Tarun Saxena

Tarun is a Lead DevOps consultant and AWS certified Solutions Architect (Associate), AWS accredited Business and Technical certified professional who loves to get his hands dirty in automating the tasks using DevOps automation tools with a deep knowledge of Linux shell scripting.He is an expert in migrating the infrastructure to Dockerised environment like Kubernetes and swarm.He is a die-hard fan of music and loves to play guitar & piano in his spare time.

AWS

MASTER-SLAVE LOAD TESTING USING AWS EC2 SPOT INSTANCES

Load testing using JMeter from a single server generally yields the inaccurate result which doesn’t meet the real-time scenario. When performing load test from a single server, there are some network bottlenecks which restrict JMeter to perform an accurate load test. If the number of users exceeds a limit, the network starts getting...

15-Jul-2015

AWS

LOG ROTATION USING LINUX COMMAND-LINE UTILITY LOGROTATE

Let us consider a scenario when all the service and custom logs of your ubuntu server gets backed up on S3 on a daily basis after compressing them and the allocated space is freed without using any third party software. We can achieve this task by the use of logrotate utility provided by the ubuntu server. Log rotation means the...

15-Jun-2015

AWS, Technology

Python Interface for Pingdom REST API

Pingdom is a tool which is used for monitoring websites’ availability in real time. Now we can interact with pingdom using its REST API with the help of python scripts. Every time, a deployment is made on production servers, the pingdom tool throws a downalert because several services like tomcat, apache etc need to be restarted....

25-May-2015

AWS

Logs Monitoring Using AWS CloudWatch

 Suppose, you have multiple servers running a simple web application on apache or Nginx and you want to put all the error/access logs on a centralized place so that you can troubleshoot your system in case of any error after getting alert notification configured on your logs . Here is an amazing feature of Amazon Web Services...

20-Mar-2015