The title says it all. This is very fragmented and there are several options to fulfill the task. Knowing the tradeoffs can be handy.

Interesting musing on the heuristics we use when solving problems. There are good advices in there to make progress and become a better developer.

Avoiding boolean parameters in library APIs should be a well known advice by now. Still they should probably be avoided when modeling domain types as well.

Definitely a good post. No you don't have to go all in with cloud providers and signing with your blood. It's often much more expensive for little gain but much more complexity and vendor lock in.