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How AWS Elemental MediaTailor Uses SCTE-35 for Server-Side Ad Insertion

by TrackIt | September 8, 2025 | Blogs | 0 Comments

Written by Nathan de Balthasar, Software Engineer at TrackIt Digital ad insertion in streaming workflows relies on precise signals that indicate when and where ads should play. Without these markers, platforms cannot synchronize breaks, resulting in poor viewer...

Building Cyber Resilience Through Capture the Flag (CTF) Events

by TrackIt | September 2, 2025 | Blogs | 0 Comments

Capture the Flag (CTF) events are hands-on cybersecurity exercises where participants are challenged to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in simulated environments. Unlike traditional training, a CTF places participants in the attacker’s seat, helping them...

SCTE-35 Standard: Core Signaling for Digital Ad Insertion

by TrackIt | August 13, 2025 | Blogs | 0 Comments

Written by Nathan de Balthasar, Software Engineer at TrackIt Digital advertising in broadcast and streaming environments depends on precise signaling to identify when and where ads should be inserted into video content. Whether for traditional cable television,...

Amazon DynamoDB to Aurora PostgreSQL ETL Pipeline Architecture

Apr 2, 2020 | Blogs

Deriving The Benefits of Both NoSQL and SQL Databases In a world where an ever-increasing amount of data is being gathered, companies often find themselves without the tools to optimally use the often unstructured data they’ve gathered. To get a better idea of what...

AWS API Gateway 101: Creating an API with Python, Cognito, and Serverless

Mar 26, 2020 | Blogs

The goal of this tutorial is to return a “Hello World” if you connect and authenticate successfully to our 100% serverless application. You will discover in this article how to take advantage of AWS Cognito, deploy an AWS API Gateway and a few lambda functions through...

Caveats of Completely Moving an IIS Website to a Windows Container

Feb 14, 2019 | Blogs

Microsoft has introduced Windows Containers, which are based on the same technology as Linux containers, but have some gotcha and caveats to them, especially when working with provided Microsoft images. If you want to learn more about Windows Containers Size One of...

Migrating Windows Application to Containers on Amazon ECS

Jan 23, 2019 | Blogs

We recently had to migrate an ASP web application to Docker. ECS fully supports Windows containers, if you are aware of some limitations and workaround compared to Linux. Introduction Migrating a web application to Docker can provide many benefits, such as increased...

How to Effectively Optimize Instance Sizes on AWS – A Step-by-Step Guide

Jan 11, 2019 | Blogs

The subject of optimizing instance sizes is one that most prudent AWS users often think about. However, they often do not possess the means nor the knowledge to carry out this task effectively. The truth is that there’s a certain degree of complexity that needs to be...

Effectively Manage Resources on AWS Using Amazon CloudWatch & the TrackIt Cost Management App

Jan 8, 2019 | Blogs

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. CloudWatch gives users the ability to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in AWS resources. The...