The Rewind Blog

Stories and ideas about data security and backups.

SPOTLIGHT

6 Reasons Why You Need to Backup Your Ecommerce Store

We compiled the six most common situations in which you’ll be glad you had a backup.

How to Duplicate a Shopify Store in Minutes

Our complete guide to copying a Shopify store to help you manage multiple stores, open a test store, or create a wholesale account.

Ask Me Anything – James Ciesielski, Co-Founder and CTO of Rewind

by Megan Smith | May 14, 2019

Rewind is the leading backup app for platforms such as Shopify, BigCommerce, Quickbooks, Mailchimp, and soon Klaviyo! But how did we get here? Co-founder and CTO, James Ciesielski, sits down to discuss this journey- along with a wide variety of questions we receive...

Adding an HTTP Audit Log to a Ruby Application

by Marc Morinville | Apr 30, 2019

Application logs are awesome. A user just started backing up their store? Nice! Logger.info. An error just happened in the system? Boo! Logger.error. A well-written application-level log can greatly help debug issues and allow you to follow along with what is...

Harnessing The Power of Data… and The Iron Throne

by Daniella Butera | Apr 23, 2019

We’re two weeks away from the most anticipated event of 2019. And no- it’s not another Apple announcement. You guessed it. Winter is HERE ladies and gents. The Game of Thrones Final Season is upon us! And as we prepare for the ultimate song of fire and ice, we bring...

Infrastructure as Code: How Terraform makes it all possible for us

by Dave North | Apr 8, 2019

At Rewind, we’re big believers in the concept of “Infrastructure as Code” and we use a few tools to help us accomplish this. Being a big AWS user, I was very familiar with CloudFormation and joining Rewind, I started to use Terraform as well. I’m often asked the...

How to Back Up Mailchimp (and maybe save your marketing job!)

by Maura Woodman | Mar 26, 2019

This one is for all the Mailchimp users out there. Despite all the social media channels fighting for your ad dollars, good-old email marketing continues to be the most cost-effective way to communicate about your brand and sell your products. Here are some pretty...

Why Am I Getting So Much Web Traffic From Coffeyville? [Solved]

by Henry Brown | Mar 19, 2019

A few months into my new role as Digital Marketing Manager at Rewind, I was digging through our Google Analytics account to prepare some reports. I review some standard signals shortly after month-ends to see if there are any unexpected trends forming that I might...

How We Keep Your Data Secure

by Dave North | Feb 15, 2019

This article is written by Dave North, Rewind's Cloud Architect. Dave has been a versatile member of the Ottawa technology sector for more than 20 years. Prior to Rewind, he was a long time member of Signiant, holding many roles in the organization including sales...

Controlling Sidekiq Workers on AWS with Fargate and SSM Commands

by Dave North | Feb 7, 2019

At Rewind, we use Sidekiq for almost all of our background processing jobs for our customer backups. It’s a super reliable, highly scalable job processing engine that gives us a lot of control over backup jobs and enables us to break large backups down into small...

Feature Flagging in Ruby Using EightBall

by Marc Morinville | Feb 1, 2019

Your team is working on a revolutionary new feature. It’s a very exciting time at work, but you know that, no matter how many precautions you put in place and how many tests you write, introducing a brand new feature to the production environment always carries at...