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I host my hugo sites on Azure Blob Storage for few cents (literally) per month.
I would guess the companies with subcontractors/branches in China has been assuming everything they submit there is no-longer a trade secret or secret at all.
Mobile: Xamarin
CI/CD: Azure Devops, AKS
Reason for choosing it: 15+ years of experience with C#, Vue is easy to learn, Xamarin is also C# for both Android and iOS
Can't wait for the 2nd and 3rd posts...
For the mobile apps - Xamarin. You will still write C#, just use a different way of thinking.
Having the same technology stack in web and mobile will allow you to reuse skills one day when you build a team.
I've recently saw and article from a guy who did memory dump of Skype and found his SSH keys inside. This is getting out of control...
Relying on blockchain technology is needed only when everyone should trust on something, but once you have the peer to peer connection this is no longer needed.
I don't want to think about it, but probably it is exploited by the press to increase sales...
Now the next step is to implement file transfer and self-hosted web server with social network app and you have decentralized internet :)
And then we can think about adding more technologies inside...
My point is that on company/organization level the EU companies are more ... how to say it... conservative and full of bureaucracy that their US counterparts. They pay for an employee and it they don't see him at his desk - there is a problem. The "communication" habits are also quite different IMHO.
Europe does not have so many timezones, but if you decided to go farther east, that's different issue.
I don't think everyone in the team should be involved in the architectural decisions of your product. That's why there are different type of seniority and roles in the team. Then you just have to "manage" the execution.
Last time I saw someone working from home for 1 day, his manager sent him 2 screens email, how it should be an exception, not a practice, etc.
There was a guy (can't remember his name) who said that US is the only place where you can put US guys, Mexican, Chinese and ... (whoever) and make them work together. In Europe this is not the case, probably because of historical reasons and as a result of the last 30 years of immigration policy (especially the french-speaking countries).
My other theory is that Europe is left behind US in the technical area. If something is top-notch in USA, it will "come" in mainland Europe in 10 or more years. For e.g. now the MBA is hot trend.
Disclaimer: I've been working remotely for the last 4 years.