Show HN: Cloud Native Web Development – I self-published my first book

by mikenikleson 6/28/2020, 6:26 PMwith 2 comments

Hi,

I spent the last three months writing a 200+ page book, with 19 corresponding pull requests.

https://www.mikenikles.com/cloud-native-web-development

It's a hands-on guidebook on how to develop a cloud-native web application based on technologies I am familiar with. Svelte, Tailwind CSS, Cypress.io, Gitpod.io, Firebase & Google Cloud at a high-level.

The goal was to walk through the entire end-to-end process, from zero to production! It walks through building a foundation needed to develop on top of. CI / CD, testing, feature toggles, production monitoring, etc.

To write it, I used Google Docs and had two git repositories: one to experiment and one that contains the final source code - where the git commit history looks like I never struggled :-).

AMA on self-publishing or the book's topic itself!

by quickthrower2on 6/29/2020, 11:00 AM

Well done! It’s not easy writing a book and it really tests your knowledge more than just doing the thing. I say that having written a crappy 20 pager!

Anyway was that 3months full time or part time?

What are your marketing plans? I hope it pays off financially too. I think you are on trend so there would be demand.