DevOps

Upgrading the Terraform AWS Provider: Painful, But Worth It

Introduction If you're using Terraform for IAAC with AWS, you might have probably declared the provider like this in your code: provider "aws" {  region = "us-west-2" } [caption id="attachment_73692" align="aligncenter" width="625"] terraform + aws[/caption] And it worked. So you left it alone. Then one day, someone tries to use...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: ttn
20-Aug-2025

DevOps

Paying to Ping? We Switched to Uptime Kuma and Saved Big

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...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: ttn
07-Aug-2025

Anaytics, Big Data

Improving query performance in Snowflake and its related costs

In the previous blog, we understood how to Optimally use Snowflake Warehouse and Tables. Now, we continue the series by diving into Snowflake performance tuning, focusing on how to enhance query performance and manage associated costs in Snowflake cloud services. So let's continue the blog series, where we will now focus on improving the...

15-May-2023