Writing on Devops
Articles on Devops from Tauseef Fayyaz: practical writing on engineering, AI and tech careers, drawn from leading a team and mentoring engineers.
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8 posts tagged “devops”
- career growth
Getting Into Cybersecurity as a Fresh Graduate: Where to Actually Start
How to get into cybersecurity as a fresh graduate in 2026: the three entry routes that actually hire, which certifications are worth paying for, a home lab, a portfolio of write ups and a six month plan.Sep 15, 202642 - git
Git, Properly: The Model Behind the Commands You Use Every Day
How Git works underneath the commands: three places your code lives, commits as snapshots, branches as pointers and HEAD. Then fetch vs pull, stash, reset vs revert, reflog recovery, force-with-lease and what Git 3.0 changes.Sep 13, 202638 - devops
How to Become a DevOps Engineer in Pakistan: An Honest Roadmap for Beginners
How to become a DevOps engineer when it is rarely a fresh-grad title: the realistic routes in, a DevOps roadmap for beginners, AWS vs Azure, which certifications are worth it, and home lab projects that prove you can run real systems.Sep 6, 202640 - backend
Sixteen Things That Break a Backend, and What Prevents Each
Backend development best practices are mostly about failure: slow databases, duplicate requests, silent timeouts. Sixteen things that break a backend, grouped by where they bite, and the boring default that prevents each one.Aug 17, 202644 - system design
Microservices Practices That Actually Keep Them Workable
Microservices best practices that matter once you genuinely need services, and the honest case for not splitting too early: business boundaries, data ownership, resilience, idempotency, events, tracing, contract tests and gradual deploys.Jul 29, 202625 - testing
Five Kinds of API Test and When Each One Earns Its Place
The five types of API testing that do most of the work: functional, integration, regression, load and security. What each catches, what each misses, how to spread your effort, and the one-minute check OWASP ranks as the top API risk.Jul 7, 202620 - ai
Six Ways to Structure Work for an AI Agent
Six AI agent workflow patterns, from routing and parallelisation to orchestrator workers, tool use, reflection and planning: what each is for, how each fails, and the durable execution work that makes an agent safe to leave running.Jul 1, 202648 - devops
What Actually Happens Between Your Pull Request and Production
A CI/CD pipeline explained as a system, not a set of buttons: the five stages from pull request to production, what each protects you from, rolling vs blue-green vs canary, and how to read a failed stage in ten seconds.Jun 25, 202657
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