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INTRODUCTION Remember the old morning routine? Grab coffee, open the laptop, and then…the waiting game. Staring at that little icon, praying the corporate VPN would finally connect. If you’re still living that life, we need to talk. The world in which we work has undergone significant changes. We’re at home, in cafes, on the...
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...
When I first set up CloudFront, I just wanted it to work. I clicked through the wizard, pointed it at an S3 bucket, and called it a day. It worked—until the bill showed up. That’s when I realized CloudFront is one of those services where the defaults aren’t your friend. If you’ve been running CloudFront for a while, you...
Multi-Account Governance in AWS: Beyond Organizations and SCPs Introduction If you’ve worked with AWS for a while, you already know this story: things usually start with one account. Life is simple. Then teams grow, projects multiply, compliance knocks at the door—and suddenly you’re staring at dozens (or even hundreds) of AWS...
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...
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 Management of sensitive information such as API keys, credentials and configuration secrets are an important part of developing safe and reliable Skylands applications. In Google Cloud Ecosystem, Secret Manager provides a centralized and safe way to save, access and manage these secrets.When running applications on...
Introduction In today’s enterprise IT world, container orchestration often feels like magic. It takes a bunch of servers and makes them behave like a single, well-oiled machine. But what happens when you don’t have the cloud at all? That was exactly the challenge we faced: building a production-grade Kubernetes platform inside...
Introduction Logs coming from different services often follow inconsistent formats, naming conventions, and structures. This makes it difficult to search, analyze, and correlate events across your systems. Datadog Log Management solves this challenge with Pipelines, Processors, and Standard Attributes, which let you extract key fields,...
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 At To The New, we help customers across various industries develop cutting-edge, scalable infrastructure. However, you must first tame the beast before you can scale anything. And in this case, the beast was Jenkins. Jenkins setups that have grown disorganized over time are a problem for many organisations. Engineers spend...
Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise IT, automation has transcended from being a "nice-to-have" to mission-critical infrastructure. While most organizations recognize Ansible as a powerful configuration management tool, its true potential lies in addressing complex, multi-dimensional challenges that traditional...
