Devops on Jeiman Jeya

The Rise of Platform Engineering: Why It's Essential for Your Organisation

tech@jeiman.dev (Jeiman Jeya) — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Evolution of DevOps - The Golden Age

Let’s wind the clock back a couple of decades to the late 90s and early 2000s, a time when most organisations had a single gatekeeper: the system or IT administrator. If engineering teams needed to run their applications on production servers, they had to ask for help, creating silos that led to poor experiences on both sides: miscommunications, a decrease in engineering velocity, and slower time-to-market.

What is DevOps?

tech@jeiman.dev (Jeiman Jeya) — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

DevOps is more than just a software development methodology – it’s a culture. The DevOps culture emphasizes 3 main pillars: collaboration, communication, and shared responsibility between development and operations teams. In this post, we will discuss the importance of DevOps culture in software development and how developers and operations teams can benefit from it.

DevOps is not a Title

This conundrum needs to be addressed. If you’ve seen career titles such as DevOps Manager, and DevOps Lead, it means those individuals are managing the DevOps culture in that team. The title does not necessarily imply the term literally.

Let's Dive into AWS Lambda

tech@jeiman.dev (Jeiman Jeya) — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

What is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is a serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. With over 200 AWS services and SaaS applications that can trigger Lambda, the possibilities are endless. Some application use-case includes:

Terraforming in the Cloud

tech@jeiman.dev (Jeiman Jeya) — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This post discusses the benefits of using Terraform for cloud automation. It explains the limitations of manual infrastructure management, the inception of IaC and how Terraform can help mitigate those issues. The document covers topics such as the Terraform configuration language, backends, workspaces, and Terraform Cloud while using AWS as a cloud provider example.