Coding with Callie

Another great meet-up last night! Thank you so much, Martin Smith 🥳 If you're curious about Site Reliability Engineering, check out Martin's talk: https://lnkd.in/e_6dygYH

Friendly reminder that 'What is Site Reliability Engineering?' is tonight at 8PM EST 🚀

Imagine this...you work on a new feature, push your commits to GitHub, your code is automatically tested for you, and you feel confident you didn't introduce any bugs 🐛 I'm really enjoying Coding with Callie's make it better phase 👩🏻💻

"How can I automate this?" — asked every developer, every day, everywhere. After learning about technologies like Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitHub Actions, I often find myself asking, 'How can I automate this?' Automation is becoming integral to my approach as a developer! Through GitHub Actions, I’ve been able to automate the process of building Docker images, which serve as snapshots of applications, and deploying those applications. Tools like Terraform help automate infrastructure setup, while Kubernetes and Helm simplify the deployment and management of containerized applications, keeping them consistent and scalable. By automating infrastructure and deployment, I’ve learned how to reduce repetitive tasks, enabling me to focus on more critical aspects, such as error handling and bug fixes. Together, these technologies make DevOps more manageable, allowing developers like myself to concentrate on innovating and delivering a more efficient workflow rather than just maintaining. I’ve learned so much throughout the Coding with Callie Deploy in Public course! And there is so much more to learn, which can be overwhelming, but is mostly exciting! If you're working with AWS, exploring any of these technologies, or considering a dive into AWS, feel free to reach out—maybe we can tackle a project together! Here’s a video demonstrating a change I made to my application’s frontend, pushing the change to GitHub to trigger the workflow, followed by a real-time interaction with the updated application.

For the fifth challenge for the Coding with Callie DIP cohort, we deployed the same application as the previous week but automated the steps of building the docker image, uploading it to AWS ECR, pulling it from the EC2s, and running it. We have done that automation using GitHub Actions.

Thus far, I've spent the majority of my time on the Coding with Callie website making it work. This weekend, I moved into my 'make it better' era 📈 I'm refactoring the code to be more readable and testable and adding all the unit tests 🥳👩🏻💻

The newest Coding with Callie website feature is going to save me soooo much time 🥳 What do you think?! 🤔 https://lnkd.in/eNgCuycZ

Did I get home from trick-or-treating and start working on a fun new feature for the Coding with Callie website?! ...yes, yes I did 👩🏻💻 I'm diving into making my website admin friendly. I want to be able to add, edit, delete, move, and style content WITHOUT coding. Making my homepage content editable on the UI is the first step 📈 What do you think?! 🤔

No meet-ups or live coding tonight! Happy Halloween 👻

Yay progress 📈 Daniel Neri added this beautiful upcoming speaker carousel to the Coding with Callie website 🥹 Now users can quickly see upcoming events, add those events to their Google calendar, and see all the event details 🥳 Great work, Daniel!