## 👋🏻 Hi, I'm Paul Swail.
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This site is a collection of my notes and thinking on areas I'm interested in. I work as an indie Fractional CTO / Cloud Consultant, so most of the topics I cover here will be generally related to building software.
## 👇🏻 Start here
I'm still working on improving the navigation and interlinking of notes, but here are a few notes of note you may wish to explore:
- [[Things I believe about software]]
- [[Software testing MOC]]
- [[Serverless MOC|All about serverless]]
- Notes on individual [[AWS Services]]
- Search my #OpenQuestions of areas where I want to learn more (either to find a better solution to a problem or a better way of explaining or thinking about a topic)
## ✍🏻 About these notes
These notes are written mainly for me, so some may appear incomplete or difficult to understand without more context. If you find something of interest and would like to discuss further, send me a message on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/paulswail).
A few conventions you might notice:
- Note titles containing "MOC" are Maps of Content index-style notes which are effectively a hub of links and high-level descriptions of a content area.
## 🌐 Find me online
- [ServerlessFirst.com](https://serverlessfirst.com) — My cloud consulting site where I write, teach and offer [consulting services](https://serverlessfirst.com/services/) to folks building with serverless technologies.
- Follow me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/paulswail)
- Connect with me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulswail/)
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I send out email letters on building serverless solutions, usually with longer-form articles produced from my notes.
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