https://stoicknight.com/about/Recent content in Character on Stoic KnightHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://stoicknight.com/posts/building-sk-infra/Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000Stoic Knighthttps://stoicknight.com/posts/building-sk-infra/<blockquote> <p>&ldquo;The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.&rdquo; — Marcus Aurelius</p> </blockquote> <p>Welcome to my first post.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m an IT professional by trade. I&rsquo;ve deployed infrastructure on more platforms than I care to list, and I&rsquo;ve broken things on every single one of them. That is the fundamental nature of the work—you learn by building, and you build by breaking. Tech is full of compromises, and this blog isn&rsquo;t a dry documentation page; it&rsquo;s a narrative about navigating those tradeoffs.</p> <p>The persona of Stoic Knight is a mashup of my love for fantasy, RPGs, and Stoicism. While the knight part is mostly just more fun than calling myself an engineer, the discipline is entirely real. I try to practice it daily. My core principles—honesty, accountability, and resilience—are what keep me iterating when things don&rsquo;t work the first time. Or the fifth.</p>