At Appliscale we respect knowledge sharing and are passionate about new technologies. One day we were thinking – why not share tech news in newsletter form? By that time we were often discussing interesting news in our chats and at Weekly Knowledge Sharing meetings, but it’s impossible to keep track of everything. Newsletters would allow…
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…
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…
Amazon Redshift is a well-known data warehouse solution with PostgreSQL background. Definitely, it may even be your first choice for Big Data management in the cloud. However, do you know all the possibilities that it brings? In this article, I would like to describe how to improve the way your database is queried in order…
AWS ECS, which stands for Elastic Container Service is an orchestration tool for containerized workloads in the AWS cloud. At the moment of writing, ECS is almost 5 years old so the core functionality of the service is familiar to the cloud community. The auto-scaling of this service could be sometimes not straightforward. However, recent…
One big challenge in a monorepo is to determine which components need to be rebuilt and consequently – deployed. The market offers us a couple of solutions, with Bazel ahead. All of them force repository owner (and users) to make enormous adaptations to build a system. Long-term earnings from using unified system pays-off, but could…
Recently, AWS added support for External Deployment Controllers for ECS Services. What does it mean for ECS users? We have received long-awaited possibility to control the deployment process from scratch, leveraging techniques like canary deployment. In regards to ECS, there are three main concepts essential to manage containers scheduling: Task Definitions Task Sets Services Task…
Our CTO Konrad Kaplita recently visited the rzemiosloIT conference in Rzeszow. As well as Appliscale being a Silver sponsor of the event we were delighted to have Konrad as a speaker. Konrads spoke about the challenges and opportunities he has faced while leading a development team for a large advertising technology company. The main focus…
Introduction In previous post (you can find it here) we talk about why we should automate. Now I would like to show our rationale for a new project and infrastructure for which we were responsible. That motivation which driven us into pure CloudFormation setup, why we bet on AWS, and why we decided to drop…
The Infrastructure automation dilemma There comes a time when every cloud computing project has to make a difficult choice – should we automate infrastructure or not? There are pros and cons but at a certain scale, automation is something you cannot escape. Immediately after you decide to automate the provisioning of your cloud infrastructure, another…