Hello, world
A first post — what this blog is for and what to expect.
Welcome. This is the first post on a small corner of the internet for notes on building software tooling for datacenter network engineering — the kind of writing I’d want to read myself: short, specific, and rooted in something that actually shipped. You will find I love to use em dashs.
What you can expect
- Postmortems and patterns from real systems, not toy examples.
- AWS-flavored cloud architecture, with an eye toward cost and operability.
- Deep dives on the tools I rely on day-to-day, and the ones I’m trying out.
A quick stack tour
This site itself is built with Astro and deployed to AWS via CDK. Posts are MDX files in the repo, which means I can drop a chart or interactive demo directly into prose:
// astro.config.mjs
export default defineConfig({
site: "https://johnewillmanv.com",
integrations: [mdx(), sitemap()],
});If you find something useful, broken, or wrong — please reach out. More to come.