Hello, cloudbytes

I’ve been meaning to put a small site together for a while. This is it.

The plan is simple: somewhere to think out loud about the work I’m doing on the Salesforce platform, the AI layered on top of it, and the bits of web and infrastructure I keep running into. Less of a product, more of a notebook.

Why “cloudbytes”

I picked up the domain on a whim, but the name turned out to fit the work pretty well. Most of what I do lives between two clouds — Salesforce on one side, every other service we glue to it on the other — and the interesting moments are usually in the bytes that move between them.

What you’ll find here

• Salesforce platform notes. Apex patterns, Flow tradeoffs, real things I’ve shipped and what they cost.
• AI in the CRM. What grounded prompts and agents actually look like once they meet a real org’s data.
• Occasional infrastructure posts. When a network or DNS thing eats my afternoon, I’d rather get a blog post out of it.

I’d rather post short and often than long and rarely. Expect 400–800 words, code where it earns its keep, and opinions when I have them.

How it’s built

For the curious: this site is Astro + Tailwind CSS, deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Posts are plain Markdown files in a Git repo — which means I can write a new one from anywhere, including from inside an AI coding session.

# Adding a new post is literally:
echo "..." > src/content/blog/the-next-thing.md
git push

That’s the whole CMS.

— Andrew