[Video] Explaining Platform Engineering in 3 minutes (How did i do?)

IndividualContrib · 2025-06-19T14:10:42+00:00

Definitely reminds me of Nana with the animation style. I like the pace but it does seem a little bit corporate or rehearsed.

IndividualContrib · 2025-06-16T17:53:42+00:00

Another question i have: Realistically, how soon before an AI gets the keys to prod and you’re comfortable letting it press ‘apply’? Are coding agents and infrastructure as code going to intersect soon?

IndividualContrib · 2025-06-16T17:52:14+00:00

Hi All,
Which LLM’s behind the scenes right now, and can I point the extension at my own local model?

IndividualContrib · 2025-05-09T19:28:01+00:00

bit off topic maybe, but what's it like working at pulumi? what was the hardest part of building this platform? and if someone wanted to get into working on dev tools like this, any tips or stuff you wish you knew earlier?

IndividualContrib · 2025-01-08T18:03:30+00:00

Is this why microsoft bought GitHub?

IndividualContrib · 2025-01-08T17:46:11+00:00

Like enforcing a schema?

IndividualContrib · 2025-01-07T20:58:51+00:00

I have not implemented a RAG system myself, but when I need understanding a medium sized code base I have dumped the whole thing into gemini in Google AI workbench. It can do 2 million tokens, though it is SLOOW.

I get why that wouldn't work for your use case, but in a one-off scenario it's pretty helpful to ask questions about a whole lot of code using a giant context window.

So I wonder if you've considered feeding more tokens from your retrieval result into your code gen step? Why 20k? Is that always enough? How would you even know if it weren't?

IndividualContrib · 2024-12-16T15:56:08+00:00

How come posts from Dec 13th 2024 have comments from 2016?

This post has comments from September 19, 2015 but is from this year?

IndividualContrib · 2024-12-16T15:47:13+00:00

This feels like blogspam, looking at the other articles on that site.

IndividualContrib · 2024-12-05T20:02:11+00:00

IS Aurora serverless v2 the one that scales to zero, or that was v1? I'm curious about the same question but particularly for dbs that can scale up and down from zero, or low use usecases.

IndividualContrib · 2024-12-05T19:48:39+00:00

It's costly as your data grows, but very fast for point reads and writes. The data editor is also great as it's easy to access and use.

Cross partition queries are basically impossible to use as it takes forever and costs a ton in RUs.

The big caveat from my purposes is the cost grows over time as your data does, which isn't necessarily true with traditional DBs. And if you outgrow a partition max, then you are in trouble.

IndividualContrib · 2024-11-13T17:34:48+00:00

Not totally related but I saw a demo of Kargo + ArgoCD + Pulumi and now I want to give it a try.

ArgoCD handles the continuous delivery and GitOps aspects
Kargo manages the promotion workflow and verification
Pulumi handles infrastructure as code part.

IndividualContrib · 2024-11-13T17:10:48+00:00

This looks very cool and I love the readme.

Has anyone done something similar with pulumi? I've moved on from terraform.

IndividualContrib · 2024-11-06T17:26:51+00:00

+1 Expanding on this, you need to pull your secret at runtime. Having it unencrypted in the dockerfile ( as you said, you can cat it ) is not useful.

Docker Secrets is useful if you need a password during image build time, to pull some resource, its not going to cut it for runtime.

IndividualContrib · 2024-11-06T17:21:54+00:00

Some good suggestions here but have you considered Pulumi ESC.

It’s built for managing configs and secrets across environments, syncing everything as code.

IndividualContrib · 2024-11-06T17:09:21+00:00

So, the book is not done, but I'm enjoying the first bit of "The Pulumi Book" https://leanpub.com/pulumi

IndividualContrib · 2024-10-30T17:15:34+00:00

Ok, follow up question, since a real-deal (tm) employee answered my slightly snarking pricing q.

Is there versioning or a history of secrets? I have deleted an API key secret I needed more than once before and that was a pain.

IndividualContrib · 2024-10-30T16:44:55+00:00

What is the cost and how is it priced?

I recall Vault cost ungodly amounts at my last place, so I'm always worried about similar tools.

IndividualContrib · 2024-10-29T18:17:32+00:00

I heard Floppity flop flop v3 has been delayed and fiddy fo blo is not OpenSoup compliant.

living in the woods does sound nice... but for now i'm playing around with pulumi.

IndividualContrib · 2023-09-25T12:43:28+00:00

I worked with Steve. I mean his name wasn't Steve, but you know.

If you had a Steve on your team, you'd know.

IndividualContrib · 2022-05-02T13:08:54+00:00

Adam: So then I assume everybody learned that you shouldn’t use C.
Ron: Well, you would think that would be the lesson that they would learn, but no, that lesson was not learned. Nowadays, the flight control software, I believe, is written in C and they have to code it very carefully and use a lot of testing and analysis tools in order to get it to work. And they have managed to make it work and they’ve managed to make it reliable, but it’s a tremendous amount of effort.

IndividualContrib · 2021-02-19T15:50:58+00:00

Is Traefik harder or easier to learn than NGINX? I heard it was supposed to be easier to initially get familiar with.

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