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BoltOps Blog
Company blog · blog.boltops.comprogrammingsystems
BoltOps Blog is the company blog at blog.boltops.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Terraspace All: Deploy Multiple Stacks or Terraform Modules at Once”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this multi-part series on Terraform HCL to explain how resources are tracked against desired state and why resources get deleted when an iteration count drops. The comments only cite the series and do not evaluate the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Terraspace All: Deploy Multiple Stacks or Terraform Modules at Once2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-21
What Hacker News says?
Happy to say that Jets is now on the official AWS Ruby runtime: https://blog.boltops.com/2018/12/12/official-aws-ruby-suppor...
Comment linking /2018/12/12/official-aws-ruby-support-for-jets-serverless-framework
on “New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components”Submitted Ruby on Jets 6.0: Rails Support as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWell, ultimately it comes down to "current"(stored) state vs "desired" state, as mentioned in part 6: https://blog.boltops.com/2020/10/06/terraform-hcl-nested-loo... Quote: Consideration: Updates with Removal There’s a subtle but important consideration with the current code. It happens when the code gets updated, particularly when previously added elements are removed. For example, let’s say we first use the code a…
Comment linking /2020/10/06/terraform-hcl-nested-loops/
on “A reasonable configuration language”Submitted Official AWS Ruby Support for Jets Serverless Framework as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHCL has its quirks - bit I'm not entirely sure they are without merit in this case - HCL describes resources - and it's important that when your iteration count goes down, resources are deleted. Some discussion in sections 6, 7 and 8 (linked): https://blog.boltops.com/2020/10/08/terraform-hcl-for-in-and...
Comment linking /2020/10/08/terraform-hcl-for-in-and-removing-duplication/
on “A reasonable configuration language”Submitted Terraspace All: Deploy Multiple Stacks or Terraform Modules at Once as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJets now uses the official AWS Ruby runtime. Blog post here https://blog.boltops.com/2018/12/12/official-aws-ruby-suppor... Jets makes use of Lambda Layers to build the gem layer http://rubyonjets.com/docs/gem-layer/
Comment linking /2018/12/12/official-aws-ruby-support-for-jets-serverless-framework
on “Announcing Ruby Support for AWS Lambda”Submitted Terraspace All: Deploy Multiple Stacks or Terraform Modules at Once as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJets 5 was just released also https://blog.boltops.com/2023/12/05/jets-5-improvements-galo...
Comment linking /2023/12/05/jets-5-improvements-galore/
on “Jets: The Ruby Serverless Framework”Submitted Build an API with the Jets Ruby Serverless Framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jets 5 Release as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Terraspace Terrafile: Using Git and Terraform Registry Modules with Examples as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Terraform vs Terragrunt vs Terraspace as a story · 1 points
HN discussion