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...
by Marc Morinville | Aug 28, 2020 | Engineering
Or, Making a Sandwich Using Sidekiq When something goes wrong with your data, Rewind Backups is there to help you restore it back to the way it was. The process for doing this is actually a little more complicated than one might imagine: every platform Rewind...
by Dave North | Aug 5, 2020 | Engineering
At Rewind, we have a requirement to remove data from AWS S3 based on an external time criteria. We settled on using S3 batch and some tooling around this to handle the removal of the data “automagically” using tagging and S3 content lifecycle rules....
