81 articles on DevOps, cloud, and platform engineering, written from production experience.
81 articles
Dropping 2026-10-15
After SolarWinds and Log4j, software supply-chain security is non-negotiable. A practical intro to SBOMs, artifact signing with Sigstore, and SLSA provenance in your pipeline.
Dropping 2026-10-20
A practical guide for companies hiring a DevOps engineer in Cameroon or remotely from Africa, where to look, how to screen, what to pay, and the mistakes to avoid.
Dropping 2026-10-22
When you actually need multiple AWS regions, the patterns for getting there, active-passive vs active-active, data replication, global routing, and the costs people underestimate.
Dropping 2026-10-29
One giant state file doesn't survive contact with a growing team. How to split state, structure environments, manage remote backends, and keep Terraform fast and safe at scale.
Dropping 2026-11-03
The concrete playbook I used to get hired remotely as a DevOps engineer from Cameroon by teams in Europe and North America, proof of work, positioning, and the async habits that seal it.
Dropping 2026-11-04
A practical, honest walkthrough of planning a trip from Cameroon to an AWS community event in Nairobi: flights, the Kenya entry rules for Cameroon passports, a real budget, and how I fit sightseeing around a US Eastern remote job.
Dropping 2026-11-05
Serverless breaks traditional monitoring, there's no host to watch and execution is fragmented. How to get real observability with distributed tracing, structured logs, and OTel.
Dropping 2026-11-12
An honest reflection on a year of learning in public as a DevOps engineer, what actually grew my reputation and network, what was a waste of time, and what I'd tell my past self.
Dropping 2026-11-19
Kubernetes autoscaling has three layers that work together, pods (HPA/KEDA) and nodes (Karpenter/Cluster Autoscaler). How they fit, where each shines, and how to avoid thrash.
Dropping 2026-11-26
A blameless post-mortem walkthrough of a realistic production outage, the timeline, the root cause, the contributing factors, and the action items that actually prevent recurrence.
Dropping 2026-12-03
The Well-Architected Framework is more than a checklist. What a real review looks like across the six pillars, the questions that surface the most risk, and how to act on findings.
Dropping 2026-12-10
A practical FinOps playbook distilled from a year of cutting cloud bills, visibility first, the highest-leverage levers in order, and why culture beats any single optimization.
Dropping 2026-12-15
The DevOps skills that actually get you hired, from someone who's been hired remotely across three continents and mentors engineers in Africa. What matters, what's noise, and what to learn first.
Dropping 2026-12-17
The tools I actually reach for going into 2027, across IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, security, and cost, and, just as important, the ones I've stopped using.
Dropping 2026-12-24
Lessons from mentoring 100+ aspiring DevOps engineers across Africa through Talent Forge and NextGen Playground, what holds people back, what accelerates them, and what mentors get wrong.
Dropping 2026-12-31
A year-end reflection on what I shipped, learned, and changed in 2026 across DevOps, open source, and community, plus where I'm pointing my focus for 2027.
Dropping 2027-01-07
Not pipelines and Kubernetes all day. An honest, hour-by-hour look at what the DevOps job really is, the standups, the debugging, the waiting, the toil, and the work that actually moves the needle.
Dropping 2027-01-14
Most people learning Kubernetes make the same avoidable mistakes, jumping to clusters too early, skipping Linux and networking, drowning in tools. Here's what actually gets you productive faster.
Dropping 2027-01-21
A practical guide to building production-grade monitoring with CloudWatch, from metrics and alarms to dashboards and anomaly detection. Everything you need to stop flying blind.
Dropping 2027-02-04
A practical guide to building incident response playbooks for cloud teams, covering playbook anatomy, severity levels, communication templates, AWS tooling, and a ready-to-use markdown template.
Dropping 2027-02-18
A practical guide to observability for distributed microservices on AWS, covering CloudWatch Container Insights, X-Ray distributed tracing, SLOs, cascade failure detection, and a Terraform example for enabling tracing on ECS.
Dropping 2027-03-04
A hands-on guide to log-based troubleshooting in production, covering structured logging, CloudWatch Logs Insights queries, log correlation, metric filters, and a real-world walkthrough of debugging API 500 errors.
2026-10-08 · 8 min read
GitOps is more than 'put YAML in Git.' The common anti-patterns, config drift, secrets in repos, monorepo sprawl, manual kubectl, and the practices that fix them.
2026-10-06 · 8 min read
What DevOps engineers actually earn in Cameroon versus working remotely for international teams, the pay gap, what drives it, and how to move up the curve.
