Blogs
TrackIt Now Offering Training to Assist Companies with Kubernetes Adoption
Born in the cloud in 2014, TrackIt was among the earliest adopters of Docker and Kubernetes. Often used in tandem, the difference between them is that Docker packages containerize applications on a single node, whereas Kubernetes is designed to run them across a...
Migrating Your CDN to Amazon CloudFront – A Step-by-Step Guide
Why CDN Clients are Migrating to Amazon CloudFront Recent trends indicate that an increasing number of enterprises are opting to migrate from Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers such as Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, etc. to the low latency and high transfer speeds...
Creating an OpenBSD 7.0 AMI on AWS EC2
About OpenBSD OpenBSD is a free, multi-platform BSD4.4-based UNIX-like operating system (https://www.openbsd.org/) that integrates cutting-edge security technology. OpenBSD is used for a variety of technologies such as routers, firewalls, SMTP server, DNS server, and...
Proactively Managing Resources Using AWS Terminator
AWS Terminator process At TrackIt, we are acutely aware of AWS costs; we know things can get expensive if you don’t monitor your resources. That’s why we began tagging our resources with (at the minimum) a simple tag: `TrackitPersistent`. This tag value can be true or...
How Serverless Design Helps Maximize Cost Savings and Scalability on AWS
The Idea Behind Serverless Design Have you ever wondered if you should be adopting serverless software design methodologies? In a public cloud such as AWS, Serverless methods provide compute functions without having to reserve compute servers - and you are charged...
What Does the Cloud Actually Do?
Have you ever wondered, "What does the cloud actually do?" Hopefully this short article will help! We’ll use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as our example. It is the most used cloud service... by far. It was also the first to launch, way back in 2006. AWS provides a full...