Time for a website redesign 🤔?

Hey, what's up guys? It's your boy back at it again with... another post. This time, I'm thinking of updating my website and it's design. I've been hosting my blog on a VM running Ruby on Rails + Apache for a while now, but I feel like it's time to take things up a notch.

The Design

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So, here's what I'm thinking: I want to hire a designer to create a responsive web design that'll make my website really stand out. I'm still on the fence about this idea, though, because I recently signed up for Udemy's subscription and I'm thinking about taking some UI/UX/Design classes to improve my own skills. We'll see. It might be worth it to invest some time learning that and doing it myself rather than outsourcing that. We'll see 🤷‍♂️

Serverless

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I'm really excited about using serverless technology for my personal blog. I've seen the benefits it can offer through my professional work, and I understand the benefits it provides for web development. Automatic scaling and cost-effectiveness is too good to ignore 📈🤑. I'm looking forward to saying goodbye to apache configurations and hello to Github actions, lol.

I'm confident Azure, GCP and AWS can all handle the infrastructure, so I just need to pick the right one for me. I'll figure that out later 🤦‍♂️. I use Azure at work, but I've worked with GCP and AWS for hobby projects before, and I feel like it would be neat to really learn these other platforms. I've really come to enjoy working with a CI/CD workflow. It's a game-changer in terms of deploying. Working with FaaS, unit testing, and CI/CD has been loads of fun. Updating code is so much easier.

In conclusion, I'm excited to revisit my personal website as a project. With some new web design and serverless tech, I think this website will be a better showcase of my work and ideas. It's going to take some work, but I'm up for the challenge. Now I just need to set aside the time 😅

Thanks for joining me on this journey!