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There are many good articles available that discuss in depth the difference between imperative and declarative style programming. Here I'm going to take a look at a very narrow subset of this debate, that of Infrastructure as Code, (Iac), and hopefully show off the difference between the two approa…
Mike BrooksSRE Meetup 5th December 2018 I gave a talk at the last Bristol SRE [https://www.meetup.com/Bristol-SRE/] meetup earlier this month which this time was held at OVO's Bristol office. The theme I presented on was the importance of simplicity. In particular I wanted to look closely at deployment toolin…
Mike BrooksThis is a question that every team should be asking themselves. There is no correct answer, but you should understand why it is an important question and how the answer affects your team.
Mike BrooksAs a high level concept Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a well established practice that is helping to improve the consistency and quality of infrastructure deployments. However IaC, just like all other code, can be overly complex, use poor conventions, and can build tech debt.
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