In Appliscale we believe that sharing is caring. Especially during Christmas, people want to share goodness and help others. It has become our tradition that this time of year the Appliscale team supports those who are in need. This year we chose several charity organizations that we’re going to donate to. How do we do…
Work-life balance is really about feeling content. . . in who you are and the decisions that you’re making What is work-life balance and why is it important to find it? Typically almost everyone thinks that they have to equalize work and personal life to find a perfect balance, focusing only on time spent on…
What makes the Appliscale team so unique? We are highly educated professionals, but these are not only our skills! It’s not just our projects’ portfolio, or just our tech stack, but our culture too. What is culture you ask? It’s the people, the way we interact on a daily basis and how we cooperate with each other.
Amazon Redshift – data warehouse solution from AWS – configured as a cluster can be set up in many ways using different types and counts of underlying nodes. While designing any database solution, storage is one of the most important factors. In this article, I would like to describe how to save on Redshift’s space…
Are you looking for a way to create internal tools for your company without putting dozens of engineers per quarter? Or maybe you have a great idea to build a startup, but you want to ‘be lean’ and validate your idea first? If the answer is yes, fasten your seatbelts as this article will take…
Target audience The article is focused on infrastructure cost optimization with the usage of AWS EC2 Spot instances in AWS EKS clusters. Some knowledge and experience with both AWS and Kubernetes environment is desirable to properly understand the presented concepts and solutions. Introduction to AWS EKS service AWS EKS which stands for Elastic Kubernetes Service…
2020 is (finally) over. New Year has always been a time for reflection, we can look back at our achievements from the past year and create resolutions for the new one. Hopefully making better engineers along the way. For us this review included an assessment of our knowledge sharing culture in Appliscale. We feel we…