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 Centralized log visibility across various systems is necessary and modern organizations must adhere to stringent compliance requirements. For audit and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) purposes a dependable log forwarding pipeline is necessary whether it is for monitoring authentication, events, system activity or security logs A robust open-source data collection tool called Fluentd […]
In today’s gaming and wagering ecosystem, the spotlight mainly comes on shining new features users receive, innovative gameplay, or seamless user experiences.Yet, backstage, platform engineering teams work hard to ensure everything runs smoothly & securely, and can scale in very short time. While development and the product teams remains ahead with new ideas, it is […]
Introduction Keeping internal NPM packages safe during continuous integration and delivery is more important than ever, and a private registry such as Sonatype Nexus offers a simple, central way to do this. In the steps that follow, you’ll learn how to link Jenkins to a Nexus NPM feed, whether your builds run inside Docker or […]
Introduction If you’re using Terraform for IAAC with AWS, you might have probably declared the provider like this in your code: provider “aws” { region = “us-west-2” } And it worked. So you left it alone. Then one day, someone tries to use a newer module… and Terraform throws a special error: Error: unsupported argument […]
Introduction: What is Terraform State? Terraform doesn’t just apply your infrastructure code and forget about it. It keeps track of what’s been created — every EC2 instance, every S3 bucket, every RDS database, every security group, and many more. That data is stored in a file called terraform.tfstate. This state file is how Terraform knows: […]
Introduction We used to rely on Pingdom for uptime monitoring. It worked well with simple checks, nice UI, and reliable and clean alerts. But one day, someone on our DevOps team casually said: “Hey, why are we paying for something that only pings URLs?” And that kicked off a big conversation. The Cost Wake-Up Pingdom […]
Introduction At To The New, we work with all kinds of customers from fast-moving startups to huge enterprises, and one thing is always true: Nobody likes surprises on their AWS bill, nor Anyone likes downtime. When people think of saving money in AWS, they usually jump straight to EC2 instance rightsizing or removing idle resources. […]