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Best Tips for Running Enterprise CI/CD in the Cloud

There are many solutions to building code, some of them are available as cloud services, others run on your own infrastructure, on private clouds or all of the above. They make it easy to create custom pipelines, as well as simple testing and packaging solutions. Some even offer open source feature-limited “community editions” to download and run on-premises for free.

Following is my experience on the important aspects to consider when deciding on a build system for your organization that depends on cloud services. The original intent was to include a detailed review of various online solutions, but I decided to leave that for another time. Instead, I’m speaking more from an enterprise viewpoint, which is closer to reality in a large organization than the usual how-to’s. We’re here to discuss the implications and the practicality of doing so.

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Using GitHub as a Flat Data Store and AWS Lambda to Update it

I spend most of my day, every day, knee deep in code. Optimizing, building, fixing and thinking through workflows can be taxing. This means that the last thing I want to do when I come home is deal with more programming. But I also like learning new things and communicating my experiences so they can help others. I do that through the posts in this website.

Maintaining a web presence without dealing with code means you get to use as many off-the-shelf components as possible. You consider things like WordPress or static site generators that let you concentrate on content, while handling the user interface for you. Write in markdown, build the website, rinse repeat with updates. It’s all very easy, until you need a little more interactivity, like a comments section, or a newsletter signup.