When I initially set out to build a website, I wanted it ranked #1 when you searched my name on Google. I remember seeing other students like Kevin Frans(MIT/OpenAI) and Gautam Mittal(Berkeley/Stripe) having their websites highly ranked on Google and took inspiration from that to do the same. I also wanted to automate a lot of mundane tasks to ensure that this web server is highly scalable in the event I get a lot of traffic, highly available to prevent any user from having downtime while accessing the many elements to my server, and portable if I need to move over to a different cloud service provider.
