Spooky: Platform Strategy Awakens
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IxC: Infrastructure as Code, from Code, with Code
Today’s cloud automation goes far beyond provisioning servers. Let’s apply architecture models to the latest trends.
Application Architecture as Code
Cloud automation isn’t just about infrastructure anymore. This also affects automation language design.
Cloud Automation à la DDD: From stringly typed to affordances
Domain-driven design very much applies to technical domains. Let’s try it on event-driven cloud systems to see why I am such a big fan of object-oriented automation languages.
Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions
As the complexity of our platforms increases, we keep looking for better abstractions. Cloud compilers might help, but only if they include one key feature: the stack trace
I made everything loosely coupled. Will my cloud bill go up?
Loose coupling is an essential property of fine-grained, event-driven systems. However, cloud resources that decouple event producers and consumers incur a run-time cost. How to weigh the trade-offs?
Moving to the Engine Room - For real
When working for a product company, there’s no better place than working on product.
Debugging Architects
Whether architects must code or not has been much debated. Why not try debugging?
Transformation Agents: An Engagement Model
No one can transform an organization from the outside. But on the inside you’re bound by legacy rules. Catch-22?
Every Constraint is an Opportunity
You can make transformation lemonade from organizational lemons–sweetened up with the right dose of creativity.
Good abstractions are obvious but difficult to find, even in the cloud
Cloud automation using object-oriented languages gives us the power of abstraction. But those abstractions aren’t easy to come by.