Cloud is a key enabler to transformation and growth. In the recent years, Cloud is a much talked about technology. Businesses and enterprises are adopting cloud not only to simplify the infrastructure provisioning process but also to stay ahead of the competition. Traditional and legacy organizations however at times are skeptical of moving to cloud […]
Drupal provides both public and private file systems. S3 File System (Amazon S3) provides an additional file system to the Drupal site. S3FS module is used to store files in Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) or any other S3-compatible storage service. You can configure your Drupal site to use S3 File System as default, or […]
Do you know how Ansible works? Well, before we walk you through how to setup dynamic inventory, here’s some food for thoughts on Ansible Configuration Management System A user using configuration management system will often want to save inventory in a different software system. As described in inventory, a basic text-based system is provided by […]
A shorter time to market is critical to product companies. With the growth in competition, it is important to deliver a fast, secure and seamless application experience. It is the usability of the application that will differentiate an organization from its competitors. Adobe Experience Manager (or AEM), a component of the Adobe Marketing Cloud, is […]
Elasticsearch offers highly useful plugin mechanism as a standard way for extending its core functionality such as custom analyzer, native scripts and more. While some plugins may contain static content which is served through its HTTP server, some others offer a graphical front-end for selected parts of the Elasticsearch REST API such as monitoring, managing cluster and […]
In our current setup, we are using multiple technologies but the most used ones are AWS ECS and Elasticsearch Cluster. As discussed earlier we are using AWS ECS for powering our application layer in all the environments and Elasticsearch for centralized logging and as a database for our core application. AWS ECS uses auto scaling […]
With the huge success of micro-services and container technologies, most of the enterprises are migrating their architecture to the container-based solution which is more reliable and flexible as compared to monolithic architecture. Moving to containerized solution like Docker, logging each container and its insights is a new challenge. Analyzing logs provides insight into stability, performance, […]
We usually come across few scenarios where we need something to run on the remote servers for the sake of automation. I came across such a use case in AWS where I need to run fabric on a server to be triggered from AWS Lambda. This fabric script further does few tasks on other servers. […]
This is a blog series in continuation to a Use Case on How the team at TO THE NEW reduced monthly AWS spend from $100K to $40K in 90 days for a client. In this blog, I would explain how MongoDB consolidation and RDS optimizations have helped one of our clients to generate significant cost savings. […]