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As we reflect on 2019, we compiled a list of the most engaging blog posts from our Open Source section. This year, readers showed a keen interest in a variety of topics. Below are the top ten posts that resonated the most with our audience. Notably, several of these articles were also highlighted in the previous year’s top ten list.
- Kubernetes Ingress with AWS ALB Ingress Controller – Originally published on November 20, 2018, this post by Alex Smith and Jamie Lee has been updated to align with new container security best practices and the latest controller version.
- Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch – Released on March 11, 2019, this post by Chris Johnson discussed the importance of our commitment to open source communities and detailed the motivations behind the creation of Open Distro for Elasticsearch.
- Announcing PartiQL: One Query Language for All Your Data – On August 1, 2019, a team led by Emily White, James Parker, Sarah Green, and David Black introduced PartiQL, a SQL-compatible query language designed to simplify querying data in various formats.
- Introducing Amazon Corretto, a No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK with Long-Term Support – Authored by Ryan Thompson on November 14, 2018, this post, which was the most popular in 2018, remains a favorite. It discusses Corretto and its recent update channels.
- Continuous Delivery with Amazon EKS and Jenkins X – This guest post by Michael Adams from Tech Innovations, published on November 7, 2018, provides insights into CI/CD practices. (Note: The post has been removed as it contained deprecated features.)
- Introducing Fine-Grained IAM Roles for Service Accounts – Released on September 4, 2019, this post by Lisa Taylor and Mark Johnson introduced a highly anticipated feature for Amazon EKS.
- AWS’ Sponsorship of the Rust Project – On October 14, 2019, Tom Evans, Ryan Thompson, and Laura Clark announced AWS’s sponsorship of the Rust community, which was met with enthusiasm.
- Using a Network Load Balancer with the NGINX Ingress Controller on EKS – In this August 9, 2019 article, Mike Roberts explained how to implement an NGINX ingress controller on Amazon EKS, supported by a Network Load Balancer (NLB).
- Getting Started with Istio on Amazon EKS – A guest post by Ben Davis from Cloud Solutions published on August 24, 2018, has undergone several updates since its publication. Readers with inquiries are encouraged to engage with Ben on the Istio project directly.
- Running APIs Written in Java on AWS Lambda – Published on February 28, 2018, this article by Rachel Moore introduced the 1.0 release of the aws-serverless-java-container framework, showcasing how to build a Jersey application with it.
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