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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 of…
SRE Meetup 5th December 2018 I gave a talk at the last 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 tooli…
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This post is a follow up to the talk I did at Dreamforce 2018 and the process below is based on the one we use here at OVO for our salesforce projects. If you haven't heard of Dreamforce, it is salesforce's annual partner/customer coference and is held in San…
This 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.…
As 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.…