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Our blog reflects the way we operate: we don’t just talk about technology - we build it, refine it, and learn from it every day. These writings capture the insights, patterns, and lessons that emerge from real practice. Explore them as a window into how we think, what we’re learning, and how we turn experience into clarity worth sharing.

December 9, 2025

From Features to Autonomy: What AWS re:Invent 2025 Means for Enterprise AI

Agentic AI, RFT, SLMs on EKS, and what re:Invent 2025...

October 2, 2025

What OpenAI API Pricing Tells Us About the Future of LLMs

OpenAI’s pricing changes say more than their product blog posts....

August 26, 2025

LLM API Planning and OpenAI API Cost Forecasting: A Guide for Tech Leads

When companies decide to integrate large language models into products...

July 28, 2025

Understanding OpenAI API Costs: What Enterprise Teams Need to Know Before Integrating AI

AI is no longer a future-facing experiment, but an enterprise...

July 27, 2025

Mastering Workday: 10 Brilliant Tips from Top Consultants

Introduction Workday is a leading enterprise software solution known for...

July 26, 2025

Remove Hosts from Datadog Dashboard: Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction Datadog is a leading monitoring and analytics platform designed...

July 25, 2025

AI-Driven Observability: The Future of Datadog

Datadog is transforming how businesses monitor their systems with AI-powered...

July 24, 2025

Datadog’s Advanced Capabilities: Security Monitoring Explained

Explore how advanced security monitoring tools enhance cloud protection through...

July 6, 2025

Secure AWS Access with SAML SSO and IAM Identity Center

Managing access across AWS accounts becomes increasingly complex as organizations...

May 19, 2025

Why We Recommend AWS AppSync for Building Real-Time Applications?

Modern applications need to move fast and stay in sync....

April 18, 2025

How AVM Enhances Operational Excellence with Datadog

Explore how a phased strategy with advanced monitoring tools enhances...

February 5, 2025

AVM Interview Tips

Top Tips for Effective Preparation Prepare to impress with our...

May 26, 2024

Graphing MySQL Query Histograms

One of the best features within MySQL performance schema is...

November 27, 2023

QR Code Attacks: Risks & How to Protect Yourself

QR (Quick Response) codes have become an integral part of...

July 3, 2023

Enhancing Data Security with an Effective IT Security Policy

In today’s digital landscape, data security is critical for organizations...

June 11, 2023

AWS AppSync: A Better Way to Build Real-Time Apps with GraphQL

Building real-time, responsive apps is hard when data lives across...

June 11, 2023

Cost Monitoring and Budgets on AWS

Effectively managing AWS costs requires leveraging the right tools and...

June 11, 2023

Amazon Fraud Detector

Amazon FAmazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that...

June 11, 2023

Cloud Management & Governance with AWS Control Tower

If you’re an organization with multiple AWS accounts and teams,...

June 11, 2023

Manage Software Licenses with AWS License Manager

AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage your software...

May 7, 2023

What Is AWS App Mesh and Why It Matters for Modern Applications

Modern applications are often composed of dozens—or hundreds—of microservices deployed...

May 7, 2023

Traffic Routing to Specific Microservices in AWS Using App Mesh

AWS App Mesh supports advanced traffic routing across microservices, including...

May 6, 2023

Auditing AWS S3 Bucket Permissions with S3 Inspector

Auditing AWS S3 Bucket Permissions with S3 Inspector Misconfigured S3...

May 3, 2023

Security Best Practices for Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

Securing your data streams is critical when working with Amazon...

November 25, 2022

How to Deploy AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) in the AWS Cloud

Protecting web applications from common exploits is critical. AWS Web...

November 25, 2022

Cross-Account Networking with Amazon Route 53 Resolver

Creating seamless DNS resolution between AWS accounts is essential for...

October 13, 2022

How to Protect CloudFront Distribution with AWS WAF

Securing your CloudFront distribution is a crucial step in defending...

October 9, 2022

WS SQS (Simple Queue Service): How It Works

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message...

August 24, 2022

Secure AWS Accounts with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-Factor Authentication is one of the simplest ways to protect...

August 24, 2022

Protecting AWS Accounts with AWS KMS: 2025 Edition

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a core part of...

