Another Breach of Data Stored In The Cloud. Please stop.
Jul 11, 2019
I have a love-hate relationship with ”the cloud”. I love how easy it is to create services, easily access software and data, and I love the easy sharing of data. But I seriously hate how easy it is to unintentionally expose data that should remain confidential. In April of this year, the Telegraph reported on […]
Data Theft Via the Cloud: You Don’t Need Flash Drives Any More
Aug 23, 2018
News stories worldwide have related stories of individuals illicitly copying data from governments and private organizations. Sometimes that’s called data theft, but the term data exfiltration is more accurate. There are other exfiltration vectors, and all are threats to confidentiality. Most of the stories I have read about data exfiltration (of stored data) involve some […]
Integrating Amazon Lex with Amazon Lambda – Instinctive Language in the Cloud
Jun 13, 2017
Amazon announced in a blog post on April 19 that they had made their natural language tool, Amazon Lex, generally available. First of all, Amazon Lex is – according to the Amazon website – “a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text.” Lex provides natural language understanding and speech recognition; […]
SQL Server 2016: Cloud, Olympics and SQL Server
Aug 17, 2016
Welcome to the second leg of Learning Tree’s SQL Server newsletter. By the time you read this newsletter the Olympics in Rio will likely be in full swing. I’m a big sports fan and I like the Olympics. With the Olympics being the pinnacle of so many different sports all in a two-week long event […]
Android User Interface Testing on Amazon’s Device Farm Part 2
Oct 15, 2015
In part 1 of this post I looked at how to create Robotium instrumentation tests for an Android application so that it could be tested on Amazon’s Device Farm. At the end of that post, we had two apk files: the application and the tests. The process of testing on the AWS device farm is […]
