ANAlex Nyamburainblog.lxmwaniky.me·4d ago · 6 min readThe 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. Th00
ANAlex Nyamburainblog.lxmwaniky.me·Jul 6 · 4 min readTo My 18-Year-Old Self, Three Years Later in TechHappy anniversary. 3 years ago today, you opened your first programming tutorial. You were 18 years old, waiting to join campus in September, with no roadmap, no connections, and absolutely no idea ho01M
ANAlex Nyamburainblog.lxmwaniky.me·Jul 6 · 8 min readAre We Ready to Hand Over the Pager? The Mechanical vs. Judgment Gap in AI-Driven SREI’ve spent the last few weeks intimately familiar with the absolute worst part of systems engineering: the fear of the 3:00 AM PagerDuty call. If you've ever been on an on-call rotation, you know the 71M
ANAlex Nyamburainblog.lxmwaniky.me·Jun 29 · 14 min readJenkins, Docker, and Cloud Run: Building a Pipeline That Actually DeploysA few weeks ago, I wrote about how I built a zero-collision URL shortener in Go using a 4-round Feistel cipher, Redis caching, and a bunch of SRE patterns. At the end of that post, I listed what was n51C
ANAlex Nyamburainblog.lxmwaniky.me·Jun 25 · 6 min readBeyond Certification: The Engineering Principles I Learned While Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer CertificationNGL, this one was pure chaos. If you’ve read my previous posts, you know I recently secured the GCP "Triple Crown" (ACE, PMLE, and GenAI Leader). I was riding high. I scheduled the Google Cloud Profes00