While I admit there is a lot of technical meat to this article, the idea is for potential developers to gradually work through it by researching the highlighted concepts themselves. I didn’t see the benefit of regurgitating masses of information that are already well-described by other freely-available resources, so opted for a high-level overview of each.

I didn’t write this post with the expectation that anyone applying this advice will blaze through it; think of it as a learning guide.