2026-10-01 · 8 min read
How Lambda cold starts actually work, why memory is the only performance dial that matters, and how to tune functions for speed and cost at the same time.
2026-09-29 · 13 min read
A layered security model for AI agents on AWS Bedrock: read-only IAM boundaries, Bedrock Guardrails, DynamoDB audit trails, SSM kill switches, and prompt-level approval gates. Defense-in-depth for when AI gets production access.
2026-09-24 · 8 min read
Schema changes don't have to mean maintenance windows. The expand-contract pattern, backward-compatible migrations, and how to deploy schema and code changes safely without downtime.
2026-09-22 · 11 min read
A technical deep-dive into how CloudSentry calculates a 0-100 security score for AWS accounts using weighted categories, severity deductions, per-category caps, and week-over-week trend tracking in DynamoDB.
2026-09-22 · 9 min read
The DevOps interview questions that really come up, from screening to the 3am scenarios, with how I think about answering them, from someone who's been on both sides.
2026-09-17 · 8 min read
Cost Explorer is great for browsing, but for real FinOps you want queryable data. Here's how to build a cost dashboard on the Cost and Usage Report with Athena and QuickSight.
2026-09-15 · 14 min read
How I built an AI-powered operations platform with 8 cron jobs, self-healing logic, and Slack-driven deploys to run a 434-endpoint production API without dedicated SRE staff.
2026-09-10 · 7 min read
By default every pod can talk to every other pod. Network Policies fix that. A practical guide to default-deny, ingress/egress rules, and zero-trust networking in Kubernetes.
2026-09-08 · 7 min read
An honest answer to whether you need a university degree to become a DevOps engineer, especially in Africa, and what actually gets you hired instead.
2026-09-08 · 12 min read
A practical architecture pattern where a single EC2 instance can be destroyed and recreated with zero data loss, using SSM Parameter Store for secrets and S3 for backups. No orchestrator required.
2026-09-03 · 8 min read
An honest comparison of AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, state, drift, multi-cloud, modules, and ecosystem, to help you pick the right IaC tool for your team.
2026-08-27 · 9 min read
A practical guide to AWS disaster recovery, defining RTO/RPO, choosing between backup-restore, pilot light, warm standby, and active-active, and what each really costs.
2026-08-25 · 8 min read
A practical guide for sysadmins, IT support, and developers in Africa switching into DevOps, what transfers, what to learn, and how to make the jump without starting from zero.
2026-08-23 · 7 min read
What the AWS Community Builder program is, why it's worth pursuing from Africa, and the honest steps I took to get in from Cameroon, plus what it actually changed.
2026-08-23 · 12 min read
Everything you need to know about the AWS Community Builders program, what reviewers actually look for, how to prepare your application, and what to do after selection. Written from inside the program.
2026-08-21 · 10 min read
How I built a standalone pipeline that reduces schedule tag changes from 45-80 minutes of full infrastructure risk to a 3-minute, zero-blast-radius operation with production guards, noop protection, and preflight validation.
2026-08-20 · 8 min read
Most alerting setups page too much and signal too little. Here's how to write Prometheus alert rules that are symptom-based, actionable, and tuned so on-call actually trusts them.
2026-08-13 · 7 min read
Two of the highest-leverage AWS cost levers, migrating to Graviton (ARM) instances and committing with Savings Plans, explained with the trade-offs and a migration approach.
2026-08-11 · 8 min read
Exactly what to put in a DevOps portfolio that convinces remote employers to hire you, the projects that matter, how to present them, and the mistakes that get you skipped.
2026-08-06 · 8 min read
Move beyond rolling updates, use Argo Rollouts for canary and blue-green deployments on Kubernetes, with automated analysis and rollback based on real metrics.
2026-08-04 · 10 min read
The full breakdown of building my own blog instead of relying on dev.to: the stack, the cost ($0/month), the tools, and why owning your content matters more than platform reach. Plus the cross-posting strategy that keeps dev.to as distribution.
2026-08-03 · 9 min read
A practical, no-fluff DevOps roadmap for engineers in Cameroon and Africa, the exact order to learn Linux, Docker, cloud, IaC, and Kubernetes, and how to turn it into remote work.
2026-08-02 · 7 min read
How I built an open-source serverless tool that automates weekly AWS account audits, scores infrastructure 0-100, and delivers prioritized fix commands for $0.21/month.
2026-08-02 · 15 min read
The AWS services and habits that reduce risk the most, Secrets Manager with rotation, SSM (no SSH keys), least-privilege IAM, CodeConnections, KMS, comprehensive logging (CloudTrail + VPC Flow Logs + S3 access logs), and the guardrails, with runnable Terraform.
