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Social Media Marketing is necessary in today’s connected world to communicate with your audience and create brand awareness. It helps you reach a large audience base, which includes your customers and potential customers. With the rise in the adoption of social media, various new platforms have emerged. The choices are endless but do we know […]

Mongo Monitoring Service(MMS) is a service that ensures that the MongoDB is up and running and can alert us when the service is stopped/restarted.It can be run on an on-premise architecture or in the cloud like AWS. Use Case We have multiple servers running MongoDB service and they are present in different environments as Production, […]

AWS OpsWorks is a service which can be used to manage applications and can be used to operate applications of all shapes and sizes. In this blog we will discuss steps to automate a PHP app using AWS OpsWorks and Git. OpsWorks is an AWS service that can be used to automate the different kinds […]

Purpose: We have seen various instances of manual configuration on multiple servers which are similar and repetitive. When it comes to automate such tasks an easy process comes in mind – Configuration Management. There are several such tools available for this purpose. Ansible is one such tool that can be used for configuration management tasks, […]

Infrastructure monitoring in the cloud is the topmost priority for any application running in the cloud. This includes monitoring the web servers, databases, applications & various tools being used. Datadog not only provides monitoring but also has alerts integrated so that you get notified for certain type of issues which occur. For example a lot […]

It is believed that on the day of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, Lord Shiva (the first yogi) turned south and set his eyes on the Seven Sages, who spread the knowledge of yoga across the world.  Hence, June 21, the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere has a special significance […]

At times you encounter a use case where you need to run a Jenkins job remotely from another Jenkins instance. Well, there is a way to achieve this by using Parameterized Remote Trigger plugin. Let’s see how we can trigger parameterized or non-parameterized jobs on remote Jenkins server from another Jenkins server. Demonstration Lets say we […]

This post showcases the latest functionality added to puppet resource library to manage AWS resources. Various AWS resources like EC2 instances, route53, RDS and ELB etc. can be managed, described and created using this module. This will also help to keep track of launching an instance in a new security group or an existing one […]

The Native Development Kit (NDK) is a toolset enables us to implement parts of our app using native-code languages like C and C++. Typically, good use cases for the NDK are CPU-intensive applications such as signal processing, game engines, and physics simulation. [java] public class MyActivity extends Activity { /** * Native method implemented in […]

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use, with a simple web services interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. Requirements: iOS 7 and later Xcode 5 and later Version 2 of the […]

With data rate as high as 165 mbps, the analog video sequence is surely not going to fulfill our digital video requirements in its native forms. A two hour Hollywood movie transport stream (TS) or a pro-res file would cost you as much as 60 GB of data if watched online in the same format. […]

One of the default behaviors of iOS is that it stops all the services & functions of the app while you are on a phone call. While writing an audio-video iOS App, we must handle phone call’s interruption properly to resume the app. It is possible to detect a phone call and it’s states with the help […]