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Tidy Cloud AWS issue #19

Hello all! Welcome to the next issue of the Tidy Cloud AWS bulletin! This issue of the bulletin talks about CDK Day, CDK for Terraform, Dagger, and Code Tour. Enjoy!…

Tidy Cloud AWS issue #18

Hello all! Welcome to the next issue of the Tidy Cloud AWS bulletin! This issue of the bulletin is focused on the term Cloud Native, with a splash of Nix.

How to set up ad hoc (developer) environments

Have you had a task to fix a supposedly simple thing in a project, a code or configuration change, only to spend most of the time to set up the environment so you can do the fix in the first place?

The setup you just did for this now clutter your setup, and conflicts with other projects? In order to get back to your old working environment, you have to do some re-installs of software packages?

Understanding configuration complexity

Have you struggled with increasing complexity of managing and maintaining software configuration? Some time ago, I saw a reference to what was called the Configuration Complexity Clock. It describes phases in how the complexity of software configuration grows. This name originally came from a blog post by Mike Hadlow in 2012.

This is something we should know and think about before we end up in a bad, unmaintainable place.

Comment system added to website

I use Publii for managing this website, which is a pretty nice static site generator and content management system. However, it only has built-in support for Disqus as a comment…