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• On Being a High-Performance “Contender”

  By Austin Thomé on 1 Aug 2021

  

  I recently saw the movie “On the Waterfront“, starring Marlon Brando. It was a phenomenal movie and I can undersand why it’s considered a classic. In it, Brando’s character delivers his famous line: “I coulda been a contender!” He had… Read More ›

• Intro to Terraform Pt 2: The Building Basics

  By Austin Thomé on 5 Jun 2021

  

  As discussed in part one of the Intro to Terraform series, Terraform is a declarative language which can be used to manage cloud resources in an Infrastructure-as-Code approach. For someone like myself – coming from a traditional IT background with… Read More ›

• Intro to Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code

  By Austin Thomé on 3 Jun 2021

  

  Building a house is big work. Could you build a house on your own, given the tools and materials? With enough Googling and DIY Youtube videos, I’m sure you could. But how long would that take? Years? I know I… Read More ›