5 things that I enjoyed learning about in CST 438:
1. I think my favorite thing we covered was system testing with selenium. Selenium is a powerful tool that lets you programmatically drive a web browser. I want to explore using it with other tools like beautiful soup for web scraping.
2. Deploying our app to AWS was a fun experience. I’ve used AWS before, but it was good to walk through the steps again. I should probably go back and review some of my past work with terraform to set up AWS instances with prewritten scripts.
3. Using separate microservices for the backend of our app was a good exercise. I have worked with microservice architecture before, but not as much on the development side.
4. Using the built in project tracking in github was a new experience. I have used other agile tracking systems in the past, but it was nice to have the built in features that github includes.
5. Using vite with react was a useful tool to add to my kit. I’m not much of a frontend developer, but it is good to have an easy way to prototype designs if I am ever building a webapp.
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