Banter from my friend @Olusegunverdict an ardent Arsenal fan @theplatformng on Friday.
We differ in opinion but still remain cordial. Lessons on democracy.
Written by @MatAshimolowo .official
WE WILL NOT BE SILENT
A Celebration of Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye
There comes a time when silence becomes ingratitude.
There comes a time when honour becomes a sacred duty.
There comes a time when sons and daughters must rise to celebrate the gifts that God has given to a generation.
This is such a time.
We refuse to be silent while men and women of eternal significance are reduced to headlines, controversies, and social media trends.
We refuse to stand by while those who have sacrificed decades in service to God and humanity are casually criticized by people who have built nothing, fathered nobody, planted no churches, and transformed no nations.
The sons and daughters of prophets must never be silent while cheap publicity seekers use great men as instruments for attention.
A generation that does not honour its fathers has no future.
A people who cannot recognize greatness in their midst will eventually suffer the tragedy of its absence.
Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye is not merely a church leader.
He is not merely a denomination head.
He is not merely a respected minister.
He is one of the most significant Christian leaders of our generation and one of the greatest spiritual gifts God has given to Africa and the global Church.
We should never allow a man who chose humility to become the chewing stick of the uninformed.
We should never permit the noise of critics to drown out the voice of history.
We should never watch while modern-day Sauls seek to intimidate, discredit, or silence God's servants.
Scripture records how King Saul pursued David.
Scripture records how Doeg the Edomite became an instrument of destruction against the priests of God.
Throughout history, political power has often sought to suppress prophetic voices.
Yet God has always preserved His servants and vindicated His purpose.
The Church must never become indifferent when its fathers are unfairly attacked.
Nor should we wait until our prophets cross into eternity before we begin to celebrate them.
Too often, flowers are sent to funerals when they should have been delivered while the recipient was still alive.
If you're planning to get into DevOps in 2026, stop learning like it's 2020.
>> Choose Kubernetes. Every serious job posting demands real K8s experience. Every important platform runs on it.
>> Choose GitHub Actions over Jenkins. Jenkins feels like maintaining legacy code. GitHub Actions integrates with your repos, includes built-in security scanning, and every company is already moving to it.
>> Choose Terraform. Works everywhere. Learn once, provision anywhere.
>> Choose Python. Fast enough for 99% of DevOps work. Every AI tool runs on it.
>> Choose Loki + Grafana over Datadog. Datadog will quietly destroy your budget. Loki + Grafana wins on flexibility and price — especially in Kubernetes environments.
>> Learn ArgoCD or Flux. GitOps is the standard. Manual deployments are dead.
>> Leave Ansible in the dumpster. Terraform + GitOps + ArgoCD handles the heavy lifting now.
>> Learn DevSecOps. Security is no longer the security team's problem. Shift left. Scan your code, containers, and IaC before it hits production.
Want me to add anything else?
Use AI as much as you can. Learn fast. Build fast. Troubleshoot fast. The engineers treating AI as a core tool will outrun everyone else.
Also learn system design, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering. Platform engineering is the evolution of DevOps.
P.S. Don't stop at DevOps in 2026. Learn MLOps, AIOps, and AI infrastructure. That's where the jobs, the money, and the future are going.
Great analysis. This isn’t about replacing security engineers; it’s about accessibility.
One nuance: the same AI that helps defenders also helps attackers. We’re already seeing AI-assisted attacks, so over-trusting these tools is risky. AI amplifies both sides.
Say this with me:
Dear God,
David stained his hands and Peter broke his word, yet mercy did not resign them from destiny. Father, where I fractured trust through immaturity, please restore and reintroduce me to my assignment.
Where I squandered sacred opportunities through inconsistency, clothe me again with discipline, depth, and the dignity of stewardship.
Baba, na you dey restore fallen kings and recommission trembling apostles and you're also the author of my story.
So please don't let my misjudgment mutate into permanent limitation. Let your mercy interrupt what pride & foolishness almost destroyed.
Thank you sir.
Amen
Make up your mind today, whatever God will not give me, may I not try to get it. I will never compromise seeking the favour of any trying to get what God would not grant me. I will honour all but receive only that which God chooses to give for he alone is my source.
Proverbs 29:26
26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the Lord.
#MondayMotivation
No matter how many “come back home” campaigns we run, no matter the emotional pull of family, culture or “building Nigeria,” the honest truth remains: people will always migrate toward where their humanity is protected even when they have little.
A place where low income doesn’t automatically translate to daily humiliation, where a single sickness doesn’t wipe out years of savings, where you can lose your job and still feed your children for months without begging, where darkness doesn’t swallow your street the moment the sun sets. Until Nigeria (and indeed most African countries) can offer that basic safety net including functional electricity, affordable healthcare, unemployment support, decent public schools, security of life and properties. The “greener pasture” will keep calling, and our best brains will keep answering.
Love for country is real, but survival is stronger. Fix the system first, then the return will be voluntary, sustainable and joyful. Anything else is just sentiment dressed as strategy.
That’s the hard truth.
@Aibytezzz It’s not as simple as it looks. Yes you’ll have the barebones but upkeep, UI changes, database management, etc will still require actual skill or base coding knowledge. A.I prompts will only get you so far and they do make mistakes
“For the first time in a long time, the weakest link isn’t just employees, it’s now AI agents inside the browser.”
In this conversation, Audrey Adeline explains how modern browsers have become one of the most targeted attack surfaces.
Dive in 👉 https://t.co/2k3P4G4GxS