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Fast Feedback 101 [DevOps Series]

Today, I’m going to talk about fast feedback, what it is, why it’s important, and walk through an example of how we made it happen in one of our own projects.

As I write this, I’m currently waiting for a Cloudformation script update to deploy a lambda version of a product to a development environment. This is an implementation of Infrastructure as Code, where code stored in version control defines how we build, deploy, and run our product. There’s just one problem.

Infrastructure as Code 101 [DevOps Series]

Rather than building environments by hand from a checklist, turn the process into an automated and repeatable process. This is Infrastructure as Code.

Continuous Deployment 101 [DevOps Series]

In this post we’re pick up where we left off in the Continuous Delivery article, and cover Continuous Deployment.

Continuous Delivery 101 [DevOps Series]

This is the first part of many items in our DevOps 101 blog series. We’re going to break down the what, why, and the how of modern DevOps practices. Today, we’re starting with Continuous Delivery.

MLOps – Machine Learning 2.0

The future of machine learning is MLOps: automating as much as possible for data scientists, so that they can iterate and get rapid feedback.

Automating DMS Endpoint S3 Target with a CloudFormation Custom Resource

Whether you are establishing an AWS Data Lake, or migrating services to the cloud, the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) should be a tool in your toolkit. DMS is a relatively straight forward service to configure and supported by AWS Cloudformation, however there is a specific pattern that requires a customised process. Enter CloudFormation Lambda backed Custom Resources which we can leverage to automate these processes and continue to reap the benefits of deployed resources via CloudFormation

Introduction to CI/CD [Audio and Slides]

Presentation from LastConf 2019

Local Development and Testing of AWS Services Using Localstack

In this post we explore how to test AWS services on our local machine without connecting to AWS.

Docker Multistage Builds: A Minimal Pipeline as Code

Have you wanted to get started with pipeline as code, but don’t have a CI/CD server? Want to do more with Docker than just putting code into containers? This post is for you

Cloudformation Deep Dive

There are a few key criteria I look for in CloudFormation – If I’m in a multi-account strategy then I must be able to deploy the CloudFormation in all accounts and/or regions. Additionally I must be able to stand up multiple copies of the same stack in the same VPC and account and/or regions.

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