One of the things that has deterred me from doing much personally in the cloud has been the potential cost.
I joined A Cloud Guru for a year and was able to learn a lot doing some of their courses and using their emulator - thoroughly recommend them btw.
This week I came across LocalStack. This allows you to run an emulation of a lot of the AWS services locally on your machine. I’ve not tried it yet but plan to in the near future.
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Sometimes you come across an article that makes you think. The article, Numbers To Know For Managing Software Teams, made me do that.
This short clip is pretty remarkable. A young woman lost most of her sight due to a brain tumour. All she has left is a small blurry circle in her right eye. With the use of some AR goggles and some very clever tech she was able to read for the first time in years - very moving.
Like lots of people, especially developers, I have a long list of potential business/app ideas that sit around and gather dust. Some of them are just impractical, some I don’t have the skills to do but the biggest constraint is time and the battle with all the other commitments life throws at you.