HashiCorp’s Waypoint is an innovative solution to deploying applications quickly to an environment while reducing the complexity often associated with a release process. As an application developer, you can deploy an application through a single command, waypoint up . There are no makefiles, no CI/CD, just a single command, and…

If you find yourself authoring several AWS lambdas for a serverless application architecture, you might have encountered this error: An error occurred: mySweetLambda– Code storage limit exceeded. (Service: AWSLambda; Status Code: 400; Error Code: CodeStorageExceededException; Request ID: 05d3ae68-a7c2-a3e8-948e-41c2739638af). The first time I encountered this error I wasn’t quite sure what…

If you are reading this then chances are you are one of the many builders who have eagerly anticipated a code signing functionality to be released from AWS. For those that are a bit unsure of what exactly code signing is, just think of it as a mechanism that verifies…

Chances are most of us have unique situations for wanting to interact with DynamoDB locally, maybe it’s to develop and test different data models, perhaps it’s to develop programmatic functions to interact with the database, perhaps you want to reduce development expenses, or perhaps you’re just doing research. Regardless of…

Chances are most of us have stumbled into someone’s digital portfolio. This can range from book authors to IT professionals, it’s pretty universal as everyone can benefit from it. …

HashiCorp has added two new tools in Terraform. As of Terraform v.12.20 there are two new functions available for consumers try() and can(). Along with these two functions, there is an experimental feature available, variable_validation. …

There is no easy button! We have all been there, feeling stuck, unsure of how to move to the next level. This can apply to your current job role or career as a whole. And unfortunately, this feeling of being trapped is also not a one-time incident, sometimes we can…

Sentinel is HashiCorp’s framework for the implementation of Policy as Code (PaC). It integrates with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and allows teams/organizations to be proactive from a compliance/risk standpoint. Sentinel allows for granular, logic-based policy decisions that reads information from external sources to derive a decision. In plain English, based…

The explosion of public cloud platforms has made the accessibility and consumption of IT infrastructure an uncomplicated experience. The traditional IT infrastructure found in vast and expensive corporate data centers can now be consumed by anyone with an internet connection. …