Paul Duvall, Stelligent CTO and Co-Founder, has been named an AWS Community Hero. The AWS Community Heroes program is designed to recognize and honor individuals who have had a real impact within the AWS community. Among those are AWS experts who go above and beyond to share their experience and knowledge through social media, blogs, events, user Read more…
I recently had the opportunity to attend an AWS bootcamp Herndon, VA office and a short presentation given by their team on Designing for Failure. It opened my eyes to the reality of application design when dealing with failure or even basic exception handling. One of the defining characteristics between a good developer and a Read more…
You’ll learn how to provision a CodeCommit Git repository in a CloudFormation template. Furthermore, you’ll discover how to automate the provisioning of a deployment pipeline that uses this repository as its Source action to deploy an application using CodeDeploy to an EC2 instance. You’ll see examples, patterns and a short video that walks you through the process. Read more…
Deploying SpringBoot microservices into ECS with CloudFormation Read more…
If you’re a member of the tech industry then you’ve probably had to work with legacy code — those ancient systems that just hold everything together. Not every project is greenfield, thus “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” by Michael Feathers is a book that has a reputation that would provide a good insight into how Read more…
In the last post we created two basic applications each with a basic shell script to automate deploying them into AWS. In this post we will continue refactoring those deploy scripts to work on getting them setup using a common pipeline. We are aiming to have the pipeline executable code configured through metadata allowing us Read more…
Create a complete working software system that can be launched from a single button. Read more…
In this blog post, we will cover developing nix packages and testing them in docker. We will set up a container with the proper environment to build nix packages, and then we will test build existing packages from the nixpkgs repo. This lays the foundation for using docker to test your own nix packages. First, a quick introduction Read more…
We often overlook similarities between new CD Pipeline code we’re writing today and code we’ve already written. In addition, we might sometimes rely on the ‘copy, paste, then modify’ approach to make quick work of CD Pipelines supporting similar application architectures. Despite the short-term gains, what often results is code sprawl and maintenance headaches. This blog post series is aimed at helping to Read more…
In this first post of a series exploring containerized CI solutions, I’m going to be addressing the CI tool with the largest market share in the space: Jenkins. Whether you’re already running Jenkins in a more traditional virtualized or bare metal environment, or if you’re using another CI tool entirely, I hope to show you Read more…