The power of query selection — Setting the Stage We have multiple production environments at BigPanda. Our Event Driven Architecture consists of many different microservices and data stores. One of the essential data stores is Elasticsearch. We have multiple clusters in each environment that serve data to various microservices. The environments at BigPanda are fully managed as Code using…

Terraform Tips — #1 — HashiCorp Terraform is a great and useful tool that every DevOps Practitioner should know for creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code. We use Terraform extensively here at BigPanda to fully manage and define our SAAS Infrastructure as Code. …

Terraform Tips #2 — I recently posted about restoring and recreating Terraform code and resources by delving into the state file. I’d like to continue with another useful tip for Terraform code, this time from the coding aspect. Here at BigPanda we manage and define our Cloud-based infrastructure as code using Terraform. In a…

Consider these five essential pillars when developing your Disaster Recovery Plan and Strategy. Disaster is Inevitable In the digital world, the question isn’t if disaster will strike but when that will occur. Many events could disrupt digital operations, from power outages to ransomware attacks, server failures, and even natural disasters. An essential step…

One Year at BigPanda I joined BigPanda as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at the beginning of 2022, recently celebrating my first work anniversary. When reflecting on the one-year milestone, I had many thoughts. But the most important reflections were about the many ways I found myself improving in the past year. When starting…

נשאלתי לאחרונה בדיון בלינקדאין על ידי כמה אנשים שאינם מתחום התוכנה שביקשו הבהרה, מהו פוד בקוברנטיס? 🐋🐋🐋 התחלתי לכתוב תגובה, אך גיליתי שחרגתי בהרבה ממקסימום כמות התווים האפשרית לתגובה בלינקדאין... 📝✍️ !לכן כתבתי את המאמרון הבא, מקוה שהוא מבהיר ?קונטיירים, למה השימוש הנפוץ במה שנקרא "קונטיינרים" היום הוא בעיקר בגלל שני דברים. 1…

A friend recently shared a picture of 2 email inboxes, the right side was with a notification ticker of a couple of thousand unread messages, the left side, zero. His question was: which one are you? My two cents on the matter was as follows: Five (and a bit) Rules…

I recently solved an issue with ownership of objects in one of our publicly facing S3 buckets that I’d like to share with you. I work at Equalum, a clustered, highly available Big Data integration Software aimed at enterprise customers. Our customers use Equalum for running Streaming Big Data pipelines…