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AWS OpsWorks Best Practices

We, the DevOps team at TO THE NEW have been practicing the DevOps Methodology from the last few years. We call ourselves DevOps architects, who love to do automation irrespective of the scripting language or cloud platform. As a DevOps architect, I have been using OpsWork from quite a long time. Hence, today I thought of sharing […]

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Using AWS Lambda Function for AutoScaling of ECS Containers

AWS Lambda is an event-driven compute service using which you can perform actions by executing some set of code on any event. We are using a lambda function to trigger AWS ECS container auto-scaling that is executed on the SNS event. Below is the AWS Lambda code in node.js that will get Cluster Name, Service […]

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Getting Started with Zabbix

Zabbix is an Open source distributed monitoring tool. It allows us to monitor integrity and health of the server, network traffic,  and applications.  Zabbix uses a notification mechanism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event.  Components Used in Zabbix are as follows: Zabbix Server : This is the central component that […]

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Setting up Logback in Jetty-9.2.16

Log files record all the activity of a program during its execution lifetime. Generally used for diagnosing problems, auditing, debugging, or information gathering. Why Logback? For automatically removing old logs. It also automatically compresses archived log files. Provides a wide array of filtering capabilities. Logback-access, i.e. HTTP-access logging with brains, is an integral part of […]

AWSDevOps

Access and Modify Google Sheet using Python

  This would be my first blog where I am using Python. I am excited to share what I did using Python. I wanted to update google sheet using bash shell scripting but did not found anything I can play around using bash. Later, I opted for Python as it provides “gspread” library which could […]

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6 Tips for AWS Cost Optimization

As we know AWS provides a good edge in terms of cost over the on-premises data center or in a co-location environment with its On Demand and Reserved pricing. As it is rightly said “Reducing the overall cost is a high priority” and it is true for any organization whether big or small. By using […]

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Selenium Conf’16: Bangalore

From the last half-decade, Selenium conference (SeConf) is being organized across the world for all the automation enthusiasts highlighting the new territories of this growing technology. Opportunely, this time, I attended SeConf’16 along with my colleagues, Sarthak Srivastava and Vikas Sharma. The first leg of this conference was held in Bangalore, India on June 24-25, […]

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Profile Flash Games on Web and Mobile Devices

Adobe Scout is a Profiling tool for Flash content running on both the Desktop (Flash Player) and Mobile (Adobe Air) devices. This tool will gives us the insight into the behaviour of Flash Content. It help us to get performance issues in Action script code. It gather all information about what’s going on inside Flash […]

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How to use ExtentReport in a framework

The other day while I was executing my TestNG test cases in the Selenium WebDriver, all my test cases got executed, and the report also showed correctly. However, I usually don’t find its user interface very friendly especially when it’s about creating reports. That’s when I came across a user friendly reporting tool called ExtentReport. ExtentReport […]

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Why Use Protractor for End-to-End Testing of AngularJS Applications?

Automation of testing frameworks helps you improve the quality, speed, and accuracy of the testing processes. The strategy to adopt test automation should clearly define when to opt for automation, its scope and selection of the right kind of tools for execution. AngularJS framework is rapidly gaining momentum as it can quickly launch applications by […]

AndroidMobility

Disabling the Preview(Start) Window in Android

When we tap on an app icon to launch the app, first we see a white or grey (depending on the default theme) screen for a second or two, before actual application launch.                              This is an annoying and undesirable situation which we can […]

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Mystery Behind S3 Costing

AWS S3 is a Simple Storage Service provided by Amazon that can store any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It is one of the most heavily used AWS Service. It is not just used as a storage service, it is also used for hosting websites with static content. It […]