This Infrastructure is the result of years of experience scaling Magento 1 and 2 in the cloud. It comes with the best cloud development practices baked right in saving your business time and money. Migrating Magento into the AWS cloud — comes with many advantages. You can operate workloads in new ways. When you only […]
Want to enhance your customers’s shopping experience? Install Magento 2 on AWS and utilize Amazon CloudFront for superior performance worldwide. In this tutorial, we will explore the benefits, prerequisites, and technical requirements of installing Magento 2 on AWS. Benefits of Installing Magento 2 on AWS 1. Scalability AWS provides highly scalable cloud infrastructure. This means […]
Magento Hosting AWS: Choosing the Right EC2 Instance for E-Stores For top Magento Hosting AWS, choosing the right EC2 instance ensures the smooth execution of compute-intensive tasks. Instances support workloads like containers, microservices, databases, and virtual machines. This article will discuss the different types of EC2 instances recommended for Magento hosting on AWS. What is […]
What is AWS LightSail? Lightsail is a virtual private server service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It simplifies cloud computing for developers. For Magento users, Lightsail offers a user-friendly, fast, and cost-effective setup. It ensures scalable, manageable e-commerce hosting solutions. Via pre-configured Magento templates and instances, Lightsail speeds up the deployment process. It also […]
Slack uses cookies to track session states for users on slack.com and the Slack Desktop app. The ever-present cookie banners have made cookies mainstream, but as a quick refresher, cookies are a little piece of client-side state associated with a website that is sent up to the web server on every request. Websites use this […]
Slack Data Engineering recently underwent data workload migration from AWS EMR 5 (Spark 2/Hive 2 processing engine) to EMR 6 (Spark 3 processing engine). In this blog, we will share our migration journey, challenges, and the performance gains we observed in the process. This blog aims to assist Data Engineers, Data Infrastructure Engineers, and Product Managers who may be considering migrating to […]
Manage tens of thousands of EC2 instances that host a variety of services, including our Vitess databases, Kubernetes workers, and various components of the Slack application. The majority of these instances run on some version of Ubuntu, while a portion operates on Amazon Linux. With such a vast infrastructure, the critical question arises: how do […]
Introduction The big challenge in any load shedder is that it needs an estimate of the capacity of the service. Essentially, how many requests can the service handle? If the estimate is too low, the service will be too quick at rejecting requests and it will run ineffectively, as it is not utilizing all the available resources. […]
Introduction Uber’s business runs on a myriad of microservices. Ensuring that changes to all of these services are deployed safely and in a timely manner is critical. By utilizing continuous deployment to automate this process, we ensure that new features, library updates, and security patches are all delivered to production without unnecessary delays, improving the […]
In today’s digital world, businesses are increasingly turning to the cloud for its scalability, agility, and cost-effectiveness. Migrating your data center to the cloud can be a daunting task, but with the right approach and tools, it can be a successful journey. This Let’s Architect! blog post will guide you through the process of migrating to the […]