I’d like to share my experience of encountering Hotwire from the team at Basecamp which was extracted from the tooling used to build their Hey product. I was so pleased to see DHH tweet about it and took some time over my end-of-year vacation to delve into it.

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Introduction

I first encountered Pulumi a few years ago when I was getting a little frustrated at the lack of some expressibility in Terraform. I’ve been using Terraform from almost day 1 and it really does the job well — providing you really grok its declarative nature, are very good at…

When developing software, particularly with larger cloud-based distributed systems, there are often a few secrets that need to be disseminated in a secure manner amongst the developers and to the services that use them to unlock credentials.

In systems with many credentials, services, and instances, storage of these secrets is…

Having RESTful components programmatically traverse links in hypermedia — much like you just did when you clicked on a link to get here — is an appealing capability. A format like HAL is useful for a resource to dynamically augment itself at run time with links to other resources. But…

Around July last year, with the introduction of some new components in the systems we build at mPort, we also introduced some new CI/CD tooling. I’m experienced with the tools built by previous companies I’ve worked for (particularly ThoughtWorks and Atlassian), so GoCD and Bamboo were good candidates. Jenkins was…

Here at mPort, we have a multi-platform technology team (Windows, macOS, Linux). This brings interesting challenges when collaborating on the same components. Docker is an obvious choice to mitigate those challenges, but it introduces a few more corkers along the way.

This post is about the journey of us trying…