I’ve been building infrastructure with code and cloud applications since 2016. Over the years, some of what I have built has been deployed to servers, some of it has been deployed to container platforms, and some has been deployed to function-as-a-service platforms. The way I and my team build has evolved a lot and I anticipate that it will continue to evolve over the next few years. This is an (opinionated) exploration of how we got here and where I believe we’re going.

Subscription warning: In this post I take seriously people and concepts some of you might find ridiculous, including manosphere bloggers of the red pill and purple pill variety. Some of you may wonder why I would bother, some may find it redundant; it’s very much about traditional ideas of male and female, the clutching onto and slippage thereof. But others of you I’m pretty sure will be interested. Right or wrong these ideas are foundational and when they shift and/or crack it affects the ground we walk on.

After spending as much time on both sides of a bar as I have, I’d just come to accept it as a fact that the default shots a bartender asks people they dub as tolerable, even good clientele to do was either whiskey or tequila. That’s why it came as a surprise in 2019 when I had a bartender ask if I wanted to do a shot of Fernet-Branca the night after another bartender in a different part of town had asked the same thing.

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring three verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “On Silence (or, Speak Again)” by . A new essay is coming soon.*Submissions are currently paused for First Person Singular.

Angela Schanelec (b. 1962) is a filmmaker born in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Since the early ’90s, she has written, directed, and edited critically acclaimed feature films such as Places in Cities (1998), Passing Summer (2001), Marseille (2004), The Dreamed Path (2016), and I Was at Home, But… (2019). Her latest film, Music (2023), had its premiere on February 21st, 2023, as part of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.