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 […]
Introduction As more organizations move their workloads to the cloud, traditional security models are no longer enough. Modern cloud environments need security that can keep up with changing infrastructure and workloads. The Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) stands out by bringing enterprise-level security controls to virtualized and cloud-native environments. What Is Palo Alto […]
Introduction When teams start on their DevOps journey, the excitement is real. CI/CD pipelines, faster deployments, cloud-native tools, automation everywhere – it feels like everything is finally going to be smooth. But in reality, the first year of DevOps is rarely smooth. It’s messy, experimental, and full of learning. At To The New, while working […]
Introduction Reducing cloud costs is always the top priority and biggest headache for Devops Engineers, especially when using managed AWS services like ECS Fargate. For one of our Ad-Tech clients at TO THE NEW, we were already utilising Fargate Spot to reduce the ECS bill significantly. But we found that we could save even more […]
Introduction If you’ve ever worked with Kafka, you know the problem: data grows fast. Every click, impression, or event adds up, and before you know it, your Kafka broker’s disks are full. Disk is not very cheap on AWS, and storing everything on expensive broker storage is costly, and scaling up to handle growth feels […]
Introduction In this blog, we will explore how to integrate an open-source MCP server with Amazon Q and unlock its enhanced capabilities, creating seamless architecture diagrams generation. Take a look at this architectural diagram below – Isn’t it amazing? You will be surprised to know it was not created manually by draw.io or any other […]
When I first set up CloudFront, I just wanted it to work. I clicked through the wizard, pointed it at an S3 bucket, and called it a day. It worked—until the bill showed up. That’s when I realized CloudFront is one of those services where the defaults aren’t your friend. If you’ve been running CloudFront […]
Is Your Cloud a Cost Center or a Growth Engine? The Role of TTN Managed Services in Cloud Cost Optimization For software-driven businesses, the cloud was originally a fast fix—a place for storage, hosting, or scalable computing power on demand. As the digital landscape grew more complex, so did cloud bills and headaches. An important […]
