Troy Howard

Troy Howard

Principal Technical Content Engineer

Next-level IaC: Bridging the Declarative Gap

Next-level IaC: Bridging the Declarative Gap

Pulumi stands out in the world of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for its flexibility and ease of use. This is due to its unique approach of using general purpose programming languages to describe system configuration. It accomplishes this through a small but brilliant implementation detail that bridges the worlds of declarative and standard programming using asynchronous semantics.

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Next-level IaC: Breakpoint Debugging for Pulumi Programs

Next-level IaC: Breakpoint Debugging for Pulumi Programs

For many of us, life is suspended between presses of the F5 key. Our IDE is the only place where everything is organized and makes sense. And while we know that the likelihood of a code hole-in-one is very rare (that magical moment where you run your build and everything just works the first time), we always hope that this time, this will be the run where you see the output that lets you know you’ve gotten it right. And in between? Debugging.

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Next-level IaC: Powering Up Pulumi with Package Ecosystems

Next-level IaC: Powering Up Pulumi with Package Ecosystems

Every experienced tech professional I know has a programming language they love. But is it the syntax and symbols that make it so loveable? Not really. It’s the community and package ecosystem surrounding the language that makes a real impact on your heart… and on your productivity!

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