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Use the power of PowerApps for fast data updates
We continue our series of blog posts dedicated to a large pharmaceutical company that required a broad range of infrastructure monitoring services. In this chapter, we will focus on the application that helps their sales team comply with the company rules. The customer created an iOS and Android app that stored compliance policies for regular activities of the sales team. Their sales agents are using the app to find information on regular activities. For example, they could clarify the company’s […]
License inventory for a large SQL Server database infrastructure
Here’s a new entry to our series of posts on how the ABCloudz team has helped a large pharmaceutical company manage its sophisticated data infrastructure. The customer’s business is rapidly growing, which leads to a significant expansion of their data infrastructure. This infrastructure has exceeded 140 SQL Servers united by complex connections and ETL scripts. In such conditions, making all databases efficient and consistent became a challenge. The customer decided to organize and upgrade all SQL Servers and the rest […]
How to cover monitoring gaps for a large SQL Server data infrastructure
Our client is a large pharmaceutical company with a sophisticated data infrastructure. Along with the company’s rapid growth, its data infrastructure started growing as well. At one point, their data infrastructure exceeded 140 SQL Servers united by multiple scripts and connections. This growth made its maintenance more challenging and time-consuming. The customer created a professional support and monitoring team to handle any data infrastructure issues, but this did not solve the entire problem. The customer still had issues with organizing […]
DevOps and test automation: Docker saves the day!
Recently, the ABCloudz team migrated a customer’s database from Apache Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB. As part of this project, we needed to run multiple tests to ensure perfect quality for our delivery. However, we faced a problem in setting up the test environment. Even though we were using AWS CloudFormation templates for the EC2 instances, it was taking over 30 mins to get the dev/test environment setup. In addition, our developers couldn’t run parallel regression testing. So, we decided to leverage Docker to automate the environment set up.
In this blog post, we will share our experience with using Docker for automating a NoSQL database migration dev/test environment.