2026-07-30 · 9 min read
Beyond the buzzword, a working reference for an Internal Developer Platform: Backstage service catalog, golden-path scaffolder, and the paved-road defaults that tie GitOps, observability, and CI/CD together.
2026-07-30 · 8 min read
How to build a multi-account AWS foundation with Terraform, Organizations, OUs, account vending, preventative SCPs, and a tamper-proof centralized CloudTrail.
2026-07-30 · 8 min read
A practical comparison of HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and the External Secrets Operator, how to choose, and how they work together on Kubernetes.
2026-07-30 · 8 min read
Building a production-grade Google Cloud foundation, resource hierarchy, shared VPC with Cloud NAT, a project factory, and org-policy guardrails. All Terraform, CI-validated.
2026-07-30 · 7 min read
A copy-paste DevSecOps toolkit, pre-commit hooks, gitleaks, Trivy, tfsec, checkov, and hadolint wired into one CI pipeline. Security from the first commit, not bolted on after an audit.
2026-07-30 · 10 min read
How I built 5 production-grade AI agents, DevOps, Cost, Security, Incident, and IaC Review, on AWS Bedrock with guardrails, audit trails, and human-approval gates for write operations.
2026-07-30 · 7 min read
A step-by-step guide to deploying a production-ready serverless API, Lambda + API Gateway + DynamoDB, with least-privilege IAM, unit tests, and CI. All Terraform, zero console clicking.
2026-07-30 · 8 min read
Five Terraform patterns that set up AWS the right way from day one, Secrets Manager, least-privilege IAM, CodeConnections, KMS, and a full security baseline (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, Access Analyzer, CloudTrail).
2026-07-28 · 8 min read
Which DevOps certifications are actually worth it for engineers in Africa, the order to take them, and how to weigh certs against real projects when money is tight.
2026-07-23 · 8 min read
How to build decoupled, resilient systems on AWS using EventBridge for routing and Step Functions for orchestration, when to use each, and the patterns that keep them maintainable.
2026-07-16 · 8 min read
A practical introduction to DynamoDB data modeling, partition keys, single-table design, access patterns, and the mistakes that cause hot partitions and runaway cost.
2026-07-14 · 8 min read
How to build a DevOps freelancing career from Africa, finding international clients, pricing your work, scoping engagements, and keeping clients coming back.
2026-07-12 · 10 min read
How I designed, built, and launched a production lost-and-found platform from scratch, FastAPI, Flutter, React, AWS, mobile money, solving a real problem in Cameroon.
2026-07-09 · 8 min read
A decision guide for running containers on AWS, when to pick ECS, EKS, or Fargate, the real trade-offs on control, cost, and operational burden, and how to avoid over-engineering.
2026-07-02 · 9 min read
A clear, practical mental model of AWS VPC networking, subnets, route tables, gateways, NAT, security groups vs NACLs, and VPC endpoints, without the jargon overload.
2026-06-25 · 8 min read
A practical, repeatable approach to least-privilege IAM on AWS, start-deny, use Access Analyzer, scope with conditions, and avoid the wildcard traps that quietly grant too much.
2026-06-18 · 7 min read
How to actually test your Terraform, from free static checks (validate, tflint, tfsec) to real integration tests with Terratest, so your modules don't break production.
2026-06-11 · 7 min read
A practical guide to securing your GitHub Actions pipelines, replace long-lived cloud keys with OIDC, pin actions to SHAs, scope permissions, and stop supply-chain attacks before they start.
2026-06-08 · 9 min read
How I built a serverless pipeline on AWS that auto-monitors all CloudWatch log groups, scans for leaked credentials in real-time, sends rate-limited alerts, and provides a dashboard for triage, zero config after deploy.
2026-06-04 · 8 min read
A practical breakdown of why serverless Cloud Run behind Cloudflare outperforms always-on VMs for hosting many sites, on cost, scaling, security, and operations, with the trade-offs spelled out.
2026-06-04 · 11 min read
How I designed and operated a multi-tenant hosting platform on Google Cloud Run, fronted by Cloudflare, that serves 5,000+ sites globally, fast, secure, auto-scaling, and load-tested to grow well beyond that.
2026-06-03 · 7 min read
From building DevOps infrastructure for global teams from Cameroon, why hiring African cloud and DevOps engineers is a strategic advantage, not a compromise, and how to do it well.
