Dave NorthCI/CD for AWS SAM with Buddy WorksDisclaimer: I don’t work for Buddy or have any endorsement contract with the folks at Buddy. I do however have a love for great technology…Nov 17, 2020Nov 17, 2020
Dave NorthCurated AWS SSM ScriptsWe’ve written in a previous article about Rewind’s use of AWS SSM Session Manager and associated IAM policies to allow shell and SSH…Sep 18, 2020Sep 18, 2020
Dave NorthAggregating webhooks with DynamoDB and SQS delay queuesWebhooks and the processing of them are a big part of Rewind backups. We’re now processing over 300 million hooks per month at a peak rate…Jun 26, 2020Jun 26, 2020
Dave NorthAutomated Terraform Deployments to AWS with Github ActionsWe’ve written in a previous blog post how Terraform helps us manage a lot of infrastructure for several platforms in a consistent manner…Mar 17, 20202Mar 17, 20202
Dave NorthinBigCommerce Developer BlogWhy Rewind Said Hello to AWS Session Manager and Goodbye to SSHAt Rewind, we generally subscribe to the “treat your servers like cattle, not pets” mantra yet we still have the occasional requirement to…Feb 21, 2020Feb 21, 2020
Dave NorthHello AWS Session Manager; Farewell SSHAt Rewind, we generally subscribe to the “treat your servers like cattle, not pets” mantra yet we still have the occasional requirement to…Feb 12, 20204Feb 12, 20204
Dave NorthUsing S3 batch to tag data for removalI’d written a previous post about using dynamic S3 lifecycle rules to purge large volumes of data from S3. In that post, I talked about…Jan 8, 2020Jan 8, 2020
Dave NorthinBigCommerce Developer BlogHow Rewind Manages Data Using an Army of Fargate Spot WorkersAt Rewind, we backup SAAS application data. Quite a lot of it. We take a lot of care in how we secure and manage the data we store because…Dec 23, 2019Dec 23, 2019
Dave NorthinBigCommerce Developer BlogInfrastructure as Code: How Terraform Makes It All PossibleAt Rewind, we’re big believers in the concept of “Infrastructure as Code” and we use a few tools to help us accomplish this.Apr 8, 2019Apr 8, 2019
Dave NorthinBigCommerce Developer BlogControlling Sidekiq Workers on AWS with Fargate and SSM CommandsAt Rewind, we use Sidekiq for almost all of our background processing jobs for our customer backups.Feb 7, 2019Feb 7, 2019
