Effie Njoki🇰🇪

Enterprise DevOps Architect | Mentor

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

Attending @AWSreInvent 2025 in Las Vegas has been one of the most meaningful milestones in my tech journey.

I was among the few selected to receive the All Builders Welcome Grant from @awscloud .

An incredible opportunity that allowed me to visit the US for the first time, meet brilliant minds from around the world, and see firsthand how innovators and successful startups are using the power of AWS to solve real-world problems.

I also got the chance to make amazing tech friends from different countries, explore the Expo, and experience the energy of a truly global community.

#awsreinvent2025 #reinvent2025 #reinvent

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@clovistb Devops engineers learn a database so they know who to blame, database engineers don’t learn CI/CD because they already know who to blame.

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@clovistb Ofcourse it will

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@clovistb My first idea was SGs/NACLs but then we also have VPC BPA exclusion, VPC Block Public Access, a new feature you can use, under creating a new BPA exclusion select the subnet as a resource type, and change the mode to egress-only to block public inbound traffic into the subnet.

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

Design for failure. Optimize for cost. Scale with intent.
Certified to build systems that last ✅

https://t.co/sXieCS1Ykc

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

Shipped pipelines, survived outages, automated the boring stuff.
Now it’s official. ✅ #AWSDevOpsPro

https://t.co/zIyH1K3ya0

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@Pr0l1fik @AWSreInvent @awscloud Hello

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

Attending @AWSreInvent 2025 in Las Vegas has been one of the most meaningful milestones in my tech journey.

I was among the few selected to receive the All Builders Welcome Grant from @awscloud .

An incredible opportunity that allowed me to visit the US for the first time, meet brilliant minds from around the world, and see firsthand how innovators and successful startups are using the power of AWS to solve real-world problems.

I also got the chance to make amazing tech friends from different countries, explore the Expo, and experience the energy of a truly global community.

#awsreinvent2025 #reinvent2025 #reinvent

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

Almost same, you require a deeper knowledge in the core services in GCP, most questions revolved around networking, organizations, storage, permissions , setting up a project in GCP and cli commands, a lot of GKE as well..

Most concepts are the same as in AWS, I kept matching services to Aws big query = redshift, pub/sub = sqs,sns …

can’t wait for the chance to take the pro one.

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

Studying GCP while working full-time in AWS felt like learning a different dialect of a language I already speak.

https://t.co/bfN1k5pgMQ

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@Adityapandeydev In this case, it seems like I may never mature 😅 mac all the way

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@NdemoKelvin Imagine fixing a bug in a production kubernetes cluster kama umenyamaza 😂 Bro that’s fiction!

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@StanleyMasinde_ We are here to help.

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@iamallyou_ @tifethedev This is where observability saves lives.

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

Backend dev ➝ Cloud dev
This is not a transition… It’s an upgrade!

https://t.co/1NRb9TS1re

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@livingdevops I once had the same set-up, but for my case, it was one Terraform template provisioning resources to two different AWS accounts, and it was almost impossible, given that some resources were shared, the hardest two weeks of my year. So just isolate and conquer 🫡

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@livingdevops - Terraform plans to destroy your weekend before applying anything

- Ansible insists it's idempotent... until it isn't

- Helm charts a course straight into dependency hell

- CloudFormation forms clouds of confusion

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@livingdevops So, being a dev before DevOps was a good move?
My dev background made picking up DevOps smoother, especially Linux, scripting, Git, networking, Docker, Python, and debugging infra.

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@CcNyanchera Congats 🥳

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@ifeanyi_otuonye Everytime I get an AWS CSE on my case, I always can't help thinking: That could be me at the other end of the support call session.

[Effie Njoki🇰🇪 @effiecancode]

@WinfredKilonzoN I'm sure there was a middle ground 😅