Exploring Dagger: Building a CI/CD pipeline for IaC

Dagger is a new tool that promises to fix the yaml and custom scripts mess that CI/CD currently is by building pipelines as code with one of the supported SDKs. I’m in the process of learning this tool, understanding where it may fall short and where it shines and I decided that sharing some of the exploration I do and the learnings it leaves me with would be useful. This is the first post in a series of blog posts that look at Dagger from different perspectives....

November 13, 2023 · 24 min · matipan

How services are provisioned, deployed and operated at Lemon Cash

Lemon Cash is a crypto startup based in Argentina that operates digital wallets, card payments and more. In this blog post I describe how we implemented a solution for provisioning, deploying and operating services that empowers developers to ship more quickly. This solution is not a fully fledged platform but it provides similar benefits by standing on top of strongly defined concepts and conventions. What we implemented only makes sense in the context in which the company was in, so I will start by explaining what that context was....

October 2, 2022 · 14 min · matipan