To My 18-Year-Old Self, Three Years Later in Tech
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Are We Ready to Hand Over the Pager? The Mechanical vs. Judgment Gap in AI-Driven SRE
Alex Nyambura
Jenkins, Docker, and Cloud Run: Building a Pipeline That Actually Deploys
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Beyond Certification: The Engineering Principles I Learned While Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification
Alex Nyambura
How I Built a Zero-Collision, Cryptographically Obfuscated URL Shortener in Go
Alex Nyambura
Anatomy of a URL Request: How a webpage loads in under a second
Alex Nyambura
I Scored 100% on a Safaricom Codility Test. The Practical Part Was Elasticsearch. Let's Talk About It.
Alex Nyambura
Aced the ACE: A Strategic Guide to the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Exam
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Terraform Explained: Why Your Cloud Infrastructure Needs a Blueprint
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How I Bagged the Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer Cert
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My First Steps into BigQuery ML
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Got Certified as a Google Cloud Generative AI Leader
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From Attendee to Organizer: How DevFest Mt. Kenya 2025 Reminded Me Why Communities Matter
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Test-Driven Development: Write Better Code by Writing Tests First
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Reflections on My Year as GDG on Campus Lead
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Coding Didn’t Change My Life — Communities Did
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Conducting My First Cloud Symphony
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Understanding APIPA
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My Experience with NGINX
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Scaling to Enterprise: Multi-Department VLANs with CPU-Optimized Security
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Building Professional WiFi: Secure Employee Network + Isolated Guest Access
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Double NAT Reality Check: Why My Port Forwarding Dreams Were Crushed
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From Zero Security to Enterprise-Grade Protection: My First MikroTik Firewall Setup
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Day 2 Morning: Finally Getting Automatic IP Addresses Working
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The /24 vs. /0 Mistake: A MikroTik Routing Lesson
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