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, […]
If you’ve ever tried to track AWS costs with just Cost Explorer and spreadsheets, you’ll know the pain. On paper it sounds simple: export some data, make a pivot table, maybe throw a chart on top. In practice? You’re stuck chasing down anomalies with five browser tabs open, three CSVs half-filtered, and a sinking feeling […]
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 […]
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 building hybrid environments, Terraform simplifies […]
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 monitoring market fares in real time. The migration aimed to overcome […]
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 […]
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 had been burned by one too many “seamless integrations.” Maria, an IT director at one of our partner hospitals, didn’t sugarcoat it: […]
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 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 customization which enables businesses to create and implement custom applications, workflows, and integrations. In spite of the many advantages, salesforce requires deployments, version control, […]
