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Terraform - Beginner Pitfalls
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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.

  • Matt Kimber
    Matt Kimber
9 min read
DevOps: What I Learnt From A Nightmare Journey
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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

  • Matt Kimber
    Matt Kimber
19 min read
IaC and the post-environment world
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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,

  • Matt Kimber
    Matt Kimber
4 min read
Writing a Facebook Messenger chatbot with AWS Lambda and Terraform
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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

  • Matt Kimber
    Matt Kimber
22 min read
Cloud, PaaS, solution size and lock-in
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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

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    Matt Kimber
4 min read
Load Balancing and Health Checks
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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

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    Matt Kimber
4 min read
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