Unsurprisingly, Cloudflare had an outage. We see more and more centralization, which makes the Internet less and less stable.
I’ve seen a rise in developers (within daily.dev articles) recommending to move from managed AWS instances to self-serve VPS (DigitalOcean or otherwise). It took so long for me to understand, but I’m really glad I learned this skill.
The JavaScript design of the Node.js server was not new to me. However, I am shocked by how hard it was to connect the Node.js server to Nginx. Learning how to connect these disparate systems was difficult but satisfying.