Over the years, I’ve used several providers and techniques to send out email. I used IIS, AWS and few key email providers. The bottom line is, the more email you send, the more you want to rely on a 3rd party to take that burden from your hands. more

There is so much to love about Elastic Search. If you, like me, end up creating more than one cluster, you start to think about automating the task whole task including infrastructure. Cloudformation and ansible scripts can make this tedious job super simple. more

As you scale and increase the amount of boxes and systems that you manage visibility and centralised logging becomes crucial. Logstash and Graylog2 are the perfect combo to tackle this problem. If you’re interested in logging at scale, read on ;-) more