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Discover the journey of switching platforms, from the perks of serverless to the love-hate with Vercel. Uncover Cloudflare's potential as a dynamic alternative and the excitement of mastering diverse tools for smarter development choices.

My process, decisions, and lessons learnt from replatforming my first application into the cloud. With considerations such as time to market, system observability and the managing of technical debt, this post covers a few areas where the path of least resistance can be the right, and sometimes wrong decision.

With Heroku making the news recently about removing their free-tier plan, I thought it would be interesting to look into the Platform as a service space. Much to my surprise, it was a lot easier than I anticipated.

A place to write custom apps on the network, block ads, run sponsorblock for my Chromecast devices, store a plex library and use it as local network storage. Find out how I've harnessed the power of Docker and a Raspberry Pi 3B+ to enjoy all the flexibility in a tiny, power-efficient, quiet package.

My first conference that I was able to attend. There were talks to attend, companies to be learnt about, merchandise to be collected and new connections to be made. In this post I summarise my experience, try to capture everything I've learnt, and what I would do differently next time.

In my work I had to deploy an R Shiny application. Familiar with more traditional programming languages I thought adapting to R-Shiny would be a smooth transition, especially as I would not have much involvement with it. However, the further we got in the project the more obvious its flaws became.