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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Zpiw3oLXwzs37UElBG4mIA.png" /><figcaption>How midjourney imagines my favourite Toolchain, in 4 familiar colors ;)</figcaption></figure>Recently, my alter ego Richard asked a provocative question: are you happy with your toolchain, is it modern enough?Before answering that question, o thought, first I need to assess it and enumerate it. Let’s see 🙈 what toolchain is:<ul><li>Coding IDE: vscode. It is so amazing, I’ve tried something different, the OSS version, but it’s fast, extensible and just wow. The only missing thing is, a fast edit-over-ssh. But it’s not MS fault.</li><li>Favourite language: Ruby. I know what you’re thinking, but it makes me happy, and efficient. I’ve tried other languages and frameworks, and nothing beats RoR in 2022 (I’ve spent 2 weekend to prove myself wrong, failing). If I need efficiency</li><li>App Development: Ruby on Rails. I’ve given Js a go many times, it’s spectacular on many parts, but developing an app in a DRY way (rather than duplicating code for BE/FE) and having a single solid choice over a fragmentation of libs for me wins.</li><li>CI: GCP Cloud Build and <a href="http://skaffoold.dev">skaffold</a>. I might be biased as Googler here.</li><li>CD: Cloud Deploy and GitHub actions. Again, biased 😊</li><li>CI/CD: Skaffold plus GCP tooling on top of github repos. Use kustomize to DRY the manifests.</li><li>Serverless: Cloud Run and App Engine. Never been a huge fan of Cloud functions, or maybe I just don’t get them :)</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_a_service">IaaS</a> : Google Cloud Platform. If you ask my favourite product, I’d say GCE as it was my first love.</li><li>PaaS: App Engine + Heroku.</li><li>SaaS: GitHub, Google Workspace, Atlassian Bitbucket.</li><li>Infra as Code: Pulumi and Terraform. Back in the days, Chef.</li><li>kubernetes: I love GKE remotely, and minikube locally. Kustomize to DRY my manifests. Not a big fan of Helm, tried it and hated it. Kpt is in my TODO list.</li><li>Docker: I love docker-compose, although it doesn’t scale much. For simple single-apps, I use that. For more complex stuff, skaffold.</li><li>Testing: I invented a bash testing suite — a friend told me I’d become famous — I didn’t 😃. Happy to share code with you if you ask, and you’re back to the asylum tonight.</li></ul>More to follow…<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*m80mWeOX7BXq_ooi.png" /><figcaption>Infra as Code is so hot right now!</figcaption></figure><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=831b56ba6fc5" width="1" height="1" alt="">

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content: "<figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Zpiw3oLXwzs37UElBG4mIA.png\"
 /><figcaption>How midjourney imagines my favourite Toolchain, in 4 familiar
 colors ;)</figcaption></figure>Recently, my alter ego Richard asked a provocative
 question: are you happy with your toolchain, is it modern enough?Before answering
 that question, o thought, first I need to assess it and enumerate it. Let’s see
 \U0001F648 what toolchain is:<ul><li>Coding IDE: vscode.
 It is so amazing, I’ve tried something different, the OSS version, but it’s fast,
 extensible and just wow. The only missing thing is, a fast edit-over-ssh. But it’s
 not MS fault.</li><li>Favourite language: Ruby.
 I know what you’re thinking, but it makes me happy, and efficient. I’ve tried other
 languages and frameworks, and nothing beats RoR in 2022 (I’ve spent 2 weekend to
 prove myself wrong, failing). If I need efficiency</li><li>App Development:
 Ruby on Rails. I’ve given Js a go many times, it’s spectacular on many
 parts, but developing an app in a DRY way (rather than duplicating code for BE/FE)
 and having a single solid choice over a fragmentation of libs for me wins.</li><li>CI:
 GCP Cloud Build and <a href=\"http://skaffoold.dev\">skaffold</a>.
 I might be biased as Googler here.</li><li>CD: Cloud Deploy
 and GitHub actions. Again, biased \U0001F60A</li><li>CI/CD:
 Skaffold plus GCP tooling on top of github repos. Use kustomize
 to DRY the manifests.</li><li>Serverless: Cloud Run
 and App Engine. Never been a huge fan of Cloud functions, or maybe
 I just don’t get them :)</li><li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_a_service\">IaaS</a> :
 Google Cloud Platform. If you ask my favourite product, I’d say GCE
 as it was my first love.</li><li>PaaS: App Engine + Heroku.</li><li>SaaS:
 GitHub, Google Workspace, Atlassian Bitbucket.</li><li>Infra as
 Code: Pulumi and Terraform. Back in the
 days, Chef.</li><li>kubernetes: I love GKE
 remotely, and minikube locally. Kustomize to DRY
 my manifests. Not a big fan of Helm, tried it and hated it. Kpt is in my TODO list.</li><li>Docker:
 I love docker-compose, although it doesn’t scale much. For simple
 single-apps, I use that. For more complex stuff, skaffold.</li><li>Testing:
 I invented a bash testing suite — a friend told me I’d become famous — I didn’t
 \U0001F603. Happy to share code with you if you ask, and you’re back to the asylum tonight.</li></ul>More
 to follow…<figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*m80mWeOX7BXq_ooi.png\"
 /><figcaption>Infra as Code is so hot right now!</figcaption></figure><img src=\"https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=831b56ba6fc5\"
 width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\">"
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