Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years

A developer shares five years of blogging lessons, covering traffic growth, infrastructure choices (moving from WordPress to Jekyll and then to S3+CloudFront), and writing strategies. Key takeaways include: quality over quantity drives disproportionate traffic, post titles matter enormously, static site hosting on S3/CloudFront is far more reliable than self-hosted servers, and blogging reinforces professional visibility and recruiting. Also covers practical tips on RSS, OpenGraph metadata, email newsletters via Mailchimp, and the mutual reinforcement between blog and Twitter/GitHub presence.