Pterodactyl is a server management platform that uses Docker containers to manage instances of applications. It’s designed for running, configuring, and managing headless game servers, like Minecraft servers, but can be used for other application…
Setting up database backups is the most important thing to handle as a database administrator. While Database-as-a-Service platforms like RDS support automatic backups out of the box, if you’re running your own server, you’ll need to set up…
C#’s IEnumerable and IEnumerator interfaces are used by collections like Arrays and Lists to standardize methods of looping over them and performing actions, like filtering and selecting with LINQ statements. We’ll discuss how they work, an…
One of the many struggles of developing applications for a mobile audience is testing your app—with so many different devices, you’re usually limited to how many you have on hand. AWS DeviceFarm makes this process easier.Read This Article on Cl…
If you’ve tried to use Git with multiple different providers, or with multiple different accounts, you may run into issues with authenticated them both at the same time. Here’s how to manage two accounts without running into conflicts.Read …
A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) file is something you generate and give to a Certificate Authority, who in turn signs and sends you the requested SSL certificate that used for enabling HTTPS on your web server.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT &rs…
The AWS IAM Management Console lists over 500 assignable permissions-based policies you can give to enable your IAM users to access different services. What do they all do, and how can you configure your own?Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›
AWS Elastic IPs are permanently reserved IP addresses that you can associate with a running EC2 instance, and that persist across reboots and even server changes, so you won’t have to change your DNS whenever your server restarts.Read This Articl…
AWS uses Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) for many things, including the IAM permissions system, where they are used to whitelist access to specific AWS resources rather than giving service-wide access. In general, they’re a unique account-wide ident…
Columnar formats, such as Apache Parquet, offer great compression savings and are much easier to scan, process, and analyze than other formats such as CSV. In this article, we show you how to convert your CSV data to Parquet using AWS Glue.Read This Ar…
AWS has data centers located all over the world. To complicate their pricing further, each region has different prices for certain products. Which region is the cheapest? Which one should you build your network architecture in?Read This Article on Clou…
If your application needs a way to convert text to speech programmatically to interact with users, AWS has a managed service that uses machine learning to create lifelike believable voices that improve your user experience significantly.Read This Artic…
One of the largest costs of AWS is bandwidth—it’s expensive, especially if your app is dependant on serving content. Compressing the images you serve can reduce your bill significantly, as well as save you money on the storage costs.Read Th…
Spot Instances enable you to rent spare EC2 compute capacity at a fraction of the cost of On-Demand. They can be interrupted at any time, but when used in an auto scaling group they make for a great replacement for On-Demand.Read This Article on CloudS…
Git is complicated. When you’re working in a team, managing unexpected git errors can be a hassle, and you don’t want to waste development time fixing git problems when you could be coding. A GUI git client can remedy these issues.Read T…
AWS has many services for storing data, enough to fit most use cases, all of which have different pricing models. We’ll explain each one, what you would use them for, and how much they’ll cost you.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›
S3 is Amazon’s primary storage service for hosting media files and other large objects. Like most AWS services, the pricing model is quite complicated, so we’re here to explain how it works.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›
As an aspiring game developer, this is the single biggest question you must answer before beginning your project. Your game engine effects how you build your game, what kinds of issues you may run into, and even how much money you make.Read This Articl…
Two main ways exist to manage employee access to your company AWS account—IAM users and AWS Organizations. Both have their uses, but it’s important to highlight the differences while planning your AWS permission structure.Read This Article …
GameLift is a platform built by AWS specifically created for running video game servers. It is built to save costs by automatically scaling the number of instances based on the fluctuating demand, and it can also handle matchmaking for you.Read This Ar…