I love these kinds of retrospectives as they give insight into the learning process. We tend to focus on the acquisition of specialized knowledge but there is o

I love these kinds of retrospectives as they give insight into the learning process. We tend to focus on the acquisition of specialized knowledge but there is often a body of shared knowledge, the context you might call it, that we pick up indirectly. You have to read between the lines but what we have in this post is a Data Scientist skilled in the Python programming language struggling to acquire the shared knowledge required to build and deploy Web Apps. One toolchain (Python), one framework (Django), one backend architecture (12-Factor Apps) but the narrative surrounding URLs, HTTP, DNS, TLS, REST APIs, JSON, CORS, and www-forms is missing. We seem to be missing a simple way to learn the shared knowledge needed to build apps in a world reshaped by Web, Mobile, and Cloud technologies.