Be still and wait. This was the best advice I heard in 2019, and it took until the end of the year for me to realize it. Usually, when I itch for a change, I go all in, right away. I’m… Read More ›
A lot of you are packaging code into container images before shipping it off to production. That’s cool. For many, this isn’t a one-time exercise at the end of a project; it’s an ongoing exercise throughout the lifespan of your… Read More ›
Automating deployment of custom code and infrastructure? Not always easy, but feels like a solved problem. It gets trickier when you want to use automation to instantiate and continuously update databases and middleware. Why? This type of software stores state… Read More ›
One of the defining characteristics of the public cloud is choice. Need to host an app? On-premises, your choices were a virtual machine or a virtual machine. Now? A public cloud like Microsoft Azure offers nearly a dozen options. You’ve… Read More ›
This week, Confluent announced that there’s now a free trial for their Confluent Cloud. If you’re unfamiliar with either, Confluent is the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, and Confluent Cloud is their managed Kafka offering that runs… Read More ›
Design software that solves someone’s “job to be done“, build it, package it, ship it, collect feedback, learn, and repeat. That’s the dream, right? For many, shipping software is not fun. It’s downright awful. Too many tickets, too many handoffs,… Read More ›
So far in this blog series, we’ve set up our local machine and cloud environment, and built the initial portion of a continuous delivery pipeline. That pipeline, built using the popular OSS tool Concourse, pulls source code from GitHub, generates… Read More ›
