Posts Tagged enterprise

How a Bank Modernized Its Software Engineering With Infrastructure as Code Automation

How a Bank Modernized Its Software Engineering With Infrastructure as Code Automation

This blog post summarizes a presentation by Dennis Sauvé at PulumiUP 2023. Washington Trust Bank, the largest independently-owned full-service commercial bank in the Northwest, has served personal, private, commercial and wealth management clients throughout the region since 1902. It has assets exceeding $11 billion and currently has 42 branches and offices in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. As an FDIC-governed financial institution, it is imperative for the bank to maintain secure, reliable, and compliant cloud resources to protect clients’ personal data.

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Organizing AWS Accounts With Pulumi

Organizing AWS Accounts With Pulumi

In an enterprise organization, an IT self-service “vending machine” allows employees to quickly and easily request and receive access to pre-approved cloud resources. Behind the scenes, Pulumi programs may orchestrate any of the requisite resources. We will look at an example of using Pulumi to create an AWS child account, within an AWS Organization.

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Pulumi and RedMonk on developer-first infrastructure and why it matters

Pulumi and RedMonk on developer-first infrastructure and why it matters

What do assembly languages and the cloud have in common? Are abstractions the future of cloud computing? What does “infrastructure” really mean? And why do these questions matter to the platform engineers, infrastructure engineers, and developers who are building modern cloud applications today? Joe Duffy (Founder & CEO, Pulumi) and James Governor (Co-founder, RedMonk) recently answered these questions and more in a conversation about developer-first infrastructure. Developer-first infrastructure means empowering developers to build and deploy modern cloud applications and infrastructure through the use of software engineering practices that tame modern cloud complexity.

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