I’ve been meaning to build this site for about three years. Kept telling myself I’d do it once I had something worth writing about, which is a decent excuse for never starting anything.
I work as a Customer Reliability Engineer. Most of what fills my week doesn’t fit neatly into a LinkedIn post: routing anomalies that took four people and a packet capture to explain, incident calls at odd hours, the slow work of convincing a customer that a fix is actually done and not just quiet for now. None of that has had anywhere to go until now.
What’s going to end up here
Mostly two things, because that’s mostly what I think about:
- Reliability engineering: SLOs, how incident response actually goes versus how it’s supposed to go, post-mortems that were worth writing
- Network security and DDoS defence: attack patterns I find interesting, and the parts of L3/L4/L7 defence that don’t show up in vendor docs
I might also just write about a certification I’m studying for, like I did with the Google GenAI Leader one. We’ll see what sticks.
The build
Astro, deployed on Cloudflare Pages, DNS on Cloudflare too since the domain’s already there. Static site, no database, no reason to overcomplicate a personal blog.
Framework: Astro
Hosting: Cloudflare Pages
Domain: najeeb.ukNothing clever. It just needed to exist.