AWS

When I first started consulting with NuID almost 2 years ago, one of our objectives was to bake DevOps into the culture. Given our choice to rely heavily on serverless to keep initial costs down, it was essential…

As a follow up to my “Datomic with Terraform” post and talk, I’d like to discuss how to use Datomic’s HTTP Direct feature with API Gateway. While the Cognitect tutorial can be helpful initially (I mean, hey, that’s where I started), there are a few things that…

I recently gave a talk at Clojure/Conj 2019:

Terraform is a powerful tool for orchestrating cloud infrastructure, and, arguably, an essential tool once your infrastructure reaches a certain scale (or crosses cloud providers). After having written over 40,000 lines of Terraform configuration in HCL over the…

Over the past 10 months, my team at Work & Co and I have been designing and building an ad tech platform. Our goal with the system was to rapidly and iteratively develop a high quality, scalable platform while minimizing the client’s ongoing operational costs and…

Over the past few months, I’ve been using Terraform and CodePipeline to automate deployment of Lambda functions across multiple AWS accounts for a platform we’re building at Work & Co. I’ve created an example on GitHub here. I…