Introduction When you work with AWS infrastructure for some time, you realise that not all problems announce themselves with alerts or outages. Some problems stay quiet, blend into the background, and only reveal themselves later-usually when someone asks a question you can’t answer clearly. This is one such experience from my early days of working […]
In this BLOG I will share an incident that taught me how containers really work under the hood. Production Down – Once I received production website down alert for one of my customer. As I checked the website was giving 502 Initial Checks – I immediately logged in to the production host to investigate. The […]
Introduction DNS is rarely the first thing teams modernise. In most client environments we work with at To The New, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and observability mature quickly. DNS, however, often remains manually managed through dashboards, handled by a few people, and changed mostly during incidents. That gap usually goes unnoticed until traffic needs to be […]
Introduction In DevOps, upgrades are rarely exciting. They don’t ship new features (most of the time). They don’t impress clients. They don’t always get leadership applause. And yet, over the years at To The New, one thing has become very clear to us: DevOps teams that do upgrades regularly move faster, stay safer, and break […]
Introduction When teams start on their DevOps journey, the excitement is real. CI/CD pipelines, faster deployments, cloud-native tools, automation everywhere – it feels like everything is finally going to be smooth. But in reality, the first year of DevOps is rarely smooth. It’s messy, experimental, and full of learning. At To The New, while working […]
Introduction Reducing cloud costs is always the top priority and biggest headache for Devops Engineers, especially when using managed AWS services like ECS Fargate. For one of our Ad-Tech clients at TO THE NEW, we were already utilising Fargate Spot to reduce the ECS bill significantly. But we found that we could save even more […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 road. […]
