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We were tasked with optimizing a PHP application running on an Apache2 server to handle a significantly higher number of concurrent users efficiently. The primary goal was to identify the upper limit of the current configuration and implement optimizations to maximize throughput, ensuring stable performance under load. Problem: Initial load testing, conducted using BlazeMeter (leveraging […]

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.

Terraform created the necessary infrastructure in Alicloud to launch the application’s microservices. Terraform scripts have been optimized for Terraform Workspaces. The following Terraform providers were involved: AliCloud, kubernetes. Initially, it was planned to deploy microservices through Terraform, but it was later decided to separate the deployment of the infrastructure from the deployment of the application […]

Jenkins CI server was selected as the main CI tool to collect all application components into one biggest package to further distribution. Jobs for each component have own infrastructure, tests, build steps, etc

Create infrastructure as code for bank application that consists of the frontend, backend, Vault, DB. To create an infrastructure with Terraform I decided to use a Terraform modules structure. Infrastructure consists of this modules: Networking; RDS; Vault; ECS; CodePipeline; The first step is to create VPC. Inside VPC I created subnetwork with route table and […]