every street I've driven on, every turn I've taken, every person I've met, every item I have seen, bought, or touched. All affected by me. Every person in my life, Every decision I've wanted. All affected by me. If i think about wanting something, even just a small desire, I end up with it. Once I realized it I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. I feel so royal and filled with power. I have let that get to my head sometimes but I always thought how cool and interesting it would be to meet or reach out to other people whether they feel the same or not. This is my first “blog” but you will hear from me very soon! xoxo vivian
Forever Dreaming
By: Harry Hogg
Tags: Creativity, Life, Prose, Dreams, Love

Forever Dreaming

Image: Author

I never want to wake from the magic of darkness, listening to the unspoken word, or smelling the ocean air breathing life into my soul.

I’m never closed off to pain, or the lingering of dreams. I turn every corner in every city wondering what fills the space that nothing has ever filled. A space that is not a lack of love or devotion, for that space is truly filled. I’m just a man walking on the earth with no visible identity, wearing a t-shirt that says L and doubtless made on the factory looms in China. I am lost, pleasantly so, hiding in plain sight.

I’ve met some who have made me feel at home, but when the day breaks, my heart, beating hard, feels the turbines of wanting more cut in. So I go to street corners just to look, to see what is there.

Nothing.

I head back to the shore, waiting for whatever it is to find me.
A Truman Show
Tags: Dream Journal, Dreams

My fingers are rapidly darting across my keyboard this early morning after Christmas to capture my dreamt memories before they sieve out of my mind.

The dream right before I woke up had a very Promised Neverland feel to it. For those of you who haven’t watched or read, Promised Neverland is a fantasy manga about an orphanage. The orphans slowly realize that they’re actually like cattle being grown until their eventual consumption by a race of demons. I know, dark. But I had the creeping sense that someone (or maybe a race of demon people) was manufacturing my experience.

In my dream, I lived parts of my own life out, but felt a creeping sense that it had all been fabricated. Not fabricated in the hallucinative sense, but like Truman Show fabricated. That every detail, from my middle school classroom to the sky and the surrounding landscape had been artificially painted like a picture. That there was some mysterious cabal designing the minute aspects of my life.

For what purpose? Who knows. Dreams tend to be very egocentric. They offer a very individualistic perspective into our imagined surroundings, or at least that’s how the ones I remember most clearly upon waking up go. Maybe I was being raised to be eaten. Or maybe I had some level of consciousness that the dream world was being actively constructed by my own mind. Maybe it’s the closest I’ve come to being actually aware that I’m in a dream.

But I do remember trying to “break” the dream. I’d throw my phone as hard as I could into the ground to see if it would break — it wouldn’t. I’d fly up into the air and then let myself fall to see if I’d die, only to miraculously “wake up” in bed the next morning.

Not to say that these events were chronological in any way. There wasn’t really a concept of next morning. I’d be in college one day, then back in kindergarten. Then I’d skip forward to middle school, only to find myself back in elementary. I’d have conversations with friends about moving to New York in the present day (which have approximately happened, just not exactly as laid out in the dream), only to find myself in Los Angeles the next moment. It’s like I was plucking at asynchronous threads of my life on an out-of-tune guitar that somehow still formed a coherent melody.

At one point, I was in a school cafeteria. Someone else had just asked out my middle school crush. Back in 7th grade, this would have been devastating, but at this point in my dream I was becoming aware that none of it was actually real. I felt this sort of detachment from the world. A sense of nihilism that was strangely liberating.

I woke up retaining that freeing, light sense of detachment and immediately decided to dream journal for the next few days to see how it goes. I’ll be posting each one on Twitter to see if anyone else can make sense of the strange comings and goings of my somnolent memories.