We just pushed out a minor refresh to SaffronSierra. As a user you won’t notice much that’s different (hopefully). This refresh brings with it a couple of changes. One that users will see, and another they won’t. Let me talk about both briefly:

• Nightly Running Reminders – SaffronSierra is a pay-as-you-go service. You pay for every hour your service is running. SaffronSierra makes it really simple (you click a button) to start a SaffronMemoryBase system. It’s so simple in fact that it’s easy to start it and forget that it’s running. Now SaffronSierra will send email reminders every night to users who’s SaffronSierra service is running. If you actually want your service to be running 24/7 (which is totally fine by the way), and you don’t want to receive these reminders you can login and update your user profile.
• New Amazon AWS Java Libraries – SaffronSierra uses Amazon AWS as it’s backend infrastructure for running services. The java library we originally used to integrate with AWS has been deprecated. So, we ported SaffronSierra over to the new java library. This actually was a pretty painless process. There are some differences between the two libraries, but as I told someone recently “it’s different in the ways that it needs to be different.” Hopefully you won’t notice this change and things just keep humming along.

We’ll keep the updates coming, stay tuned.