There are times you think, why on earth have I only come across this now?! This was me almost two years ago, I had just discovered Nix. Originally looking for an alternative to homebrew, I stumbled across a video titled "Nix as a Homebrew replacement". Intrigued, I watched…
Repetition - time consuming and mind numbing if you have to do something manually. A lot better if you can automate... no argument there. And yet, there is always room for improvement. CI/CD State of the Nation These days we have a plethora of automation and build tools to…
So, you got a new developer machine? Whatever the reason; you now have hours of updating, installing and configuring ahead of you... yay... haven't we all been there? There is an easier™️ way and in this post I'll be walking you through how I personally go…
Just the other day I had to launch AWS instances and bootstrap them automatically without using tools like knife and chef-server. I still wanted to use chef-solo on the server itself to continue the bootstrapping process, there is only so much you would want to do using a shell script……
Just recently I read a blog post about a combination of technologies and how they work together. One thing that struck me though was that the webapp was configured on build time, meaning the artifact that was produced was only capable of being deployed to the environment it was built…