README.md

RealAd Website & Infrastructure Monorepo

This is the official open-source monorepo for the RealAd Software Development and Technical Partner Company website.

📦 Structure

This monorepo is managed with pnpm workspaces and contains two main packages:

• nextjs/ – The corporate website built with Next.js
• pulumi/ – Infrastructure as code using Pulumi and AWS

🎯 Purpose

This repository serves as a real-world development case study demonstrating:

• Modern infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Pulumi
• Best practices for building and deploying a Next.js corporate site
• Integration with AWS Amplify for CI/CD
• Clean and maintainable monorepo setup using pnpm

It also acts as a companion resource for Medium articles published by the RealAd team, detailing the architecture, process, and lessons learned.

🛠️ Getting Started

Copy and configure Pulumi stack files:

cd pulumi
cp Pulumi.yaml.example Pulumi.yaml
cp Pulumi.prod.yaml.example Pulumi.prod.yaml
cd ..

Edit them with your values or configure via:

cd pulumi
pulumi login s3://your-state-bucket
pulumi config set aws:region us-east-1
pulumi config set pulumi:domain yourdomain.com
cd ..

Install dependencies:

pnpm install

Preview Pulumi infrastructure:

pnpm pulumi:preview

Develop the website locally:

pnpm nextjs:dev

📚 Related Articles

We’ll be publishing a series of posts on Medium covering:

• Testing Your Firewall in 60 Seconds: A Lightweight WAF Testing Script That Anyone Can Use
• Mastering AWS Lambda Functions: Best Practices with TypeScript (2025)
• Choosing the Right Programming Language for Your Service
• How a One-Hour Intro Call Saved a Client $17,000: When AI-Generated Code Meets Human Expertise
• Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Networks: Building Resilient Applications on AWS

🧑‍💻 About RealAd

RealAd is a software development and technical partner company helping startups, scale-ups, and enterprises bring their ideas to life — with a focus on socially impactful and technically sound solutions.

Visit us at realad.io to learn more about our services and how we can help you.

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📝 This repository is part of our ongoing initiative to share real-world engineering patterns and promote open knowledge in the developer community.