Blogs

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,...

2018 – TrackIt is Officially an Amazon AWS Advanced Technology Partner

Nov 12, 2018 | Blogs

Today TrackIt Achieves Advanced Technology Partner Status in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network! After 5 years of work around AWS technology and 2 years of software development to help our clients to solve their AWS cost management issues, we are proud today to...

Analyze Your Amazon S3 Bucket Permission and Detect Security Threats

Mar 7, 2018 | Blogs

The last few months, thousands of s3 buckets have been discovered as public buckets. A total of 10% of AWS s3 buckets are public-configured buckets. We know it can be a lot of work to manually check every bucket. That's why we are going to explain to you how to...

TrackIt Cost Management App – Installation & Setup

Feb 23, 2018 | Blogs

At the end of this article, you will have a configured and usable TrackIt monitoring your AWS costs and generating reports to optimize your cloud on your own. TIP: Don't want to host TrackIt? You can use it without any installation by using our infrastructure....

Introducing TrackIt v2 – The Latest Version of the TrackIt Cost Management App

Jan 25, 2018 | Blogs

We are proud to present the new, revamped version of our cloud management platform, TrackIt v2. All the things you love about the first version, but better! The new version of our SaaS platform is efficient in cost management and reporting, helping you reduce your AWS...

Installing the TrackIt App on an Amazon EC2 Instance – A Step-by-Step Guide

Oct 30, 2017 | Blogs

NOTE: This article will assume you are familiar with AWS and EC2. If not, check the AWS EC2 documentation before continuing. At the end of this article, you will have an AWS EC2 instance started with TrackIt installed, and you will be able to monitor and...

Managing your Containers with Terraform, Consul and Nomad on Amazon EC2

Sep 26, 2017 | Blogs

TL;DR: Pull ssh://git@github.com/trackit/ec2-hashicorp-tutorial.git, it contains Packer files for Consul and Nomad nodes, and a Terraform spec so you can get up and running with a minimal setup as quick as possible. In this article series I will show you how you can...