Rinse & Repeat (Cloud-Init Lab)

The labs on the Nutanix Developer portal, up until now, have covered a few things. Nutanix products like Calm, technical subjects such as API usage (Python, C#, PHP), to name a few. Today’s quick lab introduces the use of Nutanix Acropolis and Cloud-Init together. By following this lab, you will learn how to deploy VMs …

Number 5 is alive! (Calm Lab)

Ok so it’s technically number 6, but who can forget that iconic line? 🙂 Today’s quick post introduces the latest lab to join the Nutanix Developer Portal labs lineup! The lab, named Calm Lab 1.0, is aimed squarely at getting exposure to Nutanix Calm, including how you, our developer community, could integrate your scripts directly …

API Finger Food (Code Samples)

While writing these blog posts, I often find myself saying “One of the most common questions we get is …” The interesting thing is that it’s absolutely real – we get a wide range of questions from customers, partners, community and event attendees. Naturally, we do see some patterns when looking at those questions. Today’s …

Developer Day at .NEXT has been deployed to production

Our inaugural Developer Day event happened May 7th, 2019 at the Anaheim Marriott as a prelude to the awesomeness that is .NEXT. This exclusive event would bring together some of our most technical customers and Nutantix folks for a jam-packed day of learning, discussions and hands on labs. Breakfast was served and the day started off …

Empathetic Design – UX for APIs

In a previous blog article API Design, I talk about using a UX mindset when designing APIs.  While, the basic premise of the article is still valid, I think it is more instructive to look a little deeper at the issue.  I had the privilege of talking about this very issue during my developer day …