Auto-Generating Terraform State Storage in Azure

Solving the Terraform Chicken and Egg Problem

In my latest Azure/Terraform post, I touched on how I solved the “Chicken and Egg” problem with Terraform: how you need cloud resources in order to store Terraform state, but you can’t use Terraform to generate those cloud resources. This post details the solution to that problem.

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Azure and Terraform

I have always believed that Delivery is one of the most important aspects of software development. I blogged about it previously (My Core Values). Software delivery isn’t just putting the bits into the final resting location; it must also include the infrastructure provisioning to explicitly define where the bits will actually land. Terraform helps bridge that gap, especially given a public cloud offering like Azure.

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Code Review Best Practices

I am a firm believer in delivery high-quality code at all times. As such, anytime the committer of code isn’t the only person looking at the code before it goes live, we can be reasonably certain that the quality of the code will increase.

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What Makes a Senior Developer

In my current job, I’m frequently asked to interview new candidates to join our development organization. One of the first questions that always gets asked, either by me or one of my colleagues, is “What level is this person interviewing for?” There really are only two answers for this question where I work: Developer or Senior Developer.

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Working With Legacy Code

Precursor: I’ve been working with a significantly large legacy codebase for over three years now. Here are some tips, tricks, and general pointers to make sure you don’t make the same mistakes I’ve made with legacy code.

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