🚀 As developers, we’ve all experienced the frustration of manual deployments. You finish a feature, run tests locally, create a build, copy files to a server, and hope everything works in production. The process is time-consuming, repetitive, and prone to mistakes. 🔄 This is where CI/CD comes in. CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) helps […]
We’ve all been there. You spend weeks building a feature, everything looks polished in staging, and then launch day arrives—and the app buckles under real traffic. Suddenly, that slick UI doesn’t matter. Nothing matters when the page won’t load. Load testing is how you find out your system is about to break before your users […]
Introduction As the project grows and traditional CI runners running on static virtual machines or shared runners often struggle to keep up with increasing workloads. Jobs may queue up, builds start taking longer than expected and developers are left waiting. what’s the solution? So, instead of using traditional executioners we can leverage the GitLab Runner […]
Introduction In DevOps, upgrades are rarely exciting. They don’t ship new features (most of the time). They don’t impress clients. They don’t always get leadership applause. And yet, over the years at To The New, one thing has become very clear to us: DevOps teams that do upgrades regularly move faster, stay safer, and break […]
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 […]
Recently we realized something. Some companies just move differently, when they figure out this whole DevOps automation thing before everyone else did. As, one of our clients just pushed their fourth feature update this week. Fourth! And we’re thinking… their main competitor is still stuck planning some big quarterly release that probably won’t happen on […]
Introduction to Mabl If you’ve ever been stuck fixing broken Selenium tests at 2 a.m., you know the pain of traditional test automation. A small CSS change or a renamed element ID, and suddenly half your regression suite is red. The team wants to ship. Product is pushing. And QA is caught in the middle.This […]
Introduction EC2 Image Builder is an AWS service that automates creating, updating, and deploying your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). EC2 Image Builder creates a pipeline for Linux or Windows Server images for use with Amazon EC2. The pipeline manages all stages, including image creation, maintenance, validation, sharing, and deployment. Image Builder is free to use, […]
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 […]