Reflections of a Pulumi Intern
Hi everyone! I’m Albert, a soon-to-be sophomore studying computer science at the University of Washington. Today marks my last day as a Pulumi intern, so I figure I’d reflect on my experiences up until this point.
Joining Pulumi
I heard of Pulumi for the first time when they visited my school’s career fair in January. As I rounded the corner into the CSE1 atrium, I saw a banner titled “Modern Infrastructure as Code,” with some lines of TypeScript of what appeared to be the creation of an S3 bucket. I found it interesting because it looked so simple and modular. In contrast, when I had played around with AWS in the past to deploy the occasional Django web app, it had always involved following a series of exact instructions (usually go to this dashboard, copy this YAML file, run this command, and pray it works).
