Colophon
Built static. Served from my own infrastructure.
This site is itself a small portfolio piece. It's a static Astro build, deployed through a dry-run-first script to a Caddy file server I run, with a real rollback path. The serving model mirrors the engineering posture the case studies describe.
Why static
The portfolio doesn't need server-side rendering, a production Node runtime, or a dedicated container. The artifact is static HTML and CSS generated by Astro. Keeping the runtime surface small is a reliability decision, not a shortcut.
Why deploys are reversible
The deploy script changes nothing until it's run with --apply; by
default it prints exactly what it would do. Before the web root is replaced, the
current live site is copied to a timestamped archive, so reverting is restoring a
directory rather than improvising under pressure. It's the same instinct that makes
blue-green deployment and rollback discipline worth the effort at scale.