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 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 Dave North | Jun 12, 2019 | Engineering
We process quite a large amount of webhooks from online SAAS applications at Rewind. Webhooks are triggered for us by the web apps we backup whenever something changes (ie. in a Shopify store, if an item changes we receive a webhook for the item). When we receive the...
by Dave North | Feb 7, 2019 | Engineering
At Rewind, we use Sidekiq for almost all of our background processing jobs for our customer backups. It’s a super reliable, highly scalable job processing engine that gives us a lot of control over backup jobs and enables us to break large backups down into small...
