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Embracing AI is a key accelerator for the modern software development process. Velocity Engineering is a set of techniques and tools that can be used to increase the velocity of your software development process through established and emerging techniques such as vibe coding, agentic development, task manager patterns, automated test coverage and more.
Craig BarrJuly 2A foundational AI agent that can be used to build other agents. This recipe will provide a simple API interface.
Craig BarrJuly 1Unlock the power of Tilt to provide a local developer experience that is as close to production as possible.
Craig BarrJuly 1Establish a generative AI API for your application. This recipe will provide a simple API interface and UI for text-based prompts, image generation and bidirectional speech and text translation. Requires an OpenAI API key and optionally an ElevenLabs API key for text-to-speech.
Craig BarrJanuary 15Supercharge your Github account or organisation through Terraform code. Manage your settings such as branch protections, secure secret management, environments and more with minimal effort, maximal consistency and robust control.
Craig BarrJanuary 11Terraform is the world's most popular infrastructure-as-code solution with support for AWS, GCP and Azure (amongst many others). This recipe will set you up with a production-grade Terraform footprint and patterns for extension. Introduce CI/CD pipelines for your infrastructure powered by remote state management on the cloud of your choice.
Craig BarrJanuary 11Setup your new cloud account the right way, so that you aren't taking any risks from a security perspective. Includes ensuring there are no non-expiring keys for your cloud that could leak and provide keys to the kingdom.
Craig BarrJanuary 10Cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud offer generous cloud credits to subsidise your onboarding. With this platform recipes, we can help you to get the most of the startup credits through a SaaS-agnostic foundation that allows your workloads to run on any of the major cloud providers without major architectural adjustments necessary.
Craig BarrJanuary 10Make it easier to ship your server-side app anywhere by containerising it.
Craig BarrJanuary 8Gain rich developer insights through a single pane of glass for your entire software development lifecycle.
Craig BarrJanuary 8If a hacker gains access to your database credentials, would it be game over for you? This recipe will setup a VPC peering to your database so that you have an extra layer of protection for your data. Even if your credentials were to leak (heaven forbid) your data will not be accessible from the public internet giving you an extra layer of protection and piece of mind.
Craig BarrJanuary 8Are you still using the same database and third-party service tokens and keys that you setup years ago? This secret rotation recipe will give you piece of mind that your credentials are routinely rotated so that even if they were to fall into the wrong hands they probably won't work.
Craig BarrJanuary 8The vercel platform is often the default hosting for Next.js applications. This recipe provides alternative means for deployment while maintaining the same developer experience.
Craig BarrJanuary 8
