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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. [caption...
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 money if...
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...
Artificial Intelligence has managed to move from research labs to boardroom conversations. Today, every technology leader is under pressure to “do AI.” Customers want personalized experiences, competitors are embedding AI into their offerings, and investors expect a clear AI strategy in every roadmap. But here’s the hard truth:...
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 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...