Every modern application today has one thing in common: it relies on speed. Users don’t wait around, systems can’t tolerate bottlenecks, and a couple hundred milliseconds can make the difference between a smooth experience and an abandoned page. And at the center of that performance equation, more often than not, is an in-memory data store. […]
Introduction HashiCorp Packer is one of the most popular open-source machine image builders. It helps engineers define infrastructure as code, installing software and layering security updates into AWS Machine Images, or AMIs. Packer is focused on image building. It has no capabilities around testing, scheduling, AWS notifications, or distribution. On the other hand, AWS EC2 […]
What is AWS Cloudwatch synthetics?AWS synthetics is a tool powered by AWS Cloudwatch which allows you to create and manage canaries. It is a real time monitoring tool which helps you to detect problems by mimicking a real user behaviour. What are canaries? Canary in the context of AWS cloudwatch is a small script that […]
Introduction When companies move to the cloud, most think the hardest part is the migration itself. Truth is — that’s just the start. Over the past few years, we’ve worked with startups, large-scale platforms, and everything in between. What have we learned? Cloud without solid DevOps is like buying a sports car but never changing […]
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 […]
If you’ve ever worked on AWS Lambda, you will know that one word that buzzes every developer is – cold start. It’s like Thanos, an inevitable tax that you pay when Lambda spins up a fresh execution environment to handle a request. In Node.js, while the AWS documentation covers the basics (provisioned concurrency, minimizing package […]
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 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: […]