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Reporting Without the Panic: A Script’s Perspective

Suvrat Jain — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:24:09 +0000

Can You Trust the Report Sitting in Your Inbox? Every marketing team knows this morning. A report is due. Someone is jumping between five platforms, exporting numbers by hand, pasting them into a sheet, hoping last week’s formula changes didn’t break anything. It goes out late. There’s always a small doubt: did a number land […]

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Terraform State Migration: Seamlessly Moving from AWS S3 to Google Cloud Storage

Ashish Sharma — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:43:10 +0000

Introduction: What if the single source of truth for your entire infrastructure lived in the wrong cloud? For years, our Terraform state lived in an AWS S3 bucket while our infrastructure increasingly ran on Google Cloud Platform. That split created cross-cloud dependencies, IAM complexity, and a growing mismatch between where we managed infrastructure and where […]

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AWS DevOps Agent : Accelerate Incident Response and Improve System Reliability

Pranit Arun Pingale — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:37:00 +0000

Introduction: Imagine receiving a critical production alert at 2 AM. Instead of manually checking logs, metrics, dashboards, and deployment history, what if an AI assistant could instantly analyze the issue, identify the probable root cause, and suggest the next troubleshooting steps? Modern DevOps teams manage increasingly complex cloud environments, making incident investigation both time-consuming and […]

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Automate Weekly Report on Kanban Project – With Zero Additional Cost

Rohit Yadav — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:06:34 +0000

Introduction Every Friday, before sending the weekly status report, I repeated the same routine: open the backlog, scan 60+ rows, identify what changed, extract blockers, update the RAID log, and reformat everything into a professional delivery report. It took 60–90 minutes every week, and almost none of it required real thinking – it was simply […]

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Real-Time GA4 Dashboard Without Over-Engineering It

Ananya Seth — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:42:44 +0000

When the Dashboard Couldn’t Keep Up I was working on a project where the team wanted to monitor website activity as soon as a campaign went live. They didn’t need detailed attribution reports yet – they simply wanted to know whether users were arriving on the site, key events were firing, and registrations were starting […]

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Patching Azure Virtual Machines from AWS Systems Manager using Hybrid Activation

Ausaf Ahmad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:47:35 +0000

Patching Azure VMs from AWS Systems Manager using Hybrid Activation Each cloud platform provides its own native tools, which can lead to fragmented processes and increased administrative overhead. To address this challenge, AWS Systems Manager (SSM) offers a powerful solution through its Hybrid Activation feature. This capability allows non-AWS machines, such as Azure Virtual Machines […]

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Playwright AI Agents: Autonomous Planning, Scripting and Self-Healing Tests

Rahul Khurana — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:08:49 +0000

Introduction Test automation is a core part of software development. Tools like Playwright make end-to-end testing easier with reliable browser automation, smart waits, and strong support for modern web apps. But even with these tools, a lot of work still feels repetitive. Engineers spend significant time on: Planning what to test Writing test scripts Fixing […]

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Fixing JVM OutOfMemoryError on ECS (EC2 Based)

Ahmad Ali — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:08:22 +0000

Introduction We started seeing repeated OutOfMemoryError exceptions in a Spring Boot service running on Amazon ECS in EC2 mode. The impact of the OutOfMemoryError was serious:- JVM threads crashed, including SQS listeners, HTTP threads, and AWS SDK threads. Messages were retried and eventually sent to SQS Dead Letter Queues. The service became unstable under load. […]

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Introduction to Mabl

Tanuj Sunil Rasane — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:14:53 +0000

Introduction to Mabl If you’ve ever been stuck fixing broken Selenium tests at 2 a.m., you know the pain of traditional test automation. A small CSS change or a renamed element ID, and suddenly half your regression suite is red. The team wants to ship. Product is pushing. And QA is caught in the middle.This […]

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Automation of the Future: How n8n and AI are Revolutionizing IT Workflows

Naveen Pundir — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:11:37 +0000

Introduction IT teams are constantly confronted with it-itself an indicator of bigger problems: manual incident resolution, repetitive provisioning, rising cloud costs, and compliance needs. Traditional solutions involve custom scripts, cron jobs, or expensive third-party tools. What if you could automate all of it, smartly, in one location? Welcome to n8n: an open-source, AI-powered workflow automation […]

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From Chaos to Clarity: How We Fixed Jenkins Without Starting Over

Karandeep Singh — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:21:53 +0000

Introduction At To The New, we help customers across various industries develop cutting-edge, scalable infrastructure. However, you must first tame the beast before you can scale anything. And in this case, the beast was Jenkins. Jenkins setups that have grown disorganized over time are a problem for many organisations. Engineers spend more time troubleshooting than […]

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Automating Cron Jobs & Email Alerts with GitHub Actions + JavaScript

Amit Singh Bhandari — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 05:53:41 +0000

Introduction You probably already know how powerful GitHub Workflows are. They can transform the way you consume software and significantly boost your productivity. With them, you can automate almost anything. If you’re new to GitHub Actions or want to understand them in depth, I highly recommend Sudarshan’s excellent post, “GitHub Actions for Seamless CI/CD,” which […]

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