Akhilesh Mishra

After a few months of planning, I am finally launching my most-awaited Advanced DevOps + MLOps + AIops Bootcamp. 25 weeks. 50 live, 3-hour classes. Life time access. This bootcamp is built for the 2026 job market. Companies are not just hiring DevOps engineers anymore. They are hiring someone who can take full ownership of systems and use AI to its fullest to improve productivity. Whether you are trying to transition into Devops from a different domain or improve your existing Devops skills, it helps both. This bootcamp gives you all of that. Starting 18th April 2026. Since this bootcamp is slightly expensive for Indian folks, I am giving an 25% Early bird discount to those who enroll by Sunday EOD. Check it out: livingdevops.com/courses/25-wee…

- Politicians in India moonlight as actors, comedians, run private businesses. - Billionaires own 100 different companies across 100 different industries. - Angel investors hold stakes in 20 startups simultaneously. Nobody bats an eye. But the moment a salaried engineer picks up a freelance project after 6 PM? > "That's unethical." > "You are not fully committed." > "Check your employment contract." And here is the real problem nobody talks about. Metro city salaries sound big until you do the math. Rent, EMI, groceries, school fees. Forced inflation in every city where these jobs actually exist. Most engineers are one job loss away from a real crisis. No backup. No runway. Nothing. Companies will not save you. They will send you a relieving letter and move on. So you build something on the side. After your work hours. On weekends. On your own time. Using your own brain. And suddenly you are the problem. Every influencer telling you to stay loyal to your employer? They built their audience as a side hustle while working a job. Every founder preaching focus? They had consulting income while building their startup. They pulled the ladder up. Your financial security is your responsibility. Not your employer's. Not the government's. Build the backup. Build it now. Build it quietly if you have to. But build it.

Can we stop AI fear-mongering? - DevOps is not dead. - SRE is not dead. - Platform Engineering is not dead. - Cloud Engineering is not dead. In 2026, everyone said AI agents would replace us. They are wrong. AI is good at: → Reading docs fast → Generating boilerplate → Parsing logs at scale → Writing code that looks right → And hallucinating with confidence They suck at → Complex production incidents → Debugging what the AI itself broke → Making judgment calls under pressure → Understanding why your infra is on fire AI hallucinates. Constantly. It gives you confident wrong answers in your most critical moments. And someone has to clean up that mess. That someone is you. Here is the real situation in 2026: Companies are not replacing engineers with AI. They are replacing engineers who refuse to learn AI with engineers who use it well. Big difference. AI tools need skilled engineers to make them worth the invoice. The $50K/month AI stack is worthless without a human who can tell it what to do, verify what it outputs, and fix what it breaks. That human is the most valuable person in the room. Be that human.

@Abhishekcur Yes

@livingdevops still true engineering essence is unreplaceable, becuase it's not just writing code, it's more technical discussions and decisions

@techyoutbe Yes, fear generate views, and most care about views then the truth

@livingdevops Nothing is dead yet, just grabbing attention with this negative word

Stop putting AWS keys in GitHub Actions Secrets before a security incident hits you in the face They live forever. Nobody rotates them. One leak and the blast radius is huge(given that people give admin-level permissions to those). OIDC fixes this in 20 minutes. Short-lived tokens. No keys stored anywhere. Wrote a detailed blog about OIDC implementation with Terraform, give it a read 👇 @akhilesh-mishra/github-actions-oidc-with-aws-step-by-step-setup-guide-2026-0a28843ac76e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@akhilesh-mish…

Most engineers learn 4-5 Git commands (add, commit, push, pull, status) and think they know git. Well, it's enough to ship code and also enough to get into trouble 😉 At least learn the ones below to stay safe --> git log --oneline --graph --all Shows the entire branch history as a tree. Whole repo, one screen. --> git reflog Remembers every action for 90 days. Deleted a branch? Reset to the wrong commit? Force-pushed over your work? Reflog brings it back. --> git stash Parks uncommitted work without a commit. Switch branches, come back, pop it. No fake "WIP" commits in your history. --> git bisect Turns debugging into binary search. Tell it a working commit and a broken one. Find the bad commit across hundreds of changes in five steps. --> git blame Finds the commit, the PR, and the context behind a decision someone made eighteen months ago. --> git cherry-pick Pulls a single commit from one branch into another. Hotfix on main you need on staging? One command, no baggage. --> git diff --staged Shows exactly what's about to be committed. Catches debug prints and hardcoded keys before they ship. --> git restore --staged Unstages a file without losing your changes. The fix for "I added the wrong file." --> git switch Modern replacement for git checkout when moving between branches. Cleaner and harder to misuse. --> git clean -fd Deletes untracked files and directories. The nuclear option for a messy working tree. --> git commit --amend Rewrites your last commit. Forgot a file? Bad message? Fix it before anyone sees. Save it. Share it. and Like this post as a thank you😀😀

@saii_04 Yes it does

@livingdevops Consistency leads to success, congratulations!🎉

Word of mouth is the best marketing there is, and that is how my DevOps Bootcamps make me good money (without any Insta/Google Ads)

@MuthaNagavamsi Thank you Man 😀

@livingdevops good work always gets appreciated man.

@devops_nk Thank you for support, brother

@livingdevops A big congratulations 🎉 Your hard work dedication and showing up every single day helps you to achieve this keep going...

@techyoutbe Thank you brother for support

@livingdevops Many Congratulations Bro...Happy for you!! Finally your efforts and right decision paying you what you deserve!

@sickdotdev AI can get offended? Anthropic achieved AGI i guess 😉😉

received this email after insulting claude

@MarioNawfal @grok @nikitabier @X @elonmusk I wish LinkedIn also implement this feature.

X is now using @Grok to detect original content uploaders @nikitabier just confirmed: we can instantly tell when you’re uploading stuff you stole from other platforms. No more clout-chasing reposts without credit. Original creators eating GOOD. @X, @elonmusk

@elonmusk AI generated video will be counted as “Original Content”?

Grok Imagine tutorial made with Grok Imagine. These is all AI-generated!