AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing ALB (finally)


Three years ago, I wrote a blog on how to Consolidate Elastic Beanstalk ELB. If you have not done it yet, then you don't need to do it in that way now. As just a couple days ago, AWS finally announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk … Continue reading AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing ALB (finally) →

Optimal Synchrony Setup


The application that works behind Confluence Collaborative Editing is called Synchrony. Synchrony works in two modes: Standalone and Managed by Confluence. Standalone: As the name suggests, it is setup as a standalone cluster which is dedicated for Collaborative Editing. Managed by Confluence: Synchrony is co-located with Confluence in the same cluster. And it is managed … Continue reading Optimal Synchrony Setup →

Load Balancing Algorithm for Confluence


We recently migrated Confluence Data Center to AWS. And by using the Read-Only mode, we achieved zero downtime! Everything works well since the migration. During the working hours, the normal load is between 6000 to 7500 RPM (request per minute). And the two node cluster is still able to provide satisfying response time while the … Continue reading Load Balancing Algorithm for Confluence →

Endpoint policies for gateway endpoints


The Cloud Conformity VPC Endpoint Exposed check brought my attention to this one, as I think they have a bug in this check: https://www.cloudconformity.com/knowledge-base/aws/VPC/endpoint-exposed.html There are two types of VPC endpoint: Interface and Gateway (S3, DynamoDB). What are suggested in the above link only applies to the Interface endpoint, but not the Gateway endpoint. As … Continue reading Endpoint policies for gateway endpoints →

Confluence system plugins that do not support cluster environment


If you are doing the following Confluence migration, you have to be aware of that some system plugins do not support cluster environment. Confluence server to Confluence data center clusterConfluence data centre non-clustered (single node) to Confluence data centre clustered (multiple nodes) A simple example is the 'Confluence Usage Stats' which provides the macros like … Continue reading Confluence system plugins that do not support cluster environment →