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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 […]

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

SOA project’s components The project contains the next list of components: Application with http access (Python applications based on Tornado framework and go application with http access to them). Applications (Python application) that read queries and execute necessary actions. Hashicorp Consul (https://www.consul.io/) service for automatic discovery of services. Ebay Fabio (https://github.com/fabiolb/fabio) is used as http, […]

We are taking advantage of AWS and its services and have a solid experience with Docker and “dockerizing” applications written in various languages: NodeJS, Golang, Kotlin, PHP, Python. We deployed different environments: from the easiest one-server deployment with 3-5 containers using Ansible to environments with scaling groups on AWS with 10-20 microservices using Terraform.

Local tools Google cAdvisor sudo docker run –volume=/:/rootfs:ro –volume=/var/run:/var/run:rw –volume=/sys:/sys:ro –volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 –rm google/cadvisor:latest