Cosmic dust clouds

In the vastness of space, Nebulas are something quite interesting to take a sight on... They’re cosmic dust clouds - chaotic and scattered - that somehow manage to birth stars.

When I was reading about it just before, I was like: what?! ... gas and dust colliding, sticking, and growing into something massive as a Sun?! No way!

Now, give it a bit more thought you'll figure there’s a surprising parallel between these scientific wonders and software development. 🙃

When building software, the process can feel like trying to organize a nebula of ideas, tools, and data - that is fragmented and scattered across the minds of your product managers, stakeholders or Startup founder.

Oh boy, how hard (or fun) is it to organize all that huh?

Repositories, architectures, frameworks, and servers, cloud services ? How about that?

Yet, with the right energy and alignment (the gravitational force of the engineer), these parts begin to merge (no, is not git, yet).

Much like how gravity pulls cosmic dust together, teamwork, architecture, and good design practices form the core of a project. It’s messy, iterative, and in my experience, always chaotic, but over time, the random collisions create something solid. A product might take shape! 😃

Now bringing this to Cloud computing we can think of this "cosmic dust" being resources or services: compute, storage, and networking. On their own, these things are isolated and have no form - they do nothing. But developers, (architects, wow) they bring them together to build applications, platforms, and services that users can make use of (or complain about).

The overall magic of this whole thing is a - often slow - process. From scattered fragments to connected systems; from vague discussions to a designed product or architecture.

Now, just like a nebula has the potential to spark a star; each piece of work YOU do as a developer - every script, every talk/opinion, every API, every microservice if you will; all of that adds up to something bigger.

So, lets keeping adding, creating, and keep sharing more and more. Overtime a single idea can grow into a galaxy! I had a bit of a sigh after this bit. 😅

Bringing up to this blog, The Cloudeveloper ... I'll think of it as a nebula in its infancy, gathering its first particles. With every post, idea, and person who finds value here, I hope it grows denser, brighter, and more impactful.

I read that blogging as a developer not just make me better, but is a way to help others. This is something people helped me figure I like: helping others.

And this nebula don't have to end there, in this blog, each interaction, every piece of content that inspires or educates, helps connect people who share our passion. Let's grow together then - just like the universe does. Let’s get clumping.

Read more about Nebulas on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula

Read the article about Stars and Nebulas here: https://hubblesite.org/science/stars-and-nebulas

Initially this was a Lorem ipsum post titled "the nebula lorem" which was just a copy of the Wikipedia; it was for me to check how Ghost looks, but after reading it (past several months after the publish), I decided to revamp it and let it be a real first post - updating also the published date.

Cheers.