(AI Gen) Adventures in the Modern Monolith: How do you keep a secret at Tilt?

About this episode

The episode discusses how Tilt developed TiltSecret to improve their deployment process and local development experience.

When 50+ Azure App Service instances restart simultaneously and all reach for the same Key Vault, things break. This post walks through how Tilt built TiltSecret, a lazy-loading, strongly-typed, pipeline-validated system that eliminated throttling, prevented deployment failures, and gave engineers a frictionless local dev experience.

Topics covered

• Azure
• Key Management
• Software Development
• DevOps
• Engineering Practices

Keywords

• Azure App Service
• Key Vault
• TiltSecret
• deployment failures
• lazy-loading

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tilt, Azure App Service, Key Vault

Products: TiltSecret

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