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Introduction If you’ve ever worked with Kafka, you know the problem: data grows fast. Every click, impression, or event adds up, and before you know it, your Kafka broker's disks are full. Disk is not very cheap on AWS, and storing everything on expensive broker storage is costly, and scaling up to handle growth feels like throwing...
The Problem With 'Flip the Switch' We've all been there: the new version is ready, the tests are passing in the staging environment, everybody is reasonably confident, and you deploy – only to find out that in a matter of minutes, the error rates are through the roof. Suddenly, you're in the process of an emergency roll-back, with...
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...
In modern software development, code quality assurance is no longer optional — it’s a foundational requirement. Delivery teams usually want three things when it comes to code quality: Consistency – rules should apply equally across all services. Governance – changes to quality standards must be visible and auditable. ...
Introduction In modern cloud engineering projects, speed and quality often clash. Teams want to ship features fast, but rushed reviews, inconsistent coding standards, and manual bottlenecks slow progress. That’s where CodeRabbit, an AI-driven code review tool, makes a difference. [caption id="attachment_78596" align="aligncenter"...
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...
