Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Git? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Git website: “Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.” It … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Xamarin? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Xamarin website: “Xamarin is a free, cross-platform, open-source app platform for building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#. .NET is a developer platform made up of … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Docker? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Docker website: “Docker takes away repetitive, mundane configuration tasks and is used throughout the development lifecycle for fast, easy and portable application development – desktop and cloud. Docker’s … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Yarn? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Yarn website: “Yarn is a package manager that doubles down as project manager. Whether you work on one-shot projects or large monorepos, as a hobbyist or an enterprise … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Deno? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Deno website: “Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.” Now that you know about what … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Puppet? Let’s have a look at the definition from this Puppet website (highlights be me): “Puppet is an open source software configuration management and deployment tool. It’s most commonly used on Linux and Windows to pull the strings on … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Ansible? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Ansible website: “Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes all the tools needed to implement enterprise-wide … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Kubernetes? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Kubernetes website: “Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Terraform? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Terraform website: “Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Pulumi? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Pulumi website: “Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code tool for creating, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure. Pulumi works with traditional infrastructure like VMs, networks, and databases, … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Chef? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Chef website: “Automation Software for Continuous Delivery of Secure Applications and Infrastructure. Chef is an automation company. Ever since it was founded in 2008, we have been bringing … Read more
What are the most important skills you can have as a freelance developer? You may ask this question because you need to know where to focus and concentrate your learning effort. While I focus on the most important technologies in this article, I believe that the ultimate driver of your success is your knowledge of … Read more