Cloud Computing
Definition.
Cloud Computing: The delivery of computing services over the Internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
In More Detail
The practical shift is from buying capacity in advance to renting it as needed. That matters most for products with uneven load: you are not paying year-round for the hardware needed at your busiest hour.
For the projects I build, this usually means a Next.js frontend on Vercel and a Django backend on a managed platform with a managed PostgreSQL instance. The reason is not cost so much as operations — automated backups, zero-downtime deploys, and TLS renewal are things I would otherwise have to run myself, and getting any of them wrong is worse than the hosting bill.
In Practice
Every production project I ship deploys to a cloud provider (AWS/GCP or Vercel for Next.js frontends) rather than a single physical server — it's what makes zero-downtime deploys and horizontal scaling realistic for a small team or solo founder.
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If you are working out whether this applies to your own project, the case studies show where it turned up in real builds, services lists what I take on, and pricing gives the starting figures.
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