PALANTIR REPORTS EARNINGS TODAY AFTER CLOSE
WALL STREET EXPECTS REVENUE UP 75% Y/Y AND EPS UP 115%
PERSONALLY I AM WATCHING TOTAL CUSTOMER COUNT $PLTR ENDED Q4 2025 WITH 954
KALSHI HAS Q1 2026 CUSTOMERS AT 1,020 THAT WOULD BE UP ~39% Y/Y
The mind is the battlefield where success or failure is decided.
Feed it with clarity, discipline, and positivity, and it builds you up.
Neglect it or drown it in doubt and fear, and it tears you down.
Full Cloud Engineer Roadmap – 2025 Edition
#CloudSOCFridays
When I started taking this path seriously, I didn’t have a clear map. I only had broken EC2s, missed IAM permissions, and half-working Lambda functions. But I kept showing up.
If I had to start from zero today, this is exactly how I’d do it.
Here’s the roadmap + the links to each resource.
You won’t see this kind of post anywhere on the internet.
But I, Oluwatobi, will always give you premium content for free.
Alright. Here we go.
1. Understand the role
You’re not just learning AWS or Azure. You’re learning how to build and defend cloud systems end to end e.g networking, storage, compute, IAM, automation.
👉 Follow this guide to get a clear picture of what a cloud engineer really does:
https://t.co/4867qJHLZi
2. Master the fundamentals first.
Before touching the cloud, get comfortable with:
• Networking (DNS, IPs, NAT, VPNs)
•Linux (CLI, SSH, managing servers)
•Python or Bash (for automation)
👉 This GitHub roadmap breaks it all down in a clean, beginner-friendly way:
https://t.co/WU25ZEnnPC
3. Pick one cloud and go deep
I chose AWS. Azure and GCP are solid too. What matters most is depth and consistency.
👉 This article compares the platforms and helps you pick based on your goals:
https://t.co/m8afSkG456
4. Certifications open doors, but don’t stop there
Certs show commitment. Projects show skill.
👉 This blog walks you through which certs to take and what to do with them:
https://t.co/KaYfLYvuzJ
5. Learn the DevOps tools that make cloud work
Let me quickly tell you this, If the cloud is the house, DevOps is the plumbing.
So, learn:
•Terraform, CloudFormation
•GitHub Actions, Jenkins
•Docker, Kubernetes
•Monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus
👉 Use this DevOps roadmap to stay on track without getting overwhelmed:
https://t.co/2QgtJq9zUu
6. Build hands-on projects early.
The thing is, real projects will teach you what no tutorial can.
Start simple:
•Host a site on S3
•Build a Lambda + API Gateway backend
•Deploy a container app on ECS
•Set up a VPC from scratch
You don’t have to do exactly what I did, though.
👉 This YouTube playlist walks you through projects that actually matter:
https://t.co/2VY7wYDOPS
7. Learn cloud security as early as possible.
Misconfigurations are the #1 threat. Don’t ignore IAM, logging, encryption, GuardDuty, or Detective.
👉 This is the best visual map I’ve found for cloud security learning:
https://t.co/QVsqKOxb39
8. Prepare for interviews by understanding “why,” not just “what”.
They’ll test how you think, not just what you remember.
Like my python teacher, Angela Yu said; “𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.”
👉 These tips are from someone who landed a Google Cloud Architect role:
https://t.co/wcGMrleIDR
You don’t need to know everything. Just be serious about what you learn.
Take it one project at a time. It adds up. I believe in you. And you can ask any questions in the comment, I’ll be happy to help.
#CloudEngineer2025 #AWS #DevOps #CyberSecurity #BuildInPublic
The only person that can save you, is yourself. There will be no magical man in the sky, podium, or ballot that will lift this world from poverty, cruelty, or injustice.
