Level 0: What it is and why you should care.
What is Infrastructure as Code?
Infrastructure as Code (or IaC) is a process by which you can manage and provision the infrastructure your code will run on using machine-readable, committable, reviewable configuration files.
Why Infrastructure as Code?
In the beginning, there were servers: actual physical machines that existed in the real world as objects. You could touch them. They lived in a data centre across town, a dingy basement, or, if you were really unlucky, a cupboard shared with the cleaner. If you wanted to install or update something you had to connect to the physical machine over the network or a serial interface. …
The Fibonacci sequence is one of the better known sequences of numbers, and one of my favourites. If you’ve never seen it — or, more likely, if you only ever saw it in some long-forgotten maths lesson and need a refresher — here are its first 10 terms:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34
The Fibonacci sequence is defined by the following, recursive, function:
f(n) = f(n-1)+f(n-2)
Starting from:
f(0) = 0 & f(1) = 1
That is, after the first two terms, each successive term is the sum of the two terms before it.
If…
Adam Henley (He/Him)
I’m a Software Developer at Shuttlerock where I write mostly Ruby and Typescript. I also dabble in any language that takes my fancy.
