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 ›
Let’s continuously deliver an ASP.NET Core app to Kubernetes using Concourse. In part one of this blog series, I showed you how to set up your environment to follow along with me. It’s easy; just set up Azure Container Registry,… Read More ›
Isn’t it frustrating to build great software and helplessly watch as it waits to get deployed? We don’t just want to build software in small batches, we want to ship it in small batches. This helps us learn faster, and… Read More ›
