Building blocks: cloud as Lego, free models with your own key, git as a standard

What a non-specialist can assemble today, mostly free, with an agent doing the one-time setup; serverless as ephemeral town planner services; knowing what tokens cost.

Decided by. Nobody yet: a candidate for Dinis to read, comment on and decide (keep, rewrite, merge, cut, article first, later, not doing it).

Note. Costs for a newcomer is still a gap.

Where it comes from

Cloudflare as Lego blocks the map of free blocks (newsroom)
Free models, your own key free in October 2026 (newsroom)
Ephemeral town planner services the test for serverless (newsroom)
sgit is a standard, not a server git won because it is a standard (newsroom)
The tokens hook $170 against $1,950 (newsroom)

What it answers in the 2018 book

AWS answered outline, MVP for Gen Z Dev
Serverless answered outline, Concepts
Micro-Services answered outline, Concepts
Git answered outline, Your CV
Docker answered written, MVP for Gen Z Dev

Where it goes

Chapter Serverless, for real, part Build it without a server (drafting); topic Building blocks: cloud, serverless, free models, git and CI.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: The file system is the database: load, extract, transform, save, and keep every intermediate as a file, No server, by design: retire the back end too, and keep only commodity servers, Ship now, and ship your startup serverless: no servers of yours, no database, client side, with privacy by design and control of your agents.

Node idea:lego-blocks in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.