Tag: Terraform
Migrating 50 Production Databases to Aurora with Under 3 Minutes of Downtime
Over about two years, we migrated around 50 production databases from on-premises MySQL to AWS Aurora. The largest were multi-terabyte, tier-0 systems with 24/7 write traffic. Most cutovers took under 3 minutes of downtime. That number is not the …
Over about two years, we migrated around 50 production databases from on-premises MySQL to AWS Aurora. The largest were multi-terabyte, tier-0 systems with 24/7 write traffic. Most cutovers took under 3 minutes of downtime. That number is not the …
20+ AWS Services in One terraform apply — Built for the New Free Plan
AWS’s new free plan comes with $200 in credits ($100 base + $100 bonus) — but only if you activate each activity individually. Most people don’t. I almost didn’t. The first time I spun up an ElastiCache cluster for a personal project, I picked …
AWS’s new free plan comes with $200 in credits ($100 base + $100 bonus) — but only if you activate each activity individually. Most people don’t. I almost didn’t. The first time I spun up an ElastiCache cluster for a personal project, I picked …
Terraform Module Library
Self-service infrastructure only works if the self-service path is the easiest path. This module library made the compliant, production-hardened way to provision AWS infrastructure also the fastest one. Challenge Seventy application repositories, …
Self-service infrastructure only works if the self-service path is the easiest path. This module library made the compliant, production-hardened way to provision AWS infrastructure also the fastest one. Challenge Seventy application repositories, …
Aurora Migration Toolkit
Migrating a single database to Aurora is a project. Migrating fifty — including multi-terabyte, tier-0 systems with 24/7 write traffic — is a platform. This is the toolkit and methodology that made it repeatable. Challenge Each team’s database had …
Migrating a single database to Aurora is a project. Migrating fifty — including multi-terabyte, tier-0 systems with 24/7 write traffic — is a platform. This is the toolkit and methodology that made it repeatable. Challenge Each team’s database had …
No-Code Infrastructure Platform
The bottleneck in database infrastructure was never the databases — it was the queue in front of them. This platform removed the queue: product teams provision production-ready Aurora clusters through a web form, no Terraform required. Challenge …
The bottleneck in database infrastructure was never the databases — it was the queue in front of them. This platform removed the queue: product teams provision production-ready Aurora clusters through a web form, no Terraform required. Challenge …