The text discusses how to send an SMS with Node.js using Twilio, a cloud communication platform. To achieve this, you need to sign up for a free trial account, purchase an SMS-enabled phone number, and install the twilio-node library. The code requires only ten lines of code to send an SMS, which uses environment variables for safekeeping of sensitive credentials. The process involves creating a Twilio REST client using the installed library, sending an HTTP POST request to the /Messages resource in the Twilio API, and logging the message SID received from the response.