by DJ Pham | Jul 21, 2021 | #TeamRewind, Engineering
At Rewind, we’ve got a lot of data to move, store, and secure – nearly 2 petabytes worth in multiple AWS VPCs. As you may know, we use AWS Lambda to execute (some) of the serverless functions of the Rewind Vault. Elasticache is used for our Redis clusters, an...
by Dave Gallant | Jul 5, 2021 | Engineering
With the increased adoption of continuous deployment, more and more organizations have increased their deployment frequency in order to get their latest products into the hands of their customers as quickly as possible. A complement to this fast-paced deployment...
by Mandeep Khinda | Mar 18, 2021 | Engineering
Co-authored by Sanket Patel Introduction Do you have a Rails 5 (or older) app that uses Sidekiq and want to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of both? If you do, then stick around for some helpful tips and tricks we discovered while going through this...
by Sanket Patel | Sep 24, 2020 | Engineering, How To
When something goes wrong with your data, Rewind Backups is there to help you restore it back to the way it was. This requires us to securely store a great deal of customer data. In this post, we’re going to look at one solution we’re using to prevent a specific type...
by Jason Meredith | Sep 20, 2020 | Engineering
Do you ever find yourself starting up your Rails app, walking away to make a coffee, and coming back only to find it still compiling assets? If so – you’re not alone. A growing issue for today’s Rails developers is the increasingly frustrating asset compilation...
by Sanket Patel | Sep 18, 2020 | Engineering
We’ve written in a previous article about Rewind’s use of AWS SSM Session Manager and associated IAM policies to allow shell and SSH tunnel access to AWS resources. We also open sourced a small tool we created to make use of SSM easier called aws-connect. But what if...
