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Working on our team project for the software engineering course, the question of deploying the backend to connect it to the front end came up. That's when our coach, Ibrahim, suggested that I learn about Docker. In summary, Docker solves the "it works on my machine" problem by packaging applications and their dependencies into standardized containers that run consistently across different environments. These containers isolate software from its surroundings, ensuring that applications work uniformly regardless of where they're deployed—from a developer's laptop to testing, staging, and production servers. This breakdown was super simple to understand.

LinkedIn was how I was able to land my second software engineering role ...And skipped the technical interview. I've got 4,000 followers on there and landed more clients than I can count. So, on Tuesday I'm going to sit down and review ALL your LinkedIn profiles Tailored feedback, in your DMs Link your LinkedIn profile under this post!!

It's been a while, so I thought I would update you guys on what I've been doing. In my last post, I spoke about how I was doing a Udemy course to learn Nest.js. I found it beneficial as I was able to further reinforce my understanding of how the back end works. From my research, I've found that software architecture will become more important in the future. Based on that, I decided to spend some time architecting the back end for my Clippers project and the group project we're working on. Both of them are subject to change. Any feedback would be great.

I started researching Nest JS (not Next JS), due to the suggestion made by nkaramo Ebrima, these last two weeks, and tbh I have been impressed by this framework. It's a framework built on NodeJS, that comes with Express middleware built in and Typescript compatibility out of the box. What I personally like about it is its consistent architecture, which means all developers using Nest JS would be familiar with it, allowing for easy collaboration. There is a bit of a learning curve since it mainly works with object oriented programming, decorators, and dependency injections. So I decided to learn from a Udemy course, that I am halfway through, which has been really useful to understand some of the new concepts. For anyone interested, the instructor for this course is elite. https://www.udemy.com/course/nestjs-the-complete-developers-guide/