Julie Ng

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Infrastructure as Code and Monorepos - a Pragmatic Approach

5 Jan 2022

As engineers move beyond “hello world” samples, they can struggle extending the code to multiple deployment targets and creating automation pipelines. How can we structure code for re-use and automation and ensure we won’t accidentally deploy to production? →

CI/CD Review - How DevOps in Real Life & Mature Organizations works

1 Mar 2021

People love checklists because they give the illusion of an easy success. But DevOps is not straight-forward and looks different for each team and application. That is why I conduct reviews with Azure customers as an engineer at Microsoft in an interview-style discussion. And like an interview, I’m not challenging your answers, but your thought process. →

ARM Templates vs Terraform vs Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in 2021

26 Jan 2021

A few years ago Pulumi introduced code-native programming language for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), bringing it closer to the developer and their existing skillset. Fast-forward to 2021 and Microsoft and HashiCorp are playing catch-up to Pulumi and to each other. To help you choose IaC technology, let’s look at IaC programming languages for short-term developer happiness and code re-use for long-term productivity. →

Terraform on Azure Pipelines Best Practices

14 Jan 2021

Azure Pipelines and Terraform make it easy to get started deploying infrastructure from templates. But how do you go from sample code to real life implementation, integrating git workflows with deployments and scaling across across multiple teams? Here are 5 Best Practices to get you started on the right foot. →

Creating Monorepo Pipelines in Azure DevOps

25 Mar 2020

Although uncommon, there are valid reasons to have a monorepo - a single git repository for multiple projects, for example migration projects. Until yesterday, I thought this was not possible in Azure DevOps. →

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