Blogs

For many Scrum teams, sprint planning feels like a negotiation marathon – long meetings, overloaded backlogs, and unrealistic commitments. It is often treated as a 2 to 4 hour meeting that simply kicks off the sprint, and teams still struggle to deliver the committed scope. Not all activities required for sprint planning need to be […]

GenAI is everywhere today; in boardroom discussions, client pitches, internal roadmaps, and strategy decks. There is excitement, curiosity, and sometimes anxiety. As leaders, many of us are suddenly expected to “lead GenAI initiatives” even when we are not the most technical person in the room. I’ve been there. In several Gen AI discussions, I found […]

For a long time, being a Business Analyst (BA) mainly meant dealing with documentation, like business and functional requirement documents, process flows, and traceability matrices. While these documents were important, they often made the BA seem more like a note-taker than an important part in making decisions. But things are changing at a fast pace […]

Over the past year, I’ve been exploring how AI can assist in test automation. After working with various LLM-powered assistants and code-generation tools, I recently built a complete Selenium framework using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). In this post, I’ll share my technical insights, what worked, and what challenges I faced. Context: Where AI-Assisted Testing […]

Introduction For years, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has been built around a simple mission: keep systems reliable at scale. We measure SLOs, manage error budgets, write runbooks, respond to incidents, and automate toil wherever possible. But even with automation, most SRE work remains fundamentally reactive: Alerts wake us up. We investigate dashboards. We correlate logs […]

Introduction Keeping your app users up-to-date instantly is easier than ever with Stallion, a powerful tool for Over-the-Air (OTA) updates in React Native. Forget waiting for app store approvals; push updates directly to your users with zero friction. 🙌 Why Use Stallion? ✅ Built-in Testing Framework to validate updates before production 🔁 Switch Between App […]

Automation plays a crucial role in modern websites by reducing manual work and improving efficiency. In Drupal 7, automation was primarily handled by the Rules module, which allowed site builders to define event-based actions. However, with the transition to Drupal 8 and its new Symfony-based architecture, the Rules module faced technical challenges and could not […]

Introduction Over the past few sprints, a recurring question has been: GraphQL or REST? Most discussions revolved around frontend flexibility, performance, and how much complexity we want in our APIs. For example, a mobile app often needs just user names, not full profiles—overfetching in REST can impact performance, increasing bandwidth and slowing down user experience. […]

Introduction Managing MongoDB users through command-line can be complex and time-consuming. Our MongoDB User Management Console provides a modern web-based GUI that makes database user administration simple and accessible for teams. What It Does This Node.js web application offers a complete solution for MongoDB user management with an intuitive interface that replaces complex command-line operations. […]

Introduction DNS migrations don’t usually get much attention. They’re invisible when done right and very loud when done wrong. At TO THE NEW, we recently migrated DNS for an ad tech client from NS1 (an IBM Product) to AWS Route 53 as part of their large move to AWS and cost savings. On paper, this […]

Introduction When you work with AWS infrastructure for some time, you realise that not all problems announce themselves with alerts or outages. Some problems stay quiet, blend into the background, and only reveal themselves later-usually when someone asks a question you can’t answer clearly. This is one such experience from my early days of working […]

Real-time multiplayer games are unforgiving. Players don’t care for your flashy server hardware and state of the art network infrastructure, they care about quick response matches, fair competition, and smooth gameplay. When that breaks, they don’t blame latency graphs; they blame the game. At TO THE NEW, we’ve seen this pattern repeatedly: studios that treat […]