Notes from building and running software.

Notes from the Si Novi team on building custom software: web and mobile engineering, cloud architecture on AWS, serverless, and where AI fits in.

3rd May 20246 min read

AWS Summit London 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?

26th April 20243 min read

Generative AI development services for web applications

How we use generative AI at Si Novi - in our own development work and in the web applications we build for clients - and how we keep business data private and secure when we do.

25th April 20232 min read

Amazon S3 best practice security changes for new buckets

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

AWS CTO Werner Vogels delivering his keynote speach at re:Invent 2022 where he expressed his view that event-driven architectures increase developer speed, and help de-couple logic.

8th December 20225 min read

Event-driven serverless architectures

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.

Amazon EC2 Launch Configurations will Deprecate support for new Instances

30th November 20223 min read

Amazon EC2 Launch Configurations deprecation

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

16th August 20223 min read

AWS withdrawing Lambda support for Node.js 12

Node.js 12 is being withdrawn as a supported runtime for AWS Lambda functions, so any Lambda functions currently using this runtime will need to be updated

2nd July 20227 min read

AWS Summit London 2022

With the AWS Summit London restored following a 2-year COVID-19 hiatus, we were thrilled to attend the summit at ExCel London in April 2022.

22nd September 20213 min read

Agile and iterative software development: Our approach

We incorporate agile methodologies into our software development work and we've seen how agile processes can de-risk development and produce better results.

2nd June 20213 min read

AWS Lambda end of support for Node.js 10

AWS are withdrawing support for Node.js 10 in Lambda functions from 30th July 2021, so updating Lambda functions to a new Node.js runtime will be critical.

4th August 20204 min read

Tools of the Trade: Postman

<p>Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are an integral part of the web platform, allowing software systems to communicate through defined interactions and requests.</p> <p>Read about how we use the Postman app to build, test and deploy the APIs that power the web and mobile applications we develop.</p>