The more we put our resources on cloud platforms, the more we need to communicate with those resources. One method that provides more control than the standard CLI tools available without requiring a huge investment of learning or time is to use the SDKs for Go or another programming language. To get started, let's consider a few methods for creating clients and authenticating with AWS and GCP.

Containers are everywhere, these days. But even the simple task of running a Docker container can become an overly complex task, with so many competing systems available. It doesn't have to be that way. Your Go app shares the same DNA as Docker and Kubernetes, and running a container can be simple and effortless.

It's the end of an era for one of the pioneers in cloud platforms. As Heroku sunsets its free tier, the options for app platforms are as diverse as ever.

Hugo offers two options for organizing page resources like images. We can use absolute paths to a root-level folder, or use relative paths to images in page subdirectories. Let's walk through the basics of each approach.

Networking computers is hard. Networking computers using containers, as when running Docker, can be harder still. What are some good options to consider when doing local development.

New year, new goals. So many people changing jobs and looking for a start in software. How to make sense of an industry that is so dynamic?

'The right tool for the job' is a saying that works well in woodworking as it does in software. It doesn't mean our toolbox should be infinite, or that one should collect every tool or technique available. But when we encounter tasks we've done be­fore, it's great to know the best path through them. Enter Buffalo...

Docker is an open-source tool that has thrived. Docker is also an enterprise that is struggling to find its footing. Consider it another example of how difficult it is to make open-software work.

A great deal of effort is required to make something feel effortless. This is true in writing and the arts, as well as the field of computer technology, where we refer to user experience. What sounds simple in one telling can be infinitely complex in practice.

Many words have been written about headless Drupal, that is adding a separate system to manage the front-end user experience. This can be a complicated affair! But it can be managed and made simpler by leveraging tools that are familiar to you. Consider Angular.

It's the 20th birthday for both Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, and Drupal, the open-source web platform. Both of these tools are free -- as in no charge to use. But they also advance the ethos of free speech, which underpins so much of the web.

Drupal offers out-of-the-box UI tools to control how users view content across a web site. One exception is addresses, which are ubiquitous in e-commerce. So why the exception, and how can we better control it?

Hugo themes are easy to find and easy to implement on a site. But what if we want to build our own? This would be ideal if you're bringing your own templates or styles from an existing project. Or maybe you have a clear design in mind already. So let's explore the process, step-by-step.

Static site generators are proving to be valuable tools to extend or augment a content-management system like Drupal. I've been experimenting with Hugo to understand how adding it to a Drupal site can bring some advantages. My conclusion is that it's totally doable.

Static site generators have been a hot topic in web developer circles for a while now. Just like any other software tool, static site generators can offer a great solution to specific problem. But what is that problem, and who needs to solve it?

Cloud providers are clamoring for our business, and they each make convincing arguments about new technology. The goal of developers and engineers, however, is to be comfortable building an application once, whatever the cloud platform. HashiCorp is a company that saw this reality a long time ago.

Security is a chief concern for any web application, whether or not it's handling sensitive user information. For a small team, it can feel impossible to stay on top of the threats and develop strategies that respond to them. Managed platforms like Heroku and Pantheon offer to solve these problems for us -- and we can learn from them.

Let's use cloud functions to perform some file conversions for us. Why cloud functions? They allow us to specify a unique runtime environment and tap into other cloud services we're already using.

Software is designed to be updated. Often. The question is how to do that: update in place, or rebuild and replace?

On a desktop computer, you would never expect to rebuild it, when you can simply run an update package on the current platform. Software running on a server asks us to think differently. Why?

The release of Angular caused quite a stir back in the fall of 2016. Like many, I jumped in and started learning the new framework, and then ... returned to my day job. In just two short years, Angular jumped from version 2 to version 7! So where to begin tackling the upgrade path?

Event listeners are a major programming leap and a boon to development in Drupal 8. If you haven't explored them yet, events and events listeners are a gift from the Symfony framework that underpins D8. Let's explore some events that come with Drupal and how to create our own.

Any foray into Drupal frontend development runs headlong into the term 'render array' at some point. Maybe it's self-explanatory to someone, somewhere, but not to most mortals like me. Let's try to demystify this black box and understand how to reliably get the proper HTML on the page.

Everything I see about Angular 2 has a footnote attached to it. Well two really. First, it's not complete, and nobody's sure what it'll look like until it's done. Two, it often appears alongside the word Typescript. What's that?

Well it's a version of Javacript that provides 'type', i.e. this …

We like our networks fast and always on. Streaming video, instant pictures, audio, games, you name it. It seems almost effortless to consume it all.

The reality behind things that are so fine, so easy, is that it takes an awful lot of work to get all the details just right. I know how true that is …

Getting hands on data is crucial to developing any new web project. Incomplete data sets, small data sets, even bad data sets are preferable to nothing. Without mock data like this, we cannot answer many important questions. How will data be structured? What sort of queries will be required? What …

Developing on dedicated servers is a real luxury, especially after years of doing it with localhost on my own computer. No need to share computer resources. No need to worry that localhost settings are different from a real server. It is a real server! Even better, I can fill it up with as many dev …

New projects are all about excitement and energy. Excitement for a new team, a fresh set of challenges, and new opportunities.

Recently I jumped in for the tail end of a new project, so I was pretty stoked to see what great things my smart colleagues had put together, learn from them and contribute …

Great fear surrounds Angular 2. More than one person, with eyebrows raised, has told me, "You know it's totally rewritten from Angular 1." Well, plenty of code has been rewritten without end-users even noticing. In this case, users will notice. And that's a good thing. First good thing is the …