2026-06-03 · 8 min read
Practical ways to run Kubernetes without burning money, right-sizing, autoscaling to zero, spot nodes, and the cost-aware habits I learned engineering from a constrained environment.
2026-06-03 · 11 min read
A detailed engineering case study, how I designed and operated a production EKS platform serving 50+ microservices and 1M+ requests/day, cutting infrastructure cost 40% and recovery time from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
2026-06-02 · 9 min read
An honest, first-person account of building a DevOps career from Buea, Cameroon, the power cuts, internet bottlenecks, timezone gymnastics, payment hurdles, and the workarounds that actually let me ship for global teams.
2026-06-02 · 8 min read
Real, implementable strategies to reduce your AWS and GCP bills by 30-70%, right-sizing, autoscaling, spot/preemptible instances, storage tiering, and the FinOps habits that keep costs down for good.
2026-06-01 · 8 min read
Most DevOps portfolios are a pile of disconnected demos. Here's how I built six open-source projects that compose into one enterprise-grade platform, and why that matters more than any single repo.
2026-06-01 · 9 min read
How to become a DevOps engineer in Cameroon and work remotely for global teams, the real skills, tools, and path I used to go from local IT to multi-cloud DevOps across six countries.
2026-05-11 · 12 min read
Talent Forge Program · Project 1 | Beginner → Intermediate The exact project that proves you can...
2026-04-27 · 5 min read
I recently went through the full process of setting up GKE Gateway API on a production-grade cluster...
2026-04-12 · 2 min read
Monitoring is one of the most overlooked parts of building systems. Until something breaks. Then...
2026-04-05 · 3 min read
Let's be real, when most people Google "how to become a DevOps engineer," they land on listicles...
2026-03-26 · 7 min read
Welcome to my AWS Service Spotlight series, where I break down AWS services, how they work, when to...
2026-03-20 · 7 min read
How to structure Terraform code for teams of 5-50 engineers, with real patterns that scale and prevent disasters.
2026-03-19 · 6 min read
Practical AWS cost optimization techniques that saved my clients 40-70% on their cloud bills, with real examples and implementation guides.
2026-03-18 · 4 min read
A practical comparison of the three most popular service mesh solutions for Kubernetes, with real-world deployment considerations and performance benchmarks.
2026-03-18 · 3 min read
Monitoring your infrastructure shouldn't be complicated. In this guide, I'll show you how to spin up...
2026-03-18 · 6 min read
Welcome to my AWS Service Spotlight series, where I break down AWS services, how they work, when to...
2026-03-17 · 2 min read
Overview Licensing in the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch + Kibana) controls access to...
2026-03-16 · 3 min read
Prerequisites Before starting, make sure you have these installed: Docker...
2026-03-13 · 7 min read
Overview The PECOS Data Extraction Pipeline is an enterprise-grade ETL workflow that...
2025-12-05 · 2 min read
LocalTunnel Server Setup Documentation 1. Files 1.1...
2025-10-15 · 2 min read
Overview This guide explains how to set up and connect Bitbucket repositories with ArgoCD...
2025-10-14 · 3 min read
Managing secure access to ArgoCD's web UI on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can be streamlined with...
2025-10-01 · 2 min read
This guide will walk you through hosting a static website on AWS S3 using your code from GitHub(my...
2025-09-18 · 2 min read
Automate CloudWatch Agent Setup on EC2 with Terraform and AWS SSM Managing monitoring...
2025-09-13 · 5 min read
Vault is a powerful secrets management tool. Running Vault on Kubernetes in HA mode with Raft backend...
2025-09-13 · 2 min read
After successfully deploying Vault in Kubernetes with High Availability (HA) and Raft storage,...
2025-09-09 · 11 min read
A complete guide to the GitFlow branching strategy, main, develop, feature, release, and hotfix branches, the git-flow commands, naming conventions, and when to use it.
2025-09-04 · 2 min read
Accessing servers via SSH or RDP just to install or configure monitoring agents isn’t scalable or...
2025-09-03 · 4 min read
Deploying Node-RED on Kubernetes is a powerful way to run your low-code workflows at scale. In this...
2025-09-01 · 2 min read
Automating AWS EC2 instance launches with Terraform is powerful, but adding custom user data scripts...
2025-08-29 · 1 min read
I just published a GitHub repository that simplifies deploying the Datadog AWS integration using...
2025-08-25 · 2 min read
When you deploy services like Jenkins (8080), SonarQube (9000), or Grafana (3000), by default they...
2025-08-22 · 2 min read
Sometimes, you may need to reset the admin password for Apache Archiva running inside a Docker...
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