Managing Cloud Infrastructure

Deploying your service infrastructure to the public cloud can be a challenge when you are starting out. Keeping track of what you are running can be an arduous task, but not doing so creates a risk of losing control over your costs and security. I have written about some of the best practices and solutions I have encountered along the way.

Oct 31, 2021

Reducing SaaS Complexity

Building software is hard. Typically, engineering teams use dozens of services for building, deploying, monitoring, and analyzing their product, as well as providers for billing, internal tooling, customer service, and so on....SaaS, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Automation

Oct 23, 2021

Infrastructure-as-Code as Single Source of Truth

How many third-party services and resources does your application use? For a regular web application, you need a place to host your frontend, deploy your APIs, store files, a database for user accounts and other application data, maybe some queues for decoupling tasks, monitoring integrated with every service you deploy, analytics, DNS records, traffic management, the list keeps growing....Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Automation, Pulumi, Terraform

Sep 26, 2021

Containers as Code with Pulumi and Docker

In my recent post, I talked about how we reduced deployment times of our Infrastructure-as-Code workflow with Pulumi. The benefits of managing all resources you're deploying in a declarative way are manifold, including observability of what you're running, security in the sense of using encrypted secrets, and composability as all big providers are supported out of the box and you can even write your own additions if needed....Systems Architecture, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Automation, Pulumi, Terraform, Containers

Sep 19, 2021

Cutting Production Release Duration By 80%

The faster you can release changes, the faster you can ship new features, fix bugs, and solve incidents. But there's more: The less time it takes to think about deploying to production, the more time your engineers get back to work on meaningful tasks or spend their time elsewhere....Systems Architecture, Release, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Automation, Pulumi, Terraform, GitHub Actions

Apr 26, 2020

Managing Your Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi

Over the years plenty of tools to simplify managing your vast infrastructure and deployments emerged. Whether it was Terraform that sought to create declarative representations of cloud resources, or later on Kubernetes with its custom resource definitions (CRDs) connected to the underlying cloud platform, there were many attempts to reduce the effort of deploying completely reproducible infrastructure that evolves with your product's lifecycle....Pulumi, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Terraform