Infrastructure as code (IaC) is a growing trend as the devops became the standard to delivery applications. As such, cloud providers have each, their own way of offering infrastructure, in the past, administrators had to manually execute commands on the servers and manually provide resources (which it’s the case until today).
This post goes through my journey that started at least five years ago with testable code, specifically using Test-Driven Development (TDD). I remember when I found it out it was a moment of magic, even though, it took some time for me to realize that TDD changed my way of thinking. Not just about my code, but about software development in general. Throughout this post, there are references on the first TDD international conference, XP and agile, if some of them is not familiar to you, feel free to jump to the references.
Extreme programming (XP) is a methodology focused on the technical and social aspect of software development. It focuses on two main pillars - agile and technical excellence. Technical excellence is the structure that allows teams to be agile. On the other hand SCRUM is the methodology that got traction and is the most adopted by the industry as a means to “be agile”. Therefore, as already explored by Martin Fowler SCRUM has a place in the party, but is not the main course.
