Progress in Developing Automated Tools for IT Professionals
At Software Planet Group, we continue to invest in the development of bespoke tools aimed at streamlining the work of IT professionals. Our recent advances in integrating large language models (LLMs) with custom toolchains may…
DevOps from Day One: How to Avoid Turning Your Infrastructure into a Digital Favela
There is one common yet consistently underestimated mistake that often becomes critical for any technology startup over time: launching a project without involving a DevOps engineer. At first, it might seem that everything can be…
Harnessing Large Language Models for Efficient Software Development
Introduction The recent wave of agentic large language models (LLMs) has persuaded many executives that code can now be generated at the press of a button. Seasoned engineers know better: when used naïvely, an LLM…
Implementing an automated Code Review service
In the current technology-driven landscape, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) assistants has become a competitive necessity rather than an optional luxury. To remain at the forefront of innovation and efficiency in software development, Software Planet Group…
From Legacy to Containers: Transforming Project Infrastructure
In today's rapidly evolving software development landscape, maintaining secure, consistent, and easily manageable infrastructure environments is crucial. In our recent initiative, we took over a client's project previously developed and managed by another vendor. Our…
From Memset to Amazon S3: How We Moved Critical Data with Near-Zero Downtime
Our client faced an urgent challenge: migrating their entire infrastructure from Memset Cloud Storage to IOmart (with Amazon S3 used as a foundation), as Memset had been acquired by IOmart and was shutting down its…
Heroku Ruby Migration In Less Than 2 Weeks
Migrating legacy systems to contemporary stacks is an inevitability for CTOs and technically inclined CEOs managing scalable operations. Beyond simply maintaining security updates, these upgrades offer strategic opportunities for application modernisation, performance optimisation, and infrastructure…
Dependency Roulette: How One Tiny Update Took Down Production
Third-party dependencies are a double-edged sword—convenient until they suddenly break everything. Here’s a real-world incident from our collection that perfectly illustrates this risk.The Setup: How We Managed Python DependenciesWe use the pretty standard and simple…
Lost in Translation: When ‘False’ Means ‘True’
Three days of troubleshooting over one conversion... Yes, it happens. Here’s how.We develop a software suite for cognitive testing, helping researchers detect early signs of dementia. The suite includes:A Swift-based iPad appA Node.js web applicationOne…
Cryptominer Alert: How a Student Exploited a Lab Environment
In today’s digital age, many educational institutions rely on innovative platforms to make hands-on learning more accessible. A client providing a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for educational purposes faced an unexpected challenge. Their…