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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · 21h

New podcast episode just dropped and this week @kelseyhightower.com flipped the mic and interviewed me!

We went deep on config management, ClickOps, and why the real problem in IaC isn’t Terraform — it’s knowing the right values for prod.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREJ...

Guest Host: Kelsey Hightower — Why IaC Alone Isn’t Enough

YouTube video by Massdriver

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · 1d

Infrastructure-as-Code adoption has stalled. Fifteen years in, only ~13-30% of companies have truly succeeded with IaC.

What’s blocking the rest of organizations?

Is Terraform too hard? It’s not the tool, it’s the workflow. www.massdriver.cloud/blogs/15-yea...

15 Years of Duct Tape: Why IaC Adoption Stalled at 30%

Struggling to scale Infrastructure as Code? This post explains why CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows break down for modern cloud infrastructure, how brittle IaC practices slow teams, and why a new fou...

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · 7d

Browser upload modals really need to have support for type conversions. Its so annoying having a webp or heic file and trying to upload it to some archaic site that only supports JPEG.

AI that shit for me, nerds.

Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · 9d

Didn’t notice carbon shit the bed on those images.

Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · 9d

2. It's also a tracks preloads ...

We have an opts field on all get/list domain functions that let you request add'l info similar to JSONAPI, but at the elixir func level.

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · 9d

1. Inside the deploy/1 function, if the relations aren't loaded, it will load them and emit a telemetry event so you can find call sites missing data.

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · 9d

Considering open sourcing an #elixirlang macro at @massdriver.cloud that lets you declare what Ecto relations a function needs — like a typespec but for associations.

Absolutely obliterates N+1s

Thinking about open sourcing — would anyone actually use it?

This does two things...

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Jul 15

This place is dead ᵃᶠ.

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Jun 16

We collapsed about 6-7 services back into our monolith, cut out about 26 AWS services, refactored our storage engine on OCI, and of course we name our first test "poop" because we don't expect it to work and ... it did!

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Jun 16

TFW it works.

Last night was the end of a two-month hack-a-thon for me and my cofounder. We've been asked time and time again to support running massdriver in self-hosted environments on-prem and in the cloud.

We didn't build massdriver for this originally.

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Jun 11

"Ah, I understand now" is going to be my "What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?"

Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Jun 3

Ohhhh baby. Got some work to do on the docs, but the darn thing works.

hexdocs.pm/oci/0.0.2/re...

OCI — oci v0.0.2

hexdocs.pm

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Jun 3

Today I casted a magic spell and the main ingredient was `Process.put/2`.

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Jun 3

LLM

Little lying motherfucker.

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Reposted by Cory ODaniel

Software Engineering Daily @softwaredaily.bsky.social · May 27

Cory O’Daniel is the CEO of @massdriver.cloud and Malcolm Matalka is a Co-Founder at ‪Terrateam‬, and both are founding members of OpenTofu which is a fork of Terraform. They join @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about OpenTofu.

@coryodaniel.com

softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/05/27/o...

OpenTofu with Cory O’Daniel and Malcolm Matalka - Software Engineering Daily

OpenTofu is an open-source alternative to Terraform, designed for managing infrastructure as code. It enables users to define, provision, and manage their cloud and on-premises resources using a decla...

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · May 26

I’ve had pretty good success so far writing my tests and then using my tests as my prompts, but this was my first time just straight up vibe coding / talking to cursor - literally not touching the keyboard at all, and wow, holy fuck it’s a mess

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · May 26

Yes lol

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · May 26

Yep a WIP. Trying my hand at vibe coding but the code is a bloodbath so I’ll probably actually write code like a 2024 troglodyte.

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · May 23

A blessing up your mix test.watch:

github.com/coryodaniel/...

GitHub - coryodaniel/mtx: **mtx** is a wrapper around `mix test` and `mix test.watch`. That’s it. It passes all your flags and args straight through, swaps in `mix test.watch` when you use `-w`, and ...

**mtx** is a wrapper around `mix test` and `mix test.watch`. That’s it. It passes all your flags and args straight through, swaps in `mix test.watch` when you use `-w`, and updates your terminal t...

github.com

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · May 23

Parked a new hex package. Is the logo just right or what?

hexdocs.pm/oci/0.0.1/re...

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · May 21

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Apr 24

Working on this between self-hosted refactors: a tool that runs plan across all infra instances and flags changes from new policies. Like terraform plan but org-wide — real workloads, real environments. Context-aware, no more blind merges or finger-crossing.

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Apr 22

We're getting ready to offer a self-hosted version of Massdriver.

I'm putting together a hardening guide for Elixir releases (Kubernetes/Docker, node comms, remote shell lock down, etc).

Anyone interested in collaborating or know of an existing guide I could contribute to?

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Apr 22

GitHub Actions be like

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · Apr 18

Gonna bait linkedin today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TccJ...

Groundbreaking SaaS Billing Model for Self-Service Infrastructure: Tip-to-Deploy™️ #devops

YouTube video by Massdriver

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