I am Garrett Cornwell

Full-stack web engineer

Learn, Build, Apply

Technology is my passion. I thrive on logically engineering optimal solutions by incorporating cutting edge technology.

Interests

I am currently exploring the application of JAMSTACK. This site is built using JAMSTACK, GatsbyJS for the front-end, and serverless functions using Golang for the back-end. Utilizing JAMSTACK developers can efficiently bring ideas to life. As a developer, I appreciate spending less time with server configurations, security certificates, and other tasks that are mostly eliminated. JAMSTACK yields speedy development, excellent performance, and is quite flexible once you learn the mechanics.

Gatsby is a free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps.

Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency.

Netlify is a San Francisco-based cloud computing company that offers hosting and serverless backend services for web applications and static websites. Its features include continuous deployment from Git across Netlify Edge, the company's global application delivery network infrastructure, serverless form handling, support for AWS Lambda functions, and full integration with Let's Encrypt.

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance.

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Welcome friend, I am glad you are here. I wanted to quickly go over the purpose of this site. I also wanted to let you know what kind of content you will find here. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to communicate with you and hope your experience visiting my humble site will be fruitful. I created this site to practice my favorite craft, web development. I have been taking online courses by…

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