Automating repo scaffolding with Azure DevOps

Integrating Cookiecutter with yaml pipelines in Azure DevOps to automatically scaffold repos, provides a simple and repeatable workflow and further minimises manual effort. This will show how we can set up this automation in DevOPs via yaml pipelines.

Mar 2023

Using cookiecutter hooks to enhance code scaffolding

Using cookiecutter to scaffold code repositories offers useful way kick start projects. To enhance the user experience even more, this post will look at using hooks to perform actions such as input validation and clean up activities.

Jan 2023

Scaffolding repos with cookiecutter

For code development projects, we often end up creating code repositories (repos) that have similar structures or components to what we have previously used.

Jan 2023
Opinion

Moving to a Hugo static site

In this post, I'll share my motivations and experiences of moving my blog, towards the end of 2021, from Wix to a Hugo static site.

Dec 2021
Opinion

Cutting code and architects

Over the years working on data platforms, I have seen architects writing less and less code, to the point where in more recent times, a seemingly growing number of architects (in data projects) are writing no code at all.

Feb 2021