hynescorp.com¶

Everyone on the internet and his brother has a two-bit blog, and hynescorp.com is no better–but at least it’s written from scratch.

In this blog series we’ll give an overview of our site stack, including its cloud architecture and our development process. The series is presented as a deep dive for technical review by readers with some background web development or cloud deployment [1], and who may use similar methods in their own work.

Series Contents¶

Preface: Background & Motivation¶

Before embarking on a medium-sized technical project, it’s worth being clear on what problem you’re solving so that you can evaluate the suitability of various solutions.

An example problem: a pervasive need to broadcast your thoughts and opinions to the universe and be gratified at the almost magical immediacy of TCP/IP-assisted creation and the reinforcement mechanisms of the underlying platform that serve up positive feedback loops.

There’s a lot of ways to skin that cat, many of them free and painless. Platforms like medium or substack are happy to host your string collection and serve a few ads on the side. If you prefer a code-oriented workflow for managing content, github pages or other sites that host sphinx projects are fantastic solutions. These all come highly recommended.

What doesn’t come highly recommended to solve that problem is coding an unmonetized blog from scratch [2] and hosting it on your own dollar. That’s only worthwhile if your problem is you want a honeypot server for personal interest, professional development, and embedding URL tracking parameters in your CV’s hyperlinks [3].

With that being said, we’ve designed our stack to address our particular functional requirements [4]:

Pure Cloud-Based
- There’s no room for a server rack in the basement and no hiring manager wants to hear about your collection of old electronics.
Python-Powered Backend
- Python is the main working language of the lead developer at Hynescorp Solutions LTD.
About the same price as Netflix
- If a hobby can’t pay the bills it better be cheap.

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