terraform Terraform - Beginner Pitfalls After a rocky start, Terraform has become a great success story where I am. We've got both infrastructure and development teams using it, sharing both learnings and resources such as modules and code.
devops DevOps: What I Learnt From A Nightmare Journey I've just finished what was a very rough journey into a fully-automated deployment infrastructure at a large scale. At times it felt more like I was in a bizarre far-future version of a
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,
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
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
tools Load Balancing and Health Checks It's pretty common to want to load balance a web application across multiple nodes. The canonical implementation looks something like this: Traffic comes in from the public Internet to the load balancer, which
