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BlogNavigating the Data & AI Revolution
Harness the power of the Data & AI Revolution with Alfa1 Group and Merapar. Our integrated approach combines strategic consulting and technical expertise to help your enterprise navigate transformation, overcome challenges, and achieve tangible ROI. We build not just algorithms and data lakes, but business value.
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BlogHow AI is driving scrum transformation
Discover how AI is transforming Scrum practices, enhancing workflows, and empowering Scrum Masters to support their teams more effectively and innovatively.
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Blog6 Tips for Platform Migration Done Right
Discover essential tips for successful platform migration, focusing on strategic planning, modular approaches, and simplifying architecture for future-proof, agile systems.
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BlogWhy You Need an Automated Media Supply Chain
Learn how automated media supply chains can prevent broadcasting crises by ensuring reliable, on-time content delivery. Discover the future of media workflows with smart, connected solutions.
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BlogModern vs. Legacy Tech: Moving Beyond Jenkins for CI/CD Success
Jenkins powered CI/CD for a generation of teams, and for many it has become the bottleneck.
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BlogEmpowering Growth Through Agile Learning
Discover how we developed the Merapar Agile Foundations and Meeting Facilitation Courses to enhance collaboration, productivity, and agile practices.
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BlogA cloud strategy talk with Kevin Savina of AWS
AWS’s Kevin Savina on cloud strategy for media and entertainment companies: agility, cost reduction and scalability.
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BlogEnhancing your Content Discovery with Semantic Search
Enhance content discovery with semantic search in TV and media platforms. Learn how advanced technologies like voice input and multimodal LLMs improve user satisfaction and engagement. Discover more in a demo!
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BlogA new Paradigm for the commissioning and delivery of Video Platforms
Discover how agile, hybrid cloud strategies help media companies stay competitive, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation in the M&E industry.
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BlogMerapar’s Secret Sauce: People, Innovation and Agility - Part 2
Explore Merapar’s focus on continuous learning, rewarding work experiences, and open feedback in the second part of our interview series.
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BlogMerapar’s Secret Sauce: People, Innovation and Agility - Part 1
Discover how Merapar fosters innovation and excellence, prioritizes people, and attracts top tech talent in this insightful interview series.
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BlogAgile Is Dead? Complexity Isn’t!
Explore the misconceptions of Agile and the crucial need for business agility in a rapidly changing world.
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BlogInterview with Richard Cross on Achieving AWS M&E Services Competency
In this interview, we speak with Richard Cross from Merapar who will shed light on the importance of achieving the AWS Media & Entertainment Services Competency.
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BlogMerapar Opens USA Office and Hires Mediatech Experts Dan & Mike
Merapar, a mediatech and cloud software pioneer, announced its next growth phase by opening a US office to drive the company’s North American presence.
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BlogAWS Elemental Media Package Integration with EZDRM (Part 2)
EZDRM MediaPackage integration, part 2: playback, and checking licence requests with API Gateway and Lambda.
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BlogAWS Elemental Media Package Integration with EZDRM (Part 1)
EZDRM MediaPackage integration, part 1: getting encryption keys to the packager over SPEKE.
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BlogUtilising AWS Step Functions for Media workflow orchestration
Using AWS Step Functions to orchestrate a media workflow across Elemental MediaConnect, Live, MediaPackage and CloudFront.
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BlogWhere OTT providers can create competitive advantage with recommendations
How OTT providers can use recommendations to engage viewers, lift retention and compete on experience rather than catalogue size.
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BlogMerapar appoints new CEO to drive company growth and industry innovations
Merapar Technologies Ltd, a global technology consultancy and software engineering company, announces the appointment of Alex Terpstra as their new CEO.
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BlogFinally, the CDK CI Pipeline that Serverless deserves
AWS CDK has built-in Pipelines, but they lack features crucial for serverless development. We share an open-source, high-level library for plug-and-play CI/CD.
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BlogHow to bootstrap your GCP organisation using Terraform
Building a Google Cloud Platform project factory with Terraform, so new projects start from a known-good organisational baseline.
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BlogKeeping your Terraform DRY using Terragrunt
Terraform is a great tool for declaring and deploying infrastructure as code, and our preferred tool for GCP projects.
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Secure your database using an Identity Aware Proxy and socks5 on GCP
Explore some of the best practices we use within Merapar to evolve our DevOps practices we have built around the GCP platform.
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BlogSecurely deploy using Google Cloud Identity federation and GitLab
Deploying from GitLab to Google Cloud without long-lived keys, using identity federation and OpenID Connect to issue temporary credentials.
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Blog3 Ways for Sharing Parameters between Microservices
Three ways to pass parameters such as resource names and ARNs between CloudFormation stacks, microservices and AWS accounts.
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BlogSecuring SSH connections using an Identity Aware Proxy on GCP
Secure access to environments within the cloud is vital. Using GCP, a combination of Identity Aware Proxy & temporary ssh credentials is a must.
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BlogMerapar Expands Global Presence with New Technology Hub in the Americas
Merapar’s customers in the Americas will benefit from mission-critical, cloud-native solutions using truly agile practices, delivering results at breakneck speed.
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Blog“Returning felt like coming home”
To perform optimally, we work in teams. Therefore, team spirit is very prominent at Merapar.
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BlogWe invest in future talent
My colleagues are truly good at their job. You don’t often encounter staff of this level. That’s why we invest in new people with potential.
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BlogHello Serverless, Goodbye Git Flow
Many teams have chosen Git Flow, the most complex of the common branching and merging strategies. Serverless makes a simpler one possible.
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BlogServerless project structure - beyond monorepo
Serverless applications are built as monorepos with multiple stacks. Real-life projects contain multiple monorepos, each of them being a microservice.
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BlogUsing AWS AppSync and Amplify in your development process
How AWS AppSync and Amplify let front-end teams drive the API schema and decouple front-end and back-end work.
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BlogControlled schema migration of large scale S3 Parquet data sets
Working with Machine Learning means updating and enhancing your historic data set from time to time.
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BlogAWS SSO CLI v2 and cross account access
How we use AWS SSO with G Suite for identity federation, and AWS CLI v2 for cross-account access.
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BlogCloudFormation macros to create dynamic CloudWatch Dashboards
How we set up monitoring using a single AWS CloudWatch dashboard for a project where we have multiple AWS CloudFront Distributions.
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BlogMerapar DevOps — Use AWS ECS for multi account deployments with Jenkins
To practice continuous integration and continuous deployment, we use multiple environments to manage our development, testing, acceptance and production (DTAP like) workload.
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BlogAWS AppSync: backend caching optimization with CloudFront
Development of an interface between a high-scale backend and a mobile consumer application providing an OTT video streaming service.
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BlogPure serverless machine learning inference with AWS Lambda and Layers
Running scikit-learn inference purely on AWS Lambda, with the model in its own layer, and how the cost compares with a permanently hosted SageMaker endpoint.
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BlogDeploy a highly-available Cassandra cluster in AWS using Kubernetes
Cassandra is the backbone of some of our highly available cloud solutions: a highly available, highly performant, truly horizontally scalable NoSQL database.
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BlogSecuring AWS IAM access in Kubernetes
How to give each Kubernetes pod on AWS its own least-privilege IAM role with kube2iam, and lock down the EC2 metadata API, rather than storing AWS credentials.
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BlogSending GraphQL requests through AWS API Gateway using the Apollo client
Why Merapar built and open-sourced a network interface that lets the Apollo client sign GraphQL requests to AWS API Gateway for Cognito federated identities.
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