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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 year. [caption...
Introduction For years, we have used Kafka in the Data Centre, then we moved to AWS and started using EC2 to run Kafka. However, the headaches increased along with our usage. We began to feel as though we were spending more time managing Kafka than creating anything of value due to broker upgrades, Zookeeper problems, imbalanced...
Nowadays, every org wants to migrate to a microservices architecture; the idea sounds great on paper. But when you're staring at an 8-year or decade-old monolith that processes millions of transactions and somehow never breaks, suggesting a complete rewrite feels... well, insane. I've been down this road more times than I care to admit....
Introduction For many organizations, the journey to the cloud begins with an important decision: migrating from their traditional on-premises data centers to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This transition demands courage, dedication, and extensive planning, as it involves moving their already operational infrastructure to the cloud without...