This was how two colleagues got married on our floor. The wife was in my team and the husband in another team.
They don’t even speak to each other at the office.
When she got engaged, we were congratulating and hyping her.
Meanwhile, oko iyawo was sitting behind us
It has been a rough couple of months for me, I initially knew all this would be hard but I never knew the intensity.
Every single repost, donation and prayer by well wishers is appreciated. I would not be here if not for you all, it’s still a far journey but with you all I know it’ll be worth it.
My deepest gratitude goes to people that have been here from day one, not giving up even when i almost and checked up on me to make sure i was okay, God bless you.
It’ll all make sense very soon, it’ll be hard but it’ll be worth it all eventually, God is good.
I did not plan to become an SRE.
Before my service year, I was doing patchy hardware work just to sponsor myself through higher education.
Fixing machines. Running cables. Whatever paid.
I had a Computer Science degree, but no clear direction.
Then I stumbled into the cloud.
Your RDS database suddenly spikes to 100% CPU in production.
Users are screaming. Your boss is calling.
What do you check first?
A - Slow query logs
B - Active connections
C - Instance metrics on CloudWatch
D - Check if a deployment just happened
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The most dangerous person in any workplace.
The one who says I am the only one who knows how this works.
That is not value. That is a trap.
For them and for the organisation.
The moment they leave, get sick, or get promoted, everything collapses.
Real value is building something that works with or without you.
A software engineer in Nigeria earns roughly 400,000 naira a month.
A software engineer in the US earns around $12,000 a month.
At today's exchange rate, that is over 16 million naira.
Same Python. Same JavaScript. Same GitHub. Same Stack Overflow.
One passport is the only difference.
Is this a skill gap or a system deliberately designed to keep talent cheap?
January 31 2017.
A Tuesday night.
A GitLab engineer was exhausted after hours of fighting a database attack.
He was trying to restore the system and remove data from the wrong server.
Then he made one mistake that changed everything.