Posts Tagged guest-post

Danny Zalkind is the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering for Skai, an award-winning intelligent marketing platform. He brings his 15 years of experience of managing tech teams to his current role where he’s dedicated to allow Skai R&D to efficiently produce and serve software. You can find him on Linkedin. As Skai continues its journey towards fully migrating to the cloud using Pulumi, we’ve taken another large bite out of the migration pie, moving our most critical data to AWS on top of Amazon Keyspaces, an Apache Cassandra–compatible database service.

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Denis Willett is a software engineer at the North Carolina Institute of Climate Studies who works on the NOAA Open Data Dissemination Program. His work focuses on leveraging cloud technologies for the development of data processing and machine learning pipelines. Denis did his PhD in Entomology and Nematology at University of Florida and his undergraduate and masters work in Earth Systems at Stanford University. You can read his full bio here.

NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) makes environmental data freely and publicly accessible across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These data include near real-time satellite imagery, weather models, radar feeds, drought information, ocean databases, and a suite of climate data records among many others. This program supports more than 220 datasets and over 24PB of open data. Since its inception, the program has been growing rapidly, almost doubling in size over the past year.

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Danny Zalkind is the DevOps group manager for Skai, an award-winning intelligent marketing platform. He brings his 15 years of exprience of managing tech teams to his current role where he’s dedicated to allow Skai R&D to efficiently produce and serve software. You can find him on Linkedin.

Skai is an independent, global marketing platform for strategy, measurement, and best-of-breed activation across all of the world’s most influential digital channels. Skai’s solution provides data-driven insights and optimization technology to help companies make informed decisions and scale performance across critical publishers.

Skai possesses a highly technical engineering organization with over 350 software engineers, data experts, and DevOps engineers.

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Joshua Studt is a Solutions Architect at Financial Independence Group and a Pulumi Community member who contributed the C# package for Automation API. Currently available in public preview, Pulumi’s Automation API enables you to provision your infrastructure programmatically using the Pulumi engine. Today, we are excited to announce C# support for Automation API, enabling .NET developers to automate infrastructure deployments, create complex orchestration workflows, build custom ops tooling, and build cloud frameworks.

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Guest Article: Andy Davies is a Senior Software Developer at Reaktor, a tech company based in Amsterdam, New York, and Finland, writing about using the Pulumi Automation API to add observability to infrastructure provisioning.

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Guest author Lead Devops Engineer Fernando Carletti, writes about using the Pulumi Auth0 provider to manage resources at Credijusto.

Auth0 allows you to simplify your authentication process. The Auth0 Provider allows you to manage the Auth0 resources, managing Applications, Databases, Social Connections, APIs, and other resources. Here at Credijusto we use it manage authentication from the front-end through all the APIs that serve that request, leveraging the complexity of the authentication to Auth0.

For this article, we will start a new Pulumi project in a fresh Auth0 account and fully configure it for a backend and a single page application and set up a connection to Github which allows you apps to authenticate with it using OAuth.

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This guest blog was contributed by Andrew Kunzel and Michael Goode of Pinpoint. Andrew is the Director of Backend Engineering, and Michael is a Platform Operations Engineer.

At Pinpoint, Kubernetes is the most powerful tool in our arsenal. It allows us to deploy and rapidly scale our applications with speed and efficiency that continues to delight our customers. In recent years, managed services like AWS EKS have made it easier than ever to leverage the power of Kubernetes in even the smallest of organizations. Yet even with these new conveniences, managing all of this infrastructure can be a daunting task. Right out of the gate, we knew that we wanted to avoid the burden of maintaining repositories full of home-brewed deployment scripts and domain-specific languages like YAML.

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Guest Article: Itamar Syn-Hershko, Founder and CTO of BigData Boutique shows how they use Pulumi to benchmark Elasticsearch configurations across cloud providers. Pulumi enables BigData Boutique to test deployments in parallel and gather metrics to produce performant and cost-effective solutions for its customers.

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We are always excited when people join the Infrastructure as Code community and write about their experiences. Pulumi can be used for a range of common tasks such as standardizing VPC builds, building VSphere virtual machines, or deploying your infrastructure from a CI/CD pipeline. Whether it’s TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python you can build your infrastructure with your language and tools of choice. Here are three new blog posts that show how to use Pulumi with code examples to perform these tasks.

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Guest Author: Chris Toomey, Solution Architect Lead @ Mapbox

With 8 billion+ connected IoT devices and 2 billion GPS-equipped smartphones already online, logistics businesses are tracking assets at every step in the supply chain. At this scale and complexity, it is imperative to have a flexible way to ingest, process, and act upon this data, without sacrificing security or best practices.

To meet this need, Mapbox has created an Asset Tracking Solution that uses Pulumi’s open source JavaScript libraries (AWS, AWSX) available with multi-language support with Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS. Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS is an open source framework that streamlines creation, deployment and management of AWS services with built-in AWS Best Practices and minimal lines of code in common programming languages.

In this blog, we will show snippets of the Javascript code that embraces the power of Pulumi to program AWS service APIs to create the Mapbox solution. To see the full architecture in action with a live bike race across America, please refer to this webinar recorded on June 13th 2019 and the Mapbox asset tracking solution. Also refer to this blog of the Race across America showcased live during the webinar tomorrow.

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