Essential tool services for Internet workers

Essential tool services for Internet workers

The efficiency gap between people is often reflected in the choice of tools, and the difference in experience. Tools need to choose an efficient tool that can improve efficiency many times. Experience growth takes a long time to accumulate, and there is a need for continuous access to quality leading information. Here are some recommendations for tools and information channels.

1. Multi-purpose Personal VPS

For well-known reasons, almost every person in the country who is engaged in internet technology needs a VPS. Today, VPS is not as expensive as it was 5 years ago, and VPS use is not used as an individual website or personal blog.

Can be used to make your own private Git repository, although there is now a private code hosting service like GitHub but the minimum cost for GitHub is $7, and for a single-purpose personal service is a little expensive. It's a very easy thing to put a private Git repository on a VPS, just a single line of command, not mentioned here.

Used to do personal private VPN service. You might ask why not choose the VPN service for those threads? In fact, the truth is simple, network services have a feature, like the road, there is a great capacity elasticity. There are many users of shared services, and the service can continue to be provided, but the quality will drop very badly. So it's good to put on a personal VPS. Such technology is exactly the same as the service that needs to find relatively unpopular providers. can choose Digitalocean (use more and more people, quality relative decline –-), or Host1plus, about Host1plus and host1plus advantages, please see my other article.

Used to do data transfer and backup. Most people now have at least one computer in their home and office space, and some privacy data can be backed up by a private VPS.

The server side of personal websites and blogs or apps. A small VPS is fully sufficient to install the database and build a large portion of the network service. You can put your own Weekend project or experiment project on it, maybe this is the prototype of the next Big Mac Internet company.

2. Data analysis and sharing tools

Data analysis is almost the basic skill required for all positions. Development engineers need to constantly compare performance data, and operations engineers need to continuously record and analyze operational data, and product managers need to constantly analyze data such as A/B testing and industry data. This has actually a lot of tools to choose from. Excel is almost an essential tool for data analysis, but Google Sheet is easier to use and share. You can choose according to your preferences. If you have a blog or run a small service website, Google Analystic is an essential tool, although many people are using GA, but the data treasures in it are rarely or deeply dug. For the use of GA, I will write a separate article.

3. Information Channel: RSS Reader

A few years ago, Google Reader was the perfect choice for RSS feed readers, but the Big Mac had cut the reader business a few years ago. Now the most widely used is Feedly, it is completely free, there is a Web version and mobile version, although the mobile version is not commonly used, because the RSS subscription information is more than the depth of the long text, more suitable for the desktop computer processing.

4. Information channel: Vibe, Social Information circle

A few years ago, I would probably recommend subscribing to a personal blog from a lot of tech people, but nowadays information production and consumption is becoming more and more fast, and many technical people are no longer blogging, they are turning to faster 140-word vibe. So, we need to focus on the social accounts of the experts in the field, including his wave vibe, the public number. What if we find a domain expert? In fact, the method is very simple: clues. Find a well-known expert and then see who he is interested in and what other people are forwarded, so you'll find more and more domain expert accounts. While micro-blogging is fragmented, you can gain access to the most advanced technologies and concepts in the field. Most of the time, the answer to the problem optimization solution is a keyword. A deeper level of information can be obtained by searching for keywords.

Essential tool services for Internet workers