The goal of the practices in this chapter revolve around two distinct methods. The first is centered on reducing waste within operational practices. Defect reduction is the second tenet. Through automation and the reduction of manual work, you will have a healthier workplace. We have been focused on applying these principals to the cloud but they apply to your own workspace as well. The separation of code, configuration, and credentials ensures security at scale while allowing rapid prototyping, testing, and deployment.
Reduction
Local development
While we have the luxury of Cloud9 in AWS, oftentimes you must do your initial unit testing locally. For this we recommend using tools such as Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup...
