Aydrian Howard

Aydrian Howard

Staff Developer Advocate

Pulumi Meetup: APIs, Custom Resources and GitHub Webhooks

Pulumi Meetup: APIs, Custom Resources and GitHub Webhooks

Last Wednesday, we invited members of our local Seattle community to Pulumi HQ for the July Pulumi Up meetup. The evening began with some networking time wherein our guests met some Pulumi engineers and users they may have only ever interacted with over Pulumi’s Community Slack while enjoying free pizza and beverages. This month’s meetup featured two talks by Pulumi engineers.

Application code isn’t the only code that can have APIs

Unfortunately, due to travel issues, Paul Stack wasn’t able to join us in person, but graciously agreed to present remotely… from Europe… at 4:00 in the morning. He presented “Application code isn’t the only code that can have APIs” and went over how programming languages help in building the best infrastructure code. During the talk, he presented a simple Pulumi program for creating an RDS instance and walked through the simple programming constructs he utilized to help create APIs that anyone could code against. Here’s a recording of his talk, with the video also available on the Pulumi TV YouTube Channel.

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