Terraform: Up & Running, 2nd edition has been published!
Terraform: Up & Running, 2nd edition, has been published! The 2nd edition is nearly double the length of the 1st edition (~160 more pages), including two com...
Terraform: Up & Running, 2nd edition Early Release is now available!
Today, I have two exciting announcements to share:
How we got to $1 million in annual recurring revenue with $0 in fundraising
In March, 2016, Josh and I each took $2,500, put it in a bank account, and filed the paperwork to found Gruntwork. That $5,000—the minimum you need to open most b...
The 10:1 rule of writing and programming
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. — Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
How we built a distributed, self-funded, family-friendly, profitable startup
We started Gruntwork in 2016 with two goals: (1) make it 10x easier to understand, build, and deploy software and (2) build a company where we can work on intere...
Reusable, composable, battle-tested Terraform modules
Listen up, developers. You are not special. Your infrastructure is not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You have the same tech debt as everyone else. So why are...
Yak Shaving Series #1: All I need is a little bit of disk space
I just published the first entry in The Yak Shaving Series, where we share stories of some of the unexpected, bizarre, painful, and time-consuming problems we’ve...
Introducing: The Yak Shaving Series
Today, we are kicking off a series of blog posts where we share the pain of DevOps through short stories: Introducing: The Yak Shaving Series.
Startup DNA: the formula behind successful startups in Silicon Valley
“Successful startups are all alike; every unsuccessful startup is unsuccessful in its own way.”
The Truth About Startups
Today, I’m happy to share the video and slides of a talk I gave at the MIT Martin Center for Entrepreneurship, as well as the Trinity College Blackstone Launchpad...