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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 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 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 At To The New, we work with all kinds of customers from fast-moving startups to huge enterprises, and one thing is always true: Nobody likes surprises on their AWS bill, nor Anyone likes downtime. When people think of saving money in AWS, they usually jump straight to EC2 instance rightsizing or removing idle resources....
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...
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 more powerful than we...
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...
Introduction Building and deploying applications that use Apache Kafka for real-time data processing is made simple with Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka), a fully managed service by AWS. Rack awareness is one overlooked configuration change that can greatly increase fault tolerance and cost effectiveness, even though MSK...
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...
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to represent TO THE NEW at NAB Show 2025 in Las Vegas, and I’m still reflecting on the incredible amount of insight packed into these past few days. For anyone in media operations space, digital distribution, post-production, or localisation, this year’s show wasn’t just a tech showcase - it...
Introduction AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is an AWS service for filtering big data using open-source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Trino, Hadoop, Hive, Presto, and many more. It provides a platform to run your applications without thinking much about the management of the underlying infrastructure. AWS EMR is a...
Introduction Welcome back to the exciting adventure through the Terraform Mastery blog series! In Part 1 of this series, we revealed some basic and advanced tips to decorate your IAC management capabilities. Now, in this part, we’re going to dive deep into some other important tips that may in addition streamline your workflow,...
