<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ershus">Ershad Kunnakkadan</a>
of BigBinary was our guest in this episode.
We discussed best practices of managing infrastructure resources.
Ershad tells us about how he reduced infrastructure cost by
applying a few simple techniques.</p>

<ul>
  <li>Using suitable MongoDB hosting service.</li>
  <li>Efficient use of Cloudfront and CDN for content distribution and caching.</li>
  <li>Securing web applications using WAF.</li>
  <li>Rate-limiting using rack-attack gem.</li>
  <li>Auto-scaling applications using CloudWatch metrics.</li>
</ul>

<h4 id="links-mentioned-in-this-episode">Links Mentioned in This Episode</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/BigBinary">BigBinary on Twitter</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/Rahul_Mahale">Rahul on Twitter</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/ershus">Ershad on Twitter</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.consul.io/">Consul</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.vaultproject.io/">Vault</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://mlab.com/">Mlab</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/">Cloudflare</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/waf/">AWS WAF</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack">Rack-attack</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.nomadproject.io/">Nomad</a></li>
</ul>

Ep. 13: BigBinary's monthly infrastructure podcast

A biweekly podcast discussing the changes in devops. It is hosted by Rahul and other team members from BigBinary.