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.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk console for Platform Version Retirement

19th February 20203 min read

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Platform Version Retirement

Updating your AWS Elastic Beanstalk platform versions should happen regularly. learn more about the need to migrate away from a retiring platform version

Application monitoring dashboard in Amazon CloudWatch

7th February 20204 min read

Web Application Dashboards in AWS CloudWatch

Amazon Web Services' CloudWatch service offers powerful logging, charting and dashboard features. In this article we consider the use cases for use CloudWatch to create application monitoring dashboards, as well as building dashboard applications in their own right.

Close-up of Yii framework source code showing version 2.0.30

13th December 20194 min read

Challenges and opportunities of migrating from Yii 1 to Yii 2

We're coming to the end of our latest Yii 1 upgrade project, one of our largest Yii 1 migrations to date - and a good time to reflect on the challenges and opportunities that updating from Yii 1 brings.

Two people connect stacks of paper to a shared network of software modules through flowing teal ribbons.

13th December 20193 min read

Digital Transformation

Si Novi builds bespoke web and cloud applications, integrating systems through APIs and databases, to drive digital transformation for businesses of all sizes. We work in partnership with clients to automate and scale their processes, including a tooling distribution application delivered for Jaguar Land Rover.