As part of my effort to find an opportunity outside of education, I am working on building my link app first as a php app that leverages DynamoDB, and then in a later version uses Lambda. So, I'm trying to learn Node.js with this course from Udemy:  Learn and Understand Node.js.  One thing I really like about this course is that the instructor takes time to explain how and why Javascript works the way it does, which can be a bit confusing coming from a PHP background. I have rarely used Javascript for more than field validation, so to see it as a full blown programming language with some really funky function syntax can be a bit intimidating. The author. Anthony Alicea, does a very thorough yet approachable dive into how things work. I highly recommend it. So far, not much to show for myself beyond a hello world script and some odd ports running on my workstation, but it looks exciting. I can't wait to start putting the pieces together!