Let’s be honest: the tech landscape changes faster than your favorite IDE releases a new update. One day you’re the expert in REST APIs, the next day everyone’s talking about GraphQL, microservices, and quantum computing (okay, maybe not that last one yet). If you’re not learning continuously, you’re essentially watching your market value depreciate like a three-year-old smartphone. The good news? You don’t have to become a learning machine to stay relevant....

We’ve been sold a dream. For the past decade, the tech industry has whispered—then shouted—that cloud is the future, the only way, the inevitable destination for every workload known to humankind. “Move to the cloud!” they said. “It’s cheaper!” they promised. “Infinite scalability!” they proclaimed. But here’s the thing nobody wants to say out loud at tech conferences: sometimes, they’re wrong. Dead wrong. And that’s not pessimism talking; that’s pragmatism. The cloud isn’t bad—far from it....

If you’ve ever looked at QGIS and thought, “This is great, but it would be perfect if it just did X,” congratulations—you’ve just identified your next plugin project. QGIS plugins are the gateway drug to geospatial development, and unlike building entire GIS applications from scratch, creating a plugin is surprisingly accessible. Let’s dive into the surprisingly civilized world of QGIS plugin development. Why Build a QGIS Plugin? Before we get our hands dirty, let’s be honest about what we’re doing here....

There’s a moment every founder experiences. You’ve just closed your first funding round, your product is gaining traction, and someone in a Slack channel mentions that you should “probably start thinking about Kubernetes.” Your CTO nods thoughtfully. Everyone starts Googling Kubernetes tutorials at midnight. By the next morning, you’ve convinced yourself that Kubernetes is an inevitable part of your journey to billion-dollar unicorn status. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: you’re probably making a terrible mistake....

The Serverless Dream (And Why It’s Actually Real) Remember when deploying an application meant renting a physical server, worrying about disk space, and praying that your infrastructure wouldn’t combust at 3 AM on a Sunday? Yeah, those days are mercifully behind us. Serverless computing—particularly AWS Lambda—has transformed how we think about building and deploying applications. But here’s the thing that nobody tells you at the conference talks: serverless doesn’t mean “no servers....