Blue Sentry was engaged to help streamline systems for a provider of data monitoring services in the cloud. Blue Sentry’s engineers spent months working with their client’s internal team to help support a Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach.  During one of the regularly scheduled cadence calls, it was mentioned that the client’s development teams needed to be able to spin …
When you apply database changes, whether automated as part of a CICD process, or manually in the legacy solution, what do you do when an error occurs? Do you undo all the changes applied so you can analyze the issue or do you search for an immediate solution so you can finish all the changes?  Both options have pros and …
Blue Sentry worked with a large residential property insurance carrier to help them save substantially on their AWS footprint. The company, an existing Blue Sentry managed service client with a large AWS presence, relies on Blue Sentry to monitor and proactively adjust its environment for performance, reliability, and cost optimization. As a result of this long and mutually beneficial relationship, …
The COVID-19 pandemic caused many businesses to re-evaluate the means by which they backup and protect their digital platforms and mission-critical data. Blue Sentry worked with one such customer – a company that supports a unique platform to provide critical event management, alerting and notification services in a real-time fashion. Keeping Up with Demand As the COVID 19 crisis intensified, …
Achieving product market fit is perhaps the hardest part of building a successful start-up. Unfortunately, it is also the one thing without which a start-up cannot succeed. The speed with which you can achieve product market fit determines whether you run out of capital before getting traction in the market. And, the speed with which you can refine that fit …
Security is on everyone’s mind these days. If you are responsible for managing an IT environment or deploying new products, security is likely a critical consideration for your company. Of course, the daily headlines about security breaches and new threats would unsettle even the most seasoned IT manager. At Blue Sentry, security is built into everything we do — even …
It’s amazing how the skills we learned as a kid continue to help us today. Here’s an example: Software developers couldn’t do the most critical parts of their job without a nod to a fun activity from their youth — the sandbox. Much like the dirt-filled play place of our childhood, today’s development sandbox holds within it a world of …
The first thing most companies consider when considering a cloud migration is, of course, cost. Doing a Total Cost of Ownership (“TCO”) analysis for current infrastructure and comparing it to the projected TCO for cloud operations is a critical exercise in building a business case. But simply comparing costs does not answer any strategic questions or add long term business …
We know the challenge: You wish to fully automate your pipeline, but you haven’t considered what it would take to integrate relational database changes into your CI/CD process. Skipping this step is a recipe for disaster — but often, this part of the integration is overlooked, postponed, or perhaps even ignored. This may be due to the sheer enormity of …
ATLANTA, GA — September 22, 2020 — Blue Sentry, a Premier Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), is now offering a free program through which large and mid-market enterprises can get a clear picture of the cost savings to be realized from a move of their IT infrastructure to the Cloud. Through a partnership with …
