Infrastructure as Code - Surfing the Cloud

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Infrastructure as Code

A collection of 5 posts

Four Principles of DevOps

Four Principles of DevOps

DevOps is a very charged word in the industry right now. There is a lot of information and opinions available and not everybody wants to go read several books just to get an idea of what we are talking about (a TL;DR problem). Because of this, I think a

Idiomatic Containers

Idiomatic Containers

Using a container properly can be the difference between your success or failure. Knowing how to do this lies in following a few simple idiomatic patterns. You may have heard that the ideal pattern for containers is one process per container. This is a simplified statement explaining one of the

Avoiding Calamitous Data Migrations

Avoiding Calamitous Data Migrations

In the world of Continuous Delivery, data migrations are a looming challenge. A data migration is simply changing the structure of your live data, and the code to suit. The problem is a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario. Do you push out the new code first, or do you change

Top Mistakes of Container Implementations

Top Mistakes of Container Implementations

Docker and containers are the latest new tech "hot thing." But it is easy to make mistakes, and with the breadth of options the first step can seem like an insurmountable cliff. Before you begin a docker implementation, regardless of which platform you are using, you should know

Fox in the Henhouse

Fox in the Henhouse

There is a renown rivalry in Software Development as polarized as the Hatfield and McCoy's. As long as there has been software, there has existed two factions: the Developers, and the Administrators (also known as Operations). The Developers just want to write code and get it into Production.