April 2016
Beginner
174 pages
3h 46m
English
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Storing data on the Cloud
At some point of any project, you will, most certainly, want to store collected data somewhere. Usually, this is from collecting sensors, but it could also be debugging data.
The Cloud is a network of servers that can provision virtual machines for any use. Usually, you start from one server, but you always have the ability to increase the size or bundle several virtual machines to act as one endpoint. All this is usually handled by a nice frontend, such as Azure, Amazon AWS, or the Google Cloud platform.
Phant
Phant is a logging tool developed by Sparkfun Electronics and is ready to be used free of charge at https://data.sparkfun.com; it stores data in JSON format. JSON is easy to read and compress, but most importantly, ...