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Terraform is an awesome way of managing infrastructure as code. It builds a graph of your definition, compares it to what exists already, and makes only the required changes. It handles dependencies automatically, allowing you to configure cloud resources based on the outputs of others.
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The company I work for is the antithesis of Google; where Google kills products almost religiously, my workplace has deprecated almost nothing in thirty years of existence, but still loves to ship new products and systems.
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If you build and develop a system with paying customers, you know that tracking and publishing service uptime is absolutely critical to build trust. If your customers don’t trust that your system will be up and available when they need it, its unlikely that they will remain your customers for very long. Hosting a central web page where customers can view and track outage events over time builds that trust, and helps with communicating these events as they happen.
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