What is Immutable Infrastructure? Simply put, your hardware stack is created and maintained using the programming concept of immutability: once something is instantiated, it is immutable and does not change. If an update is needed (either from a scheduled upgrade or bug), a new instance is created to replace the existing one. Thus, once a component is launched it...
At Koddi we're always looking for ways to increase the speed and stability of our platform. One of our latest projects is speeding up our daily ingestion of data. All of our data is initially stored in flat files on S3 before being loaded into our database. We're currently in the process of integrating Apache Spark into our load process...
So you may remember from our article in November of 2014 about our switch to Redshift, that Koddi uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power our platform. While we have moved some of our data to Redshift, we still have quite a bit in MySQL (RDS), and at the beginning of this year we needed to move our main database from...