There are missing stairs all over software development, and I’m willing to bet your organization, if it’s larger than the smallest of startups, has one. Do you know who it is? And if so, why do they still work for you? What do I mean by “missing stair”? The Missing Stair is a concept that […]
I’ve become very comfortable with Terraform over the past several years of my career. So of course, the company wants to switch from Terraform to Pulumi, a newer competitor with a very different outlook on how IAC should be written. Prerequisites Terraform uses declarative code for IAC — you declare what you want to exist, […]
One of the key components to making a good integration between products is understanding the mental model of each product. What one product calls a “counter” another could call a “metric” or a “stat”, for example; or worse, one product could be reporting, say, the amount of free memory, while another is reporting the percentage. […]
Now that we have containers, we need to push them to our subprod environments so they can be tested. Bear with me, this is where things get a little complicated. Docker Setup Most people take the easy way out when they move to docker: they ship their containers to the cloud and let someone else […]
I’ve been long overdue for a series of articles explaining how our current build system works. One of the major projects I was involved with before this recent reorg involved overhauling our manual build process into a shiny new CI/CD system that would take the code from commit to production in a regulated, automated fashion. […]
You may have noticed there’s not been any real content on this blog in a hot minute. That’s because I made a career move: I stopped being an automation engineer/QA consultant, and began working on a new team in a more DevOps manner. My team now is called Platform Ops. We’re a cross-functional team dedicated […]