Posts Tagged hackathon

As part of our hackathon near the end of last year, we decided to explore solutions to a common problem when people are using Pulumi for their systems. A question that’s been asked in a few different forms is how to resolve circular dependencies between resources in a Pulumi program.

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Pulumi’s hackathon tradition continued in the last weeks of 2021 with our 2021 December hackathon. For one solid week, we had teams from across the company focus on improvements across the Pulumi ecosystem, and we brought in people from outside the engineering org to get perspectives on different needs. While there were some projects that were focused on internal work, there were still quite a few open-source projects that we can talk about publicly. We’ll get more details from some of those teams over a few more posts. In this post, however, we’re going to explore a bit about how we worked.

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At Pulumi, we have a tradition of hosting hackathons every so often to play with concepts and ideas that we may not typically encounter in our day-to-day product building activities. This past week, we’ve had two separate back-to-back hackathons. Our first hackathon, which was open to the community, focused on using our new multi-language component capabilities. Multi-language components allow developers to author reusable infrastructure abstractions in one language and make them available to others in all the languages that Pulumi supports. We were really excited to see what everyone would build!

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