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…
What Affects a Project Schedule: A Load Balancing Story
Part 1. This Is Not the Load Balancer You’re Looking For…When assessing the scope of a new project, we always do our best to estimate the required level of effort as accurately as we possibly…
How to Audit Your Cloud Infrastructure Expenses (Amazon Based)?
Many projects rely on cloud infrastructure. Over time, as the infrastructure grows, so do the accompanying bills. This can often lead to the need for AWS cost optimisation.Software Planet Group were recently approached by a client…
How to Totally Fubar Your Cloud Infrastructure Costs
We tend to entrust our infrastructure in the cloud to the titans of the industry, relying on their tried-and-tested expertise, resources, resilience and capacity. After all, they enable our cloud solutions to take advantage of…
Amazon Elastic Block Store: Upgrading from GP2 to GP3
While we love developing software solutions for all of our customers, configuration and optimisation is yet another facet of our software services, often in the form of DevOps. As a result, even when our own…
The Amazon EKS Access Trap
The Amazon EKS Access Trap: How Not to Lose Control Over Your Own Clusters While some will have already worked with the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) — and are therefore perfectly familiar with this…
Cloud Hosting Costs: How to Monitor Them When Scaling Your Infrastructure
While there are plenty of reasons to move your software solutions to the cloud (digital transformation being just one of them), an important aspect that can often prove challenging to customers is the industry’s apparent…
Server Performance Optimisation Made Easy
Efficiency vs. ValueDid you know that in software development, a budget spent on server performance optimisation is an investment that will definitely pay off?In the endless pursuit of new features, we often forget to simply…