Excerpt from "The Reactionaries" | #bindingchaos: https://t.co/WO6f5zscru
Anti-imperialism but not really
"The global elite cry “We should fix our problems at home!” but empire, communist internationalists and the so-called Islamic State are all borderless. Act local pretends that all goals are the same and what is good for one locality must bring good to others, but the nature of the ponzi scheme ensures that what feeds one, bleeds others. Self-professed ‘anti-imperialists’ pretend the empire starts when bombs start dropping and ignore the bomb manufacturers and the trade economy created to prop up dictators against the people’s will. Global warming and environmental destruction by multi-national corporations don’t know borders but when their victims seek refuge in the states which destroyed their homes they are killed and imprisoned and the reactionary population murmurs completely meaningless phrases like ‘it’s just not feasible’.
Nationalists pretending they are anti-imperialists pretend we live in a bi-polar, left-right world. We have a top down world with a core mafia cartel and outlying splinter mafias. Neutrality, especially by those at the top who are supporting the ponzi scheme, does not just help the oppressor, it is neutrality by the oppressor.
If anti-imperialists are truly anti-imperialist they will empty Coke products which were all violently stolen from others. They will stop Areva, the global blight which destroys Niger to power France. They will block Zim, the Israeli shipping firm allowed to profit off of the US funded Israeli occupation of Palestine, as the true anti-imperialists in the US have done. They will share copyrighted and patented material and dismantle their weapons industry. They will share their megaphone, not to speak for others but to amplify them. Anyone who has an exceptional life they are willing to risk could use it not to collect donations and media attention for themselves to appropriate another’s cause but to attract attention to their cause for them. The international human shields in the Gaza hospital who joined Gazans in solidarity as equals and risked their lives to attract a media spotlight showed international solidarity and respect. A UK livestreamer tastelessly exploiting Gaza tragedy and putting their lives at risk to feed his own celebrity did not.
Action to help people in need in a local neighbourhood is not reactionary until it is silencing others affected by the same problem. OpSafeWinter is not reactionary, it is part of a global autonomous resistance network of similar local initiatives. Occupy Sandy, which took all of the attention from the devastation of one hurricane and pulled the entire spotlight onto those least affected was embarrassingly reactionary. People in the streets of Ferguson and other US cities protesting police violence are acting locally. People in the US calling for the end of US military equipment being used on The People, only themselves, instead of an end to US military being used on any people, are reactionary.
Anyone saying it is not realistic to look at others in a worse position than themselves, or trying to partition the same problem to address only the part which affect themselves, is a reactionary. Even if just in the rhetoric, solidarity with the full problem must be acknowledged and the megaphone must be shared or there is no global solidarity. Instead of expending all their energy fighting to protect their exceptional status they could recognize the common struggle they share with the exact same enemies as everyone else and instead of trying to lower the bar just far enough to get themselves over it they could remove it. The minimum wage workers in the US could recognize their common struggle is not with the minimum wage workers in Australia but those in Bangladesh, and instead of trying to scratch their way to the top of the ponzi scheme they could use their position already near the top to remove support and dismantle it. The massive and disproportional megaphone given to citizens of the US is to be shared. If it is not shared it should be taken.
Endless fights to pass or block laws recognizes the authority of the state and judiciary, exhausts activists and is a losing game. There is no adjustment to a trade economy possible that will not recreate the exact same situation we are in now. There is no master that will be benevolent and no messiah who will save us. Reform is not possible.
To create a new paradigm, we have to start at the bottom. The bottom is where the principles we live under failed first, it is the canary that predicts the future for all. We live in a world where some being delayed at the airport is considered a gross violation of civil liberties but others being tortured and killed so their own elected leaders can use their body parts as a good luck fetish is not a newsworthy topic. Invasion of privacy is a pimple on the face of the beast killing children in ritual murders to bring good luck for heads of state. Both are manifestations of an empire that thinks it owns its citizens, that they are products to be used for whatever whim the powerful choose, from props in weapons advertising to product for the prison industrial complex. Hysterics over the pimple while leaving the dragon intact will obviously lead to more pimples that will offend even the most privileged."