BLOGS & ARTICLES

by Chandrakant Rai July 4, 2017 In this blog post we will see how to setup a simple AWS infrastructure using Terraform. Any company moving their infrastructure to a Cloud provider, would like to setup their infrastructure as code which would give them immutable infrastructure and allow them to use deployment strategies like Canary Deployment or Blue-Green Deployment which are more apt strategies for deployment on Cloud. Terraform is a tool by HashiCorp which helps in achieving this goal. The same setup could be automated using Python & native AWS Boto library but Terraform has no cloud provider vendor lock […]

by Chandrakant Rai June 20, 2017 In this blog series we are going to explore how to run Docker containers on different container orchestration service like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm etc. We will also explore the container service by different cloud providers like AWS ECS, Azure Container Service, and Google Container Engine. This article does not give any best practice to run Docker Swarm or Kubernetes in Production environments, it is just a simple orchestration setup for our internal DevOps practice. Initially we will explore setting up a simple NGINX container and orchestrate it using Docker swarm mode. Pre-requisite: A minimum […]

by Mohamed Aly June 6, 2017 Today’s business solutions have become increasingly powered by sophisticated IT services, in a way that makes it impossible to think that there can be any IT operation failure, big or small, that cannot dent the business bottom-line. The successful delivery of IT operations services relies on the availability of quick, reliable and ready-to-consume information enabling the IT service provider to take the right actions. These actions often need to be based on the intimate knowledge of the technology, environment, processes, and business context of the IT solutions supported. A typical enterprise IT operations support […]

by Amanda Mallmes May 30, 2017 Company culture is a well-known buzz phrase, especially in the age of Emotional Intelligence, but why is it important and what does it mean? In the workplace today company culture is very important for both the employee and employer. A great candidate may be won or lost based on the ‘feel’ of the company. How the company operates influences the culture, and the culture determines how the company operates or; how a company does business. The ‘How’ of how a company does business impacts the profits it generates (or doesn’t) and influences its overall […]

by Ziko Rajabali April 11, 2017 A bridge is only worth crossing if it can hold strong while we cross. When we’re crossing the chasm on a bridge of data, it needs to have integrity. Last week, we discussed chilling the data: why it’s important to put operational data into long-term storage. Unfortunately, teams often pre-aggregate the data when chilling it, under the impression that storage is expensive or that the visualization will always be faster. But what about the questions we don’t know to ask yet? What happens when we don’t know what we don’t know? Avoid Destruction of […]