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Laravel applications often contain a large number of files that need to be interpreted with each server request. In my project, the number of files reached 20,000, causing significant disk load and affecting page load speed. The solution to this problem was using PHP OPcache, which significantly reduced IOPS and doubled the speed of request […]

Challenge: We deployed an AWS ECS Cluster using Terraform, with multiple application components communicating via AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB). The NLB was chosen because the application used a custom protocol (AKKA Cluster Discovery Protocol over TCP), which AWS ALB does not support. Initially, everything worked fine with an external-facing NLB, but the client requested […]

The provided diagram illustrates three similar environments: development, staging, and production. Development and staging are hosted in the same AWS region, while production can optionally be deployed in a region of choice. The infrastructure includes the following components: AWS ECS (or optionally AWS Elastic Beanstalk) for application orchestration. AWS RDS for relational database management. AWS […]

We have lately assisted a client in migrating their application written in Ruby on Rails (RoR) from Heroku to Amazon Web Service (AWS). The migration was motivated by the developing app’s need for greater capacity and flexibility at a minimal cost. It was a production app without testing servers, so there was no room for […]

Common rules DevOps at Onix is responsible for the infrastructure for web projects. Most often, a DevOps engineer is part of the development team. In this case, it has the main tasks:

How we reduced the cost of using AWS resources. In most cases where we reduced the AWS costs the reason was a wrong built architecture, to which we made changes. Sometimes resources were used incorrectly from the beginning, sometimes when the application expanded, the architecture needed to be changed. Since the project is under the […]

Out DevOps Team has a lot of experience to work with many different cloud providers like AWS, DigitalOcean, Google.Cloud, AliCloud and also Microsoft Azure. There is always competition among cloud providers, and they add services that competitors have. At the moment we have experience with several services inside Microsoft Azure in our recent projects. Virtual […]

Logging and monitoring on any infrastructure is an essential part of our work. Here the couple examples what we do.