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A collection of 3 posts
IaC and the post-environment world
infrastructure

IaC and the post-environment world

For about a decade I struggled with the common problem of environments. You usually start off with some well-meaning attempt at a simple layout, with development, integration, staging and live. Which feels fine, until you realise your company has different release cycles for software and data. So you split up
Oct 19, 2016 4 min read
Writing a Facebook Messenger chatbot with AWS Lambda and Terraform
cloud

Writing a Facebook Messenger chatbot with AWS Lambda and Terraform

There's a lot of buzz around about exposing services as chatbots. Whether that's interactive chats to help you book travel, or a simple Slack bot that lets you run a build, they're turning up everywhere. (Although as usual, nothing on the Internet is truly
Jul 27, 2016 22 min read
Cloud, PaaS, solution size and lock-in
aws

Cloud, PaaS, solution size and lock-in

I have a bit of a counter-intuitive opinion on cloud services and the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) world. For me, something like AWS isn't about "big". Yes, I know plenty of companies use elastic scaling to run huge, demand-based infrastructures along the Netflix model. But for rest of
Jul 5, 2016 4 min read
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