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, it's dynamic; dynamic meaning that you don't build relationships between each data packet, as in traditional SQL servers. This means that each data packet can contain any variety of structures that you save to Phant.

You can find yourself a very cheap...