Are We Ready to Hand Over the Pager? The Mechanical vs. Judgment Gap in AI-Driven SREJul 6, 2026·8 min read·82
The SRE Postmortem: Rebuilding Systems on the Scars of Production FailuresLet’s be honest: when a production system crashes, our natural, raw human instinct is to look for a scapegoat. Imagine a high-traffic payment gateway goes down for 45 minutes on a Friday afternoon. ThJul 16, 2026·6 min read·5
Beyond Certification: The Engineering Principles I Learned While Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer CertificationJun 25, 2026·6 min read·11
How I Built a Zero-Collision, Cryptographically Obfuscated URL Shortener in GoWhen you think of building a URL shortener, the standard textbook approach is simple: generate a random string, check if it exists in the database, insert it if it doesn’t, and retry if there’s a collMay 25, 2026·5 min read·29
Anatomy of a URL Request: How a webpage loads in under a secondYou type https://www.google.com and hit Enter. The page loads in under a second. Simple, right? Behind that single keystroke, at least 12 distinct systems spring into action — involving your browser, May 11, 2026·14 min read·67
I Scored 100% on a Safaricom Codility Test. The Practical Part Was Elasticsearch. Let's Talk About It.I'm a cloud engineer. My 2026 goal is to land an internship at a Big Tech company. That's what I've been building toward. Upskilling in tech, grinding DSA, the whole thing. Applying for an attachment Mar 22, 2026·9 min read·521
Aced the ACE: A Strategic Guide to the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer ExamI apologize this took so long to get out. Between starting a new role as a Software Engineer and balancing the 2:00 AM grind, I had to wait until I could sit down and write something that actually adds value. But I’m coming to you now with the missio...Feb 8, 2026·5 min read·305
Terraform Explained: Why Your Cloud Infrastructure Needs a BlueprintLet’s be real for a second. We’ve all been there. You start a new project on Google Cloud or AWS. You’re excited. You log into the console, click "Create Instance," pick a region (probably europe-west1 because latency to Nairobi matters), open a few ...Jan 8, 2026·5 min read·75
How I Bagged the Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer CertNGL, this whole Machine Learning thing? It really ain’t my shit. If you’ve followed my journey or read my previous posts, you know I’m a Software and Cloud Engineer through and through. I like building systems that have clear logic, predictable inte...Jan 6, 2026·5 min read·433
