Introduction In ad-tech, logs are not “nice to have.” They are the product’s heartbeat. Every impression, every click, every bid request — everything generates logs. Multiply that by millions of requests per minute, and you’re suddenly dealing with millions of events and TB’s of logs per day. That’s exactly where one of our...
Introduction When we started with Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate, it felt simple. No EC2 to manage. No AMIs. No cluster scaling headaches. Then the number of services grew. Working for the ad-tech client from last 5 years and running their workload on ECS Fargate has taught us many things. Different traffic patterns. Different...
Introduction: Why Containerization Is Important In modern software development, containerization has become a standard practice, particularly for Node.js applications and microservices. But why is containerization so valuable? Consistency Across Environments: One of the main challenges in development is environment inconsistencies....
Microservices have really redefined the way traditional and legacy applications were built. In part I, we have provided an overview of microservices and key benefits of microservice architecture. Unlike the monolithic architectural style, microservice architecture helps to bring business agility and improve time to market. Microservices...
Companies around the globe are investing a lot of time, money and efforts in building innovative products. In such a competitive landscape, it is highly critical to maintain the business agility and improve time to market. A decade back operations and development teams used to work in silos making the release cycles long. Over the last...
Consul is a service discovery and a configuration system tool used to discover the services running on multiple nodes. It is both distributed and highly available. It provides a powerful interface to get a better picture of infrastructure and services running on them. Consul gives us a variety of features that help to determine our...