How we get dynamic, real-time visibility into your cloud estate As a part of the Sunstone team at Nano Soft Consulting, I get to work with the latest cloud technologies to make our application scalable, performant, reliable and cost-effective. We are a small team of “owner/operator” engineers, which gives us a unique set of challenges. […]
Ever wanted to see the simple concepts hackers use to break into your web application, even without a technical background? In this blog, we take a look at some free and open source security education that puts you in the driver’s seat to use these attacks in a safe and – most importantly – legal […]
Previously on SucculentPi… In the last blog, we built an IoT panopticon to perform seriously overkill monitoring of an unfortunate house plant. After building the solution and writing the blog, I kept an occasional eye on the data flow from the IoT device into AWS for a couple of weeks, and with no signs of trouble […]
Dying house plants? AWS IoT Services to the rescue! In the face of unrelenting house plant death there is only one option; to data the hell out of it! We apply cutting-edge AWS IoT services to extract an unnecessary quantity of data from an unfortunate succulent. Just how far over-the-top can we go? Tune in […]
Without a doubt, Infrastructure as Code together with DevOps and Migrations is one of the hottest topics in the last 5+ years in the cloud industry. A few words about cloud migrations Nano Soft Consulting has been in the cloud migrations business since day 0 in 2009 (yes, we recently turned 13!). At the very […]
What I wish I knew before I started doing lift and shift migrations to AWS In a previous blog post I’ve discussed how to integrate Terraform with rehosting migrations. In this technical article (mainly sysadmin oriented) I’ll discuss what is needed to ensure a smooth migration minimizing surprises on migration day, and what should always be included […]