If I knew then what I know now
summary
Covers why the cloud is programmable rather than just renting VMs, argues for learning JavaScript plus one backend language, and shows concrete wins: the New York Times OCR problem runs in a weekend for $300 weekend OCR job by spinning machines in AWS, Netflix chooses SSDs because renting transfers failure risk, and 25% Linux on Azure proves cross‑platform realities. Demos include complete emulators and heavy apps compiled to JS, and recommends Azure Functions / AWS Lambda (serverless) to avoid yak‑shaving parallelism and ops.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 18:47moving the netflix cloud from spinning rust to ssds
- 29:20turn attention over to the browser
- 30:30this is the first page of the world wide web
- 43:08show recovered files
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