Introduction Handling AWS costs is very important for cloud bill optimizations. One overlooked service that can significantly contribute to monthly expenses is Elastic Load Balancing. Our team, which works for a global advertising management platform client, a powerhouse in advertising and connected TVs, recently undertook a major step...
Introduction Cloud cost optimization is a vast and evolving discipline, but at its core, it starts with visibility. You can’t optimize what you can’t see. So, gaining granular insight into your cloud usage and billing is the basic foundation. You're not the only one who has ever thought, "This bill feels too high," after seeing your...
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...
Introduction If you have worked with databases, you might have definitely crossed paths with MySQL, and probably used mysqldump at some point. It’s a go-to utility for backing up MySQL databases. But let’s be honest — most of us use it in its basic form and forget about it. Here’s the thing: MySQLdump is way more powerful than we...
Why Terraform Is a Popular Choice in the Industry In an era where businesses demand rapid scalability and resilience, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become essential. Among the many tools available, Terraform by HashiCorp stands out as a favorite in the industry. Whether you're managing cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, or...
Introduction An airline organization, once operating its Revenue Management Software (RMS) on-premise, has successfully completed the migration of this critical application to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). RMS is central to helping the airline identify sales opportunities, maximize passenger revenue, and remain competitive by...
Introduction and Usecase There are times when we want Terraform to stop managing a resource, but don’t want to delete it from the infrastructure. In this brief blog, I'm going to discuss removing resources from Terraform configuration files while keeping them in real infrastructure. But why would you want to do this in the first...
[caption id="attachment_72327" align="alignnone" width="625"] How SMART on FHIR Rescued Us from EHR Integration Hell[/caption] When we initially embarked on integrating our healthcare app with 17 disparate health systems, we didn't merely have a technical problem—we entered a war zone of fatigued IT staff and cynical clinicians who...
Introduction We know that sometimes the cloud infrastructure is already set up before we start using Terraform. Traditionally, if we wanted to import these resources into Terraform and control them, we had to run some manual import commands. It was a pain and made it tricky to keep things smooth when working in a collaborative...
Introduction: The Growing Need for Salesforce DevOps [caption id="attachment_71746" align="alignleft" width="300"] DevOps[/caption] Salesforce is a CRM platform for managing client relations, sales prospecting, marketing automation, business intelligence, and more. Like most modern cloud-based solutions, Salesforce allows...
Introduction to Cloud Migration In 2023, the value of the Cloud computing market was touching $600 billion and is expected to quadruple to touch ~$2300 billion by 2032. The growth is not only driven by cloud-born businesses but by far the existing large legacy enterprises that are actively in action to migrate their existing...
The Evolution of DevOps: How AI is Changing Software Delivery Artificial intelligence transforms how software is created, released, and maintained in the tech-driven world of enterprise DevOps today. Companies are in the process of enhancing the automation, efficiency, and reliability of their DevOps processes by leveraging the strong AI...