Internal developer tools enhance engineering efficiency by addressing frequent, cross-team pain points that consume time and incur risks. Successful tools should be fast, predictable, self-service, integrated, and owned. Key ideas include local development bootstrappers, deploy tools, and secret management workflows. Avoid building full-time products from scratch unless necessary.
This is still in progress but the new menu service is now in place and the old title bar is gone and has started to be replaced by a more modern looking sidebar.
So, some actual progress on productizing my AWS Desktop Management tool called ezConsole this week. For a little while now I have had the task on my ClickUp board to build out the infrastructure deployment pipeline for the landing page…. Read More ›
This week has been a holiday but I have been able to put a few hours of working on the landing page while sat in front of the fire in the evenings. I feel it has turned out relatively well,… Read More ›
A short update today, I played around with adding some animations to the landing page banner and email button. I think it’s looking cool, will need an image next.
So, a key part of the landing page is to excite the viewer into signing up. To do this I need to get the main features of the app over to the user in a clean and simple way. To… Read More ›
So based on my previous post, Work holts on the app, you may have seen that my next goal is to build a landing page for the Git CodeCommit app. Now I don’t particularly have any money for this project so… Read More ›
So the task for the evening is to allow the user to drill down into a selected repository from within the list repo’s page. To start with a little UI tweak to capture the user clicking the card seems the… Read More ›
So what is GitOps you may ask? Firstly, I wouldn’t say that GitOps is a particularly new concept. GitOps is more of a re-badging of some existing processes that are combined together. The main idea behind GitOps is that it… Read More ›
So I wanted to add a favourites option to the list of repos in the form of “staring” the favourite repositories. The Idea with creating a favourites option is that I’ll show the favourite repositories on the home page so… Read More ›
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