Photo by Billy Huynh on Unsplash Many years ago, I worked as part of a development team developing and maintaining a large Israeli internet portal called Nana. Development was not where it is today, most of the mechanisms that are widely available for developers today, were written from scratch by our team, but the work…
The pursuit for privacy and security is a major issue debated by many people all over the world today. Once more of a corporate issue, it is now a topic of many conversations, on the personal level and on the corporate level, all over the globe. My understanding of these two very important issues is…
When it comes to making decisions about IT solutions, there are certain considerations that go beyond costs and expertise and you have to be mindful of them all. As an SME (Small and Mid-size Enterprise) owner you want to keep your growth efforts focused and not deal with the enormous overhead of managing an…
Amazon Lightsail is a powerful hosting solution for web applications and for websites. However, before you try it with your website, there are a few things you should consider. Managed vs. Unmanaged A simple shared web hosting solution is a managed hosting solution meaning someone else has taken the server configuration & maintenance tasks upon…
I have been programming web applications for almost two decades and I can tell you building a website was a lot of work back then. Although web development has changed significantly in the past 10 years, getting into a development project in order to build yourself a website should be the last thing you should…
In 2016 I published an article on LinkedIn after realizing websites are built for very specific reasons. As I wrote then, website may take a lot of energy (time, money) and it is easy to forget in the building process, what they come to serve. I hope this article of mine can help you stay…
Ever since I remember myself, I was that guy, the one people come to ask for help with technological issues. I tried moving away from being that tech guy a few times in my life but I seem to find myself back in that place eventually. So why fight it if that what people find in…