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How To Use `dotenv` Files In Production (Don't)

Don’t use .env files in prod Why? Getting the environment setup for an application is a long-solved problem that is well handled by all deployment systems Getting the .

Automatically Provision VMs With No Build Pipeline: Cloud-Init

Intro On almost every cloud provider today, you can run a script on instance startup that allows you to do whatever setup tasks you need.

So You Want To Release a Web App

So you started working on or about to start making your first web app?

NAT Gateways Are Overused

Since 2015, we’ve been gifted with AWS’s Managed NAT Gateway offering, and the vast majority of AWS architecture diagrams contain them.

Story Time: I broke the website

I caught the Portuguese Death Sniffles and had to delay my educational content for this week, but rest assured I have your back for devops-related content.

5 Tips for Production-Ready Code

5 Tips for Production-Ready Code Most code that gets put into production doesn’t start its life that way.

Python is great (except when it isn’t) In this article, I want to go over how to avoid all the usual Python problems encountered when SREs/engineers first start using it, and provide guidance on best practices.

Cloudformation for Poets

CloudFormation is AWS’s Infrastructure as Code service. Most engineers prefer Terraform (and increasingly, Pulumi) for its much more concise format, and flexibility.