…and What I Don’t — In 2018, Ryan Dahl, founder of the Node runtime environment for JavaScript gave a talk at JSConf —10 Things I Regret About Node.js. It’s not often that you hear from the founder of a technology turned paradigm that he regrets some of the major features of his own invention. If…

The Basics — Docker Files — Docker Commands — Is Docker Dying? — Docker is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that containerizes applications. It was founded in 2008, hosted its first DockerCon in 2014, and now boasts over 12 million registered developers. Stackshare.io has reports that over 8700 companies utilize Docker. These include names as big as Twitter, Spotify, and Pinterest. If…

The EC2 Instance — How EC2 Instances are Created — EC2 Instances and AWS Regions — If you’ve never heard of AWS, I recommend you start with this article that covers the basics of clients, servers, databases, and cloud computing. This article reviews some of the important concepts, but doesn’t provide basic information about the inner workings of the internet or servers. For a quick summary…