In a previous article titled Stop being selfish ! — Open up Terraform to your team with Atlantis, we showcased how powerful and convenient it is to have a well defined Git workflow to manage the infrastructure as code using Terraform with Atlantis. Using Git as a source of truth…

Relax and put your seat belt on… You’re about to enter my journey of an intense 2 weeks sprint I recently led, swapping my DevOps hat for a front-end one to build a full JAMStack website from the ground up deployed on AWS! Foreword & Context The GumGum Verity team applies machine learning…

What is Terraform ? Terraform is a powerful software from Hashicorp that allows you to write infrastructure as code in a declarative way to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service. The terraform plan command (similar to git diff output) is used to create an execution plan. Terraform performs a refresh, and then…

Kafka is a really powerful distributed publish / subscribe software that helps you build complex asynchronous applications. GumGum was an early adopter of this technology and is nowadays running hundreds of brokers across multiple clusters. Kafka monitoring is a must Kafka cluster operations are a thing on their own (scaling clusters in and out, recovering…