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Dave North

Aggregating webhooks with DynamoDB and SQS delay queues

Aggregating Webhooks with DynamoDB and SQS Delay Queues

Webhooks and the processing of them are a big part of Rewind backups. We’re now processing over 300 million hooks...

Simple Caching in AWS Lambda Functions

We process quite a large amount of webhooks from online SAAS applications at Rewind. Webhooks are triggered for us by...

Infrastructure as Code: How Terraform makes it all possible for us

At Rewind, we’re big believers in the concept of “Infrastructure as Code” and we use a few tools to help...

How Rewind Keeps Your Data Secure

This article is written by Dave North, Rewind’s Cloud Architect. Dave has been a versatile member of the Ottawa technology sector...

Controlling Sidekiq Workers on AWS with Fargate and SSM Commands

At Rewind, we use Sidekiq for almost all of our background processing jobs for our customer backups. It’s a super...

Automatic CloudFront Invalidation for S3 Origins

Welcome to the first post on the Rewind engineering blog.  We’re hoping to share some of the interesting technology problems...