The Rewind Blog
Stories and ideas about data security and backups.
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.
How We Keep Your Data Secure
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
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
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...
Rewind Reflects – Looking Back at 2018
We’ve had an amazing 2018 at Rewind. As we take a moment to look back over the last year, it’s easy to see that we’re continuing to grow and evolve to meet the ever changing needs of online business owners. The ecommerce ecosystem is constantly advancing and we’re...
Automatic CloudFront Invalidation for S3 Origins
Welcome to the first post on the Rewind engineering blog. We’re hoping to share some of the interesting technology problems we’re solving and solutions we’ve come up with. To kick things off, here’s a small solution to a common problem - automatically forcing a...
Why Should I Back Up My Web Apps? And More of Your Questions Answered
We’ll be the first to admit that it isn’t immediately obvious to everyone why you need to back up your web apps. Even our co-founder James Ciesielski questioned it when Mike Potter first pitched the idea of backing up Shopify stores. And yet, here we are today with...
Black Friday Downtime: What it Cost Gymshark and Why Rewind is their New Backup Plan
This holiday season, three years after Gymshark experienced their biggest Black Friday nightmare, their technology team isn’t taking any chances. To limit any risk of downtime, Gymshark is using Rewind to backup all 14 of their Shopify stores. But it was only a couple...
Meet the Team: Spencer Band, Sales Expert at Rewind
William Clement Stone once said: “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesperson, not the attitude of the prospect.” Without a strong, friendly, and understanding sales team, no business can truly succeed - even with the best of products. The...
How To Calculate Your Ecommerce Downtime Cost
If your revenue is entirely dependent on selling online, then downtime is the Joker to your Batman. When your online store isn’t functioning properly, even for as little as 30 minutes, you are turning customers away at the door. Any extended period of downtime will...
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