Chris Woody Woodruff is a solution architect at RT2, .NET Foundation board member, author, podcaster, and speaker.
Author
Chris shares his expertise through articles, technical documentation, and an upcoming book on network programming with C# and .NET. His writing makes complex software concepts clear and actionable.
Solution Architect
Chris Woody Woodruff designs scalable, high-performance software solutions, specializing in API design, cloud architecture, and modern development frameworks. He ensures technology meets business and user needs efficiently.
Speaker
A frequent speaker at conferences and industry events, Chris engages audiences on API strategy, database architecture, and software development. His talks inspire and educate developers worldwide.
"Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two where the mystery lies.”
Chris Woody Woodruff
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Just Stuff From Woody
You wouldn’t deploy code without testing it, right? So why would you push infrastructure changes without making sure they work?
Terraform makes it easy to define infrastructure, but one wrong line of code can delete...
What if your infrastructure could scale itself up when traffic spikes and shrink when demand drops? What if it could self-heal when things break—without you lifting a finger?
Sounds futuristic? It’s possible today with Terraform!
With...
Imagine this: Your company just merged with another, and suddenly, you're managing infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Or maybe your team wants multi-cloud resilience—so if one provider has an outage, your apps keep...
Raise your hand if you’ve ever inherited a mess of manually created cloud resources.
Maybe your team has been clicking around in cloud consoles for years, and now your infrastructure is an unmanageable, undocumented monster...
Terraform is amazing—until it isn’t. One moment, you're deploying infrastructure effortlessly, and the next, you're staring at an error message that makes no sense.
We’ve all been there. Whether it’s state file conflicts, provider issues...
Cloud bills piling up faster than you expected? Terraform isn't just for deploying infrastructure—it’s also an awesome cost optimization tool! Instead of manually tracking expenses and hoping for the best, Terraform helps you:
Monitor and...
Manually deploying infrastructure is so last decade. If you’re still running terraform apply on your local machine, it’s time to step up your game with Azure DevOps Pipelines!...
Terraform makes infrastructure automation easy, but if you’re not careful, it can also open the door to security risks—misconfigured permissions, exposed secrets, and unintended data leaks.
Let’s talk about how to secure your Terraform deployments...
Terraform is an amazing tool for managing infrastructure, but without best practices, things can get messy—fast. Imagine a world where:
Terraform state files vanish into thin air.
Untracked changes wreck your deployments.
Infrastructure drifts into an unknown...