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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 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...
Introduction If you're using Terraform for IAAC with AWS, you might have probably declared the provider like this in your code: provider "aws" { region = "us-west-2" } [caption id="attachment_73692" align="aligncenter" width="625"] terraform + aws[/caption] And it worked. So you left it alone. Then one day, someone tries to use...
Introduction: What is Terraform State? Terraform doesn’t just apply your infrastructure code and forget about it. It keeps track of what’s been created — every EC2 instance, every S3 bucket, every RDS database, every security group, and many more. That data is stored in a file called terraform.tfstate. This state file is how...
Introduction We used to rely on Pingdom for uptime monitoring. It worked well with simple checks, nice UI, and reliable and clean alerts. But one day, someone on our DevOps team casually said: "Hey, why are we paying for something that only pings URLs?" And that kicked off a big conversation. The Cost Wake-Up Pingdom wasn’t...
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...
