A DevOps Journey
Over the past few years Mind Candy has gone through a DevOps transformation. We did this because we knew that we had to improve the delivery of our products and we knew that where we wanted to be...
View ArticleDeployments using All the Things!
As we’ve mentioned in previous posts, we use AWS services extensively at Mind Candy. One of the services that we’ve blogged about before is CloudFormation. CloudFormation (CF) lets us template multiple...
View ArticleDynamic-DynamoDB has been summoned!
Back in July, we posted about a tool for Amazon DynamoDB called Dynamic-DynamoDB that gives you the ability to dynamically increase and decrease your provisioned throughput in DynamoDB according to...
View ArticleA Puppet module for Dynamic DynamoDB
As my colleagues have said in other posts, we make an extensive use of Amazon Web Services at Mind Candy. Recently we decided to use the AWS NoSQL offering DynamoDB for a specific use case in one of...
View ArticleScaling Puppet for Donuts
In the last year we’ve had a fair number of challenges within NetOps, especially with our config management of choice which is Puppet. Not only did we have a big piece of work that involved taking the...
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