Blogs

Introduction: As software development teams start exploring Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) for test and development work, resulting productivity boosts have generated quite a bit of excitement. From authoring unit tests to code diff summarization and supporting exploratory test work, LLMs are becoming useful assets for the QA toolbox. This new technology comes […]

Introduction A pretty common AWS setup is CloudFront in front of an Application Load Balancer (ALB). CloudFront improves performance and gives you some security features “for free.” But if you leave the ALB wide open, anyone can bypass CloudFront and hit it directly – not ideal. This documentation outlines two effective methods for restricting direct […]

Introduction When companies move to the cloud, most think the hardest part is the migration itself. Truth is — that’s just the start. Over the past few years, we’ve worked with startups, large-scale platforms, and everything in between. What have we learned? Cloud without solid DevOps is like buying a sports car but never changing […]

Introduction WebRTC is the native real-time audio, and video plus low-latency data exchange stack of the web that offers peer-to-peer enabled communication with built-in NAT traversal, encryption support as well as adaptive transport selection. It opens up browser APIs for media capture, secure connection establishment, and streaming audio/video/data between peers by use of RTCPeerConnection, MediaStream […]

Introduction  Management of sensitive information such as API keys, credentials and configuration secrets are an important part of developing safe and reliable Skylands applications. In Google Cloud Ecosystem, Secret Manager provides a centralized and safe way to save, access and manage these secrets.When running applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including Secret Manager guarantees that […]

Introduction In today’s enterprise IT world, container orchestration often feels like magic. It takes a bunch of servers and makes them behave like a single, well-oiled machine. But what happens when you don’t have the cloud at all? That was exactly the challenge we faced: building a production-grade Kubernetes platform inside Samsung’s fully air-gapped, on-premises […]

Introduction Logs coming from different services often follow inconsistent formats, naming conventions, and structures. This makes it difficult to search, analyze, and correlate events across your systems. Datadog Log Management solves this challenge with Pipelines, Processors, and Standard Attributes, which let you extract key fields, normalize attributes, and enrich log data at scale. In this […]

Introduction If you’re still running MySQL 5.7 on Amazon RDS, it’s time to act. AWS started charging for Extended Support in March 2024. By mid-2025, that charge is no longer theoretical, and paying for it is kind of unacceptable. You’re likely already paying for it, and the cost will double by the end of this […]

Introduction At To The New, we help customers across various industries develop cutting-edge, scalable infrastructure. However, you must first tame the beast before you can scale anything. And in this case, the beast was Jenkins. Jenkins setups that have grown disorganized over time are a problem for many organisations. Engineers spend more time troubleshooting than […]

Introduction Automated test cases—once seen as the key to efficiency—often turn into challenges of their own. For newcomers, writing that first test can feel overwhelming: learning frameworks, setting up locators, handling waits, and structuring assertions. For experienced teams, the bigger struggle is maintenance—UI changes, shifting requirements, and fragile scripts. Flaky tests only add to the […]

In React, performance often comes down to avoiding unnecessary re-renders. Too many re-renders can slow down your app and make it feel less responsive. Until now, below methods used  to avoid re-renders : React.memo to wrap components useMemo and useCallback to memoizing values and functions These tools work but they also add extra code, boilerplate, […]

If you’ve ever worked on AWS Lambda, you will know that one word that buzzes every developer is – cold start. It’s like Thanos, an inevitable tax that you pay when Lambda spins up a fresh execution environment to handle a request. In Node.js, while the AWS documentation covers the basics (provisioned concurrency, minimizing package […]