The Thorn Tech Blog
Video: Creating Serverless apps for NASA in GovCloud
In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup on September 19, 2019, Chris Shenton, CTO at V! Studios, leads a discussion on using serverless at scale to import a large volume of engineering forms at NASA. NASA's Office of Extra Vehicular Activity (space walks) has a...
Video: Intro to AWS Control Tower
In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on August 8, 2019, Thorn Technologies' DevOps Engineer Robert Chen provides an introduction to AWS Control Tower, which recently launched to general availability in June. AWS Control Tower lets you provision multiple AWS...
FTP, FTPS, and SFTP – what are the differences?
Learn more about how FTP, FTPS, and SFTP work, their pros and cons, and when you should use them. FTP, FTPS, SFTP - so many acronyms and letters, so little time to decipher what they all mean. Why should I use SFTP over FTP? Is FTPS secure enough for my data? What’s...
Video: Infrastructure as Code with AWS’ Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on June 20, 2019, Kevin Homan, an experienced PMP in government IT, discusses AWS' Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and how it can help you achieve the best practice of Infrastructure as Code to follow the AWS...
SFTP Gateway is Now Live on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace!
You can now easily and securely transfer files to Azure Blob Storage with SFTP Gateway. We’re proud to announce that SFTP Gateway is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace! SFTP Gateway is a secure-by-default, pre-configured SFTP server that saves uploaded...
Cloud Big Data Case Study – Faster Customer Reporting with a Data Lake and Data Warehouse
Here's how we implemented a combination of a database, data lake, and data warehouse to make customer reporting much faster for our client's SMS marketing platform. This is the fifth article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first four here: Big...
How data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts fit into your cloud storage architecture
Understand the differences between data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts, and how they can meet your cloud data storage and analysis needs. This is the fourth article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first three here: Big Data in the Cloud:...
Continuous Integration with AWS – Two Perspectives (videos)
Watch these two different approaches to building a continuous integration / continuous delivery process Continuous Integration - the process of automatically building and testing your code - is a crucial part of the modern software development process. In the age of...
SFTP Gateway is now live on AWS GovCloud!
Government agencies can now improve their IT operations by using SFTP Gateway to easily and securely transfer files and data to Amazon S3 SFTP Gateway is now live on AWS US GovCloud! Our product allows enterprises of all sizes, and now government agencies, easily and...
SQL vs. NoSQL – what’s the best option for your database needs?
In choosing between SQL vs. NoSQL, you'll need to think about what your data looks like, how you'll query it, and your scalability needs. This is the third article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first two here: Big Data in the Cloud: Why Cloud...