August 24, 2022

Automate Amazon RDS Backups with AWS Lambda and AWS Backup

Backing up your Amazon RDS instances is critical, especially for...

August 8, 2022

Managing AWS Storage Gateway in 2025

AWS Storage Gateway continues to be a reliable way to...

August 7, 2022

AWS S3 Lifecycle Management: 2025 Best Practices

Managing storage cost and data retention in Amazon S3 starts...

August 7, 2022

How to Configure an AWS Landing Zone with Terraform

Setting up a secure, scalable AWS foundation across multiple accounts...

August 6, 2022

SAML SSO for AWS: Updated Best Practices in 2025

SAML 2.0 continues to be one of the most reliable...

May 3, 2022

Best Practices for Administering Amazon FSx File Systems

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server offers a fully managed,...

August 1, 2019

CI/CD with Kubernetes

Kubernetes is compatible with the majority of Continuous Integration / Continuous...

July 30, 2019

Deploy and Manage Applications on a Kubernetes Cluster

What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is a container management technology developed by...

July 20, 2019

RISE conference 2019 in Hong Kong. Our view

It has been great 4 days at RISE, Asia’s biggest...

June 16, 2019

Setup Kubernetes Service Mesh Ingress to host microservices using ISTIO – PART 3

This is Part 3 of the Blog series we have...

May 28, 2019

How to create a simple Cassandra Cluster on AWS

What is Cassandra? Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed...

April 29, 2019

Setup Kubernetes Cluster with Terraform and Kops – Build Enterprise Ready Containers using Packer – PART 2

Who should read this Blog This blog is continuation to...

April 9, 2019

Setup Kubernetes Cluster with Terraform and Kops – PART 1

Who should read this Blog: This Blog is for those...

March 11, 2019

Tableau Ask Data

Simplifying analytics with natural language With Ask Data, anyone can...

March 9, 2019

Tableau Performance Recipes

After multiple Tableau projects delivered, we see more and more...

November 12, 2018

Terraform – Orchestration Automation on Any Cloud

Provisioning cloud platform resources is never as simple as AWS...

August 5, 2018

Hugo + netlifyCms image Handling and Shortcodes

Hugo All media files are located in static/img folder of the repository....

December 17, 2017

OCI and AWS 10Gbit network test

In this blog we will compare the network performance of...

November 23, 2017

Easy ssh tunneling and port forwarding

Well configured ssh environment may save a lot of your...

November 20, 2017

ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID invalid certificate authority error. Ignore it?

Almost any web based tool in the office will have...

November 14, 2017

OCI command line setup and some interesting features

This article shows how to install and configure OCI command...

November 4, 2017

What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (BareMetal Cloud). How to implement resources in OCI.

Oracle introduced two type of cloud services. OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) Formerly...

November 4, 2017

On-premises RMAN backup placed in a storage object on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

This article describes how to take a local to your...

October 23, 2017

Spark and Qlik Integration

Steps: Spark Server Type: SparkThriftServer Host: internal-spark-thriftserver-prod-lb-861234576.ap-southeast-1.elb.amazonaws.com (DNS name of...

October 20, 2017

Spark SQL Query Explain Plan

DSE 5.0.6, Spark 1.6.2 Example 1 From cqlsh, below query...

September 26, 2017

Install oracle bmcs (oraclebmc-cli)

Here is a quick example how to install Oracle Braremetal...

September 24, 2017

Datastax Cassandra on AWS

Setting up AWS EC2 Instance Type: m4.xlarge, 4 node cluster, 2...

October 28, 2016

Cassandra Monitoring

Choice of Tool New Relic http://newrelic.com/plugins/3legs/113Monitor Cassandra statistics using the...

October 24, 2016

Junos Pulse VPN client on Linux. Two phase auth. 64bit. How to make it all work.

There are several problem common problems with Juniper SSL VPN...

June 4, 2013

High CPU usage on DB host?

Its Unix 101 statement, but I have heard it wrong...

June 3, 2012

Index Clustering factor. One way how to avoid negative performance impact on joins which involves bad clustered indexes.

High Index Clustering factor is popular problem in SQL world.The...