Building the Machine
I wrote recently about the difference between easy and simple.1 That post was philosophical. This one is not. This is what it looks like in practice. I have been building an AWS operations toolkit using Swamp. The toolkit investigates outages. It runs daily health checks. It composes nine separate extensions into two workflows that gather data from CloudWatch, X-Ray, EC2, Lambda, and load balancers, then produce an actionable report. This is the machine that builds the machine. Not the code. The system that produces the code and makes sense of the output. ...