Posts Tagged architecture-as-code

Hello! A few weeks back I wrote a post on serving static websites on AWS with Pulumi detailing how to host a static website on AWS. Pulumi allowed me to wire four different AWS products together in only 200 lines of code. It would be a shame, however if I needed to copy and paste that code every time I wanted to to stand up a new website. Instead, we can package up, share, and reuse our code just like any other Node.js library. It just so happens that this one can be used to create cloud infrastructure.

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Whether it’s an IoT installation, a website, or a mobile app, modern software systems generate a trove of usage and performance data. While it can be daunting to collect and manage, surfacing data empowers the business to make informed product investments. In this article, we’ll explore the following:

1. An overview of the traditional Redshift analytics stack on AWS, the use cases it excels at, and where it falls apart.
2. An alternative architecture utilizing serverless and streaming.
3. How to implement this architecture as code in a reusable library with Pulumi.
4. How to automate the development loop when writing Pulumi libraries.

If you’d like to follow along, you can clone and run the reference implementation. If you’re new to Pulumi, you can follow this guide to get started.

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Abstraction is key to building resilient systems because it encapsulates behavior and decouples code, letting each component perform its function independently. The same principles apply to infrastructure, where we want to declare behavior or state and not implementation details. As an industry, we’ve moved away from monolithic applications to distributed systems such as serverless, microservices, Kubernetes, and virtual machine deployments. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the characteristics of these architectures and how Pulumi can abstract the components that comprise these systems.

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In a previous article, we presented an overview of four infrastructure patterns for deploying modern applications. The article reviewed virtual machines, serverless, Kubernetes, and microservices. In this post, we’ll examine virtual machines in-depth.

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This article is the third in a series about Architecture as Code. The first article provided an overview of virtual machines, microservices, serverless, and Kubernetes. The second one went in-depth on deploying virtual machines as reusable components. In this third installment, we’ll look at microservices and how to implement them as reusable components with Pulumi.

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In this fourth installment of Architecture as Code series, we’ll take a look at serverless, an architectural pattern that has quickly gained popularity among cloud practitioners. There are two reasons why serverless usage has proliferated: a cost-saving pay as you go model and elasticity that goes from zero to as many as needed to complete the task without managing servers.

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This is the fifth and last installment of the Architecture as Code series. In previous articles, we examined how to create reusable components for the primary architectural patterns for cloud infrastructure. Starting with virtual machines, we examined how to create and configure VMs. In the follow-up article, we demonstrated how to create reusable components from resources that comprise a microservices architecture. After microservices, we looked at serverless architecture, which despite its name, also requires additional resources to deploy a function or application. In this article, we’ll look at deployment patterns for Kubernetes with a focus on multi-tenancy issues.

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