Dele

One of the best interview advice I received.. Show something relevant to the job during the interview! Diagram, Technical Demo, Research paper.. anything you could think of! You will score a lot of points!

If you don’t have confidence, build evidence. If you don’t have evidence, build skill. If you don’t have skill, build discipline. If you don’t have discipline, build accountability. If you don’t have accountability, remove friends + change environment + add stakes.

𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 ≠ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 You shipped the feature, all tests passed, and the PR is merged. But who's maintaining that code in three years when you've moved on? In 2005, over 80% of Google Search infrastructure pushes caused user-facing bugs. The fix wasn't better engineers. It was shifting testing left, meaning catching problems in the editor, not in production. Bugs dropped by half within a year. Titus Winters put it simply: "Software engineering is programming integrated over time." Every function you write has a lifespan, a maintenance cost, and someone who'll inherit it without context. The book "Software Engineering at Google" lays out principles I keep coming back to after 23 years of building software. Hyrum's Law says every observable behavior of your system becomes someone's dependency, documented or not. The Beyoncé Rule says if you liked that behavior, you should have put a test on it. Google's engineers largely stopped using mocking frameworks because mocks test how something was done, not what actually happened. And DORA data keeps proving what we already know: small, frequent releases beat mega-deploys every time. The teams that ship well aren't the ones with the best coders. They're the ones with the best systems around their code. I've seen this managing teams of 40+ engineers: process beats talent when talent doesn't have process. The book is free at abseil.io. I broke down all 11 lessons with examples beyond Google. 👉 Full breakdown here: newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/what-i-learn… -- 🎁 This newsletter is brought to you by @QodoAI: qodo.ai/?utm_source=dr…

He literally nailed life in a tweet.

One skill that will reward you a lot in the future ? Public speaking Please don;t shy away from presenting your work and results!

CloudTrail can be your best ally, or your worst enemy ($$$)

If you need some savings to be made in your Cloud Account ..!

Secure AI is mostly secure platform engineering. The “AI” part changes the blast radius + regulators, not the fundamentals.

If you’re hiring for “AI security” and your candidate can’t talk IAM, logging, and incident response… You’re hiring a marketer, not an engineer.

Platform Engineering !

Another sigle ... KSPM Kubernetes Security Posture Management

Career note: “AI security” without IAM + K8s + logging + incident response is cosplay. Real leverage = platform fundamentals.

If you sell AI to enterprises, you need a security story that isn’t fluff: architecture, controls, logging, IR plan, and how you handle customer data.

A useful AI security metric: Mean time to answer: “What changed? Who accessed what? What data moved?” If it’s hours, you’re not ready.

Egress control is underrated. Private endpoints, allow-lists, and “default deny” patterns are how you stop silent data leaks.

Cloud Security Posture Management

DevSecOps Pipeline - Shift Security Left

AI security buyers aren’t impressed by jargon. They buy procurement-ready answers: controls, logs, evidence, response plan.