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For a long time VGS services have utilized common tools such as rate limiting and autoscaling to help meet the needs of our customers and elevate our infrastructure's resilience to meet the increasing demands of our customers. This has meant tackling a crucial challenge: implementing a robust workload partitioning architecture that both improves developer velocity and provides improved resiliency.

In the last few years, we’ve recognized the need to invest and elevate our infrastructure's resilience to meet the increasing demands of our customers such as building a platform that is able to recover when region level failure events occur.

GenAI tools offer immense potential to revolutionize daily workflows, streamline processes, and improve productivity. However, there’s no universal roadmap for implementing these tools, making it crucial for companies to explore and experiment to find what works best.

If you are in FinOps, a Cloud Infrastructure developer in payments, or just want to manage AWS infrastructure costs efficiently, check this out.

It’s really important to align closely with business priorities and have a point of view on what’s coming in the way of your team’s effectiveness. As an engineering manager, you might take each of these phases and use the framing to establish and document your ways of working.

This post documents some of the challenges we’ve faced as we’ve tried to upgrade our applications to Java 17 and we hope some of the lessons we’ve learnt will be useful to other engineers.

The Very Good Security (VGS) Collect iOS and Collect Android SDKs are powerful tools designed to enable the secure collection of sensitive user data. In an age where privacy, compliance, and data security are paramount, these SDKs play a crucial role in helping developers handle sensitive information like credit card numbers, social security numbers, and personal identification information.

Explore how to manage infrastructure environments at scale using Terraform and Terragrunt. We unpack the challenges of blast radius and time-to-deploy, and propose a solution that combines the benefits of both tools while minimizing statefile size and reducing plan and apply times.

Explore secure data warehousing using the VGS Vault Tokenizer Native App on Snowflake. We walk you through the process of tokenizing sensitive data, managing user roles, configuring data tiers, and integrating tokenization into your data pipeline on Snowflake for improved security and compliance.

Envoy is a powerful open-source modern HTTP proxy server. It doesn't just serve as a proxy; it’s also a swiss army knife widely used in current cloud infrastructure, thanks to the extensible filter design. The best part of Envoy's filter is that you can define your own filtering, routing and transformation logic easily with Lua or WASM and plug them into the Envoy server to achieve things that cannot be done with the built-in filters.