After over a decade working AWS, during my “sabbatical” I’ve had the opportunity to go multi-cloud and play around with Azure and Google Cloud. I’ve built 3 websites in recent months - all containerized, stateless and static. These are simple workloads, and due to the use of containers (and their stateless nature), they are highly portable. This has provided me the opportunity to do some comparisons. I’m cheap and so I optimized their deployment for cost trying to make them as cheap as possible (I’ve succeeded).

Two months ago, I decided I wanted to build a couple of websites. For one of the websites, I wanted a place where I could publish my articles. That particularly website is called circleinaspiral.com. Maybe it is where you are reading this articile right now. This particular article is not about circleinaspiral.com. Instead, it is for a website to be used to document a recent house remodel my wife and I undertook during 2023.

Nothing to do whatsoever with the content — just a nice photo to bring joy to your day When evaluating candidates [¹], I urge you to look beyond the skills of the candidate. Of course, skills are an important consideration, but know that skills can be learned and the skills you need today may not be the skills you need tomorrow. Ask yourself, are you looking to release a product?