Thanks, but that's not really what I'm asking about here. I know about the more traditional way to do things, and that's what I do daily. What I'm asking about

Thanks, but that's not really what I'm asking about here. I know about the more traditional way to do things, and that's what I do daily. What I'm asking about is how the "new stuff" works and how to learn about it. It's sometimes hard to know the tradeoffs involved with only an external point of view, especially when most of the discussion is heavily polarized like here.