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Taste of Elixir - part 2

In this post, we will continue from part 1 and look at some more features in Elixir. This includes the pipe operator, working with external dependencies in scripts, and anony…

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Taste of Elixir - part 1

In BEAM me up, Elixir I wrote about the BEAM virtual machine and the lovely language Elixir. However, I did not provide any code examples for Elixir. In this post I will…

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BEAM me up, Elixir

Sometimes, you just need the right time to appreciate something and get into it properly.

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Change for productivity and joy

A change of laptop resulted in some changes how I work, and also a bit more joy in doing the work, and also on the way to be more productive. This happened.

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Welcome, joyful developers and grumpy cloud engineers!

Welcome to the Cloudgnosis blog!

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An opinionated AWS CDK project template for Python

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a nice framework to use if you build infrastructure for AWS. It can be relatively quick to define various types of cloud…

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Overcoming shortcomings in CloudFormation, using AWS CDK

Have you sometimes been frustrated over some feature which you can do via AWS Console, or perhaps via AWS CLI or one of the AWS SDKs (Software development Kits), but not via…

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From AWS ClickOps to infrastructure-as-software - importing with Pulumi

Setting up infrastructure through ClickOps, even if we may not admit to it, is often a reality. ClickOps is setting up infrastructure through the web interface of the cloud…

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Testing Pulumi Deployments - deployments mini-challenge

Pulumi is a player in the infrastructure-as-software space that I find really interesting. One of the tools they provide is the Pulumi Service, which is a management…

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How to Go with Pulumi YAML

This text is kind of continuation of the article “A tale of two tools - Pulumi and AWS CDK”, although it will mainly focus on Pulumi, and write about YAML and Go support for…

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Boost productivity with VS Code dev containers

Have you had situations when you may have many solutions or services, some which may rarely be changed, simply because they work as expected, or there are not much changes…

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A tale of two tools - Pulumi and AWS CDK

Two tools have gained some adoption recently in the infrastructure as software space are Pulumi and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). In this article I am going to…

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How to pick an infrastructure as code language

You can use several languages today to define cloud infrastructure as code. Sometimes, you have a range of languages to choose from, even for a single tool.

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Infrastructure-as-code - where is the customer obsession, AWS?

AWS has a problem with its handling of customers’ adoption of infrastructure as code. This applies to CloudFormation, and by extension, to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS…

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How to set up ad-hoc developer environments

Have you had a task to fix a supposedly simple thing in a project, a code or configuration change, only to spend most of the time to set up the environment so you can do the…

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Understanding configuration complexity

Have you struggled with increasing complexity of managing and maintaining software configuration? Some time ago, I saw a reference to what was called the Configuration…

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Take a cue to supercharge your configurations

Do you have a love/hate relationship with YAML or JSON for configurations?

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How to migrate from CloudFormation to AWS CDK

Have you, at least partially, adopted AWS CloudFormation to have better management of your Cloud Infrastructure?

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How to create awesome repeatable project setups for AWS CDK

Are you excited about using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to define infrastructure-as-code?

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7 ways to implement infrastructure as code on AWS

It feels daunting, does it not? Infrastructure-as-code promises to provide consistent, reliable, repeatable, and automated infrastructure provisioning and management.

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Why Infrastructure-as-Code Matter to You, Even If You Are Not a Hotshot Developer

What is the deal with infrastructure-as-code, why does it matter to you?

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How to simplify project setup with Projen

Whenever you start a new software project and set up a repository for it, what do you do? Run a package manager tool (npm/yarn init, poetry init, cargo init, etc.) to get…

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How to detect messed up CloudFormation resources - part 2

In part 1 we introduced an AWS CloudFormation feature called Drift Detection, with which we can detect (uncontrolled) changes to the resources we manage via CloudFormation.…

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How to detect messed up CloudFormation resources - part 1

If you use the principles of infrastructure as code to provision your cloud infrastructure, you get many benefits from it - repeatable, quick, and consistent deployments.…

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Is AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) right for you?

If you are looking to automate your AWS infrastructure provisioning, you may have heard of AWS Cloud Development Kit or AWS CDK for short. This is one of a multitude of…

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How to avoid unexpected AWS costs

If you are a user of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services, you have most likely run into the situation where you have some resources costing money that came as a…

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