With over a decade into the market, AWS continues to dominate the public cloud infrastructure space by a sizable margin. Most companies have migrated to AWS with a clear mindset to reap the benefits of cloud services such as increased agility, improved efficiency, accelerated development and cost efficiency. However, many businesses still fail to leverage […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has significantly changed the IT world as more and more companies are adopting AWS for hosting their QA, Dev, Stage, Prod workloads. This has led to an increase in their monthly AWS spent and there comes a need to re-examine their cloud strategy to bring these costs down. It is a […]
DevOps is not merely a designation, practice, concept or philosophy, rather, it is a combination of all that emphasizes on the collaboration of both software developers and IT professionals. It is basically a culture wherein the DevOps acts as a bridge between the developers and administrators. It acts as a catalyst in automating the process of […]
Windows provides FTP support that can be enabled from the Features section. The default Windows FTP feature has two modes of operations. Simple Plain text FTP and FTPS. However, configuring FTPS on a firewall can be a complex task because it requires opening up multiple ports. SFTP is a secure way of accessing remote servers […]
In my earlier blog on Caching: What, Why and How with Hazelcast we have discussed about the importance of software caching and how to implement it with Hazelcast. In this blog, we are going to discuss the importance of distributed caching and how to configure Hazelcast to be a full TCP/IP cluster. What is Cache clustering? A cache cluster is […]
Kong is a widely used open source, scalable, customizable API Gateway/Middleware and is one of the most popular tools in the market because of its rich functionality and a wide range of open source supported plugins. Those who are new to Kong can go through the Kong’s documentation. Use Case: This blog is all about […]
What is Amazon Athena? Amazon Athena is an analytics and interactive query service that use interactive standard SQL to analyze data stored on Simple Storage Service (S3). It is a serverless service i.e. there is no need to setup the instances for the datastore and manage the infrastructure. Also, there is no need to load data […]
AWS recently launched a new Application Load Balancer (ALB) that supports Dynamic Port Mapping with ECS. It allows you to run two containers of a service on a single server on dynamic ports which ALB automatically detects and reconfigures itself. Amazon EC2 Container Service ECS is a managed container service that allows you to run […]
In this blog, we will learn how to setup Kubernetes cluster on servers running on CentOS (Bare-metal installation) as well as deploy add-on services such as DNS and Kubernetes Dashboard. If you are new to Kubernetes cluster and want to understand its architecture then you can through the blog on the Introduction on Kubernetes. So, […]