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Digital projects

Are You in Control of Your Own Application?

8th November 2024

Control over your web application's future depends on securing essential resources like domains, code, and cloud accounts. This guide helps you navigate key steps to avoid vendor lock-in and maintain full ownership, ensuring that your app’s growth remains in your hands

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Digital projects

Consider these 5 vital aspects when commissioning a digital project

2nd October 2024

In this article we discuss five key factors to plan for when commissioning a digital project. These considerations will help guide your project effectively and avoid common pitfalls.

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Development languages

Rust variables vs JavaScript variables: A comparison

25th September 2024

In recent projects we've been looking at Rust as an alternative to Node.js Lambda functions and as a language to write cross-platform desktop applications. In learning a new language, we've been comparing the syntax of Rust to our familiar languages of JavaScript and TypeScript.

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DevOps

Managing SSH keys with the 1Password SSH Agent

14th August 2024

A summary of how we use the 1Password SSH agent to manage and use SSH keys securely.

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DevOps Notes

Github Slack App: subscribe to all commits

28th May 2024

How to use the Github Slack App to subscribe to commits to all branches of a Github repository

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AWS Summit London 2024

AWS Summit London 2024

3rd May 2024

We were thrilled to book our place at the AWS Summit London again this year. With a huge focus on GenAI, the event was bigger than ever in 2024 - but was it better?

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AWS S3 Cloud Storage

Amazon S3 best practice security changes for new buckets

25th April 2023

In April 2023 Amazon S3 will change the default security configuration for all new S3 buckets, making buckets private by default across all creation mechanisms

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AWS Development

Event-driven serverless architectures

8th December 2022

At Si Novi we specialise in building and designing serverless architectures. We explain the benefits of serverless computing, and introduce some key components of the serverless computing model, such as AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and event-driven architecture.

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AWS Compute

Amazon EC2 Launch Configurations deprecation

30th November 2022

How to migrate to Launch Templates Amazon EC2 Launch Configurations will deprecate support for new instances from December 2022

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Serverless Development

AWS withdrawing Lambda support for Node.js 12

16th August 2022

Node.js 12 is being withdrawn as a supported runtime for AWS Lambda functions, so any Lambda functions currently using this runtime will need to be updated

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