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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
19 Oct 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
27 Jul 2016 21 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
05 Jul 2016 4 min read
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