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[Jay @_mr_mutinda]

Huyu wa IT Mtampea kazi?

Retweet widely kindly

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@staceycutey You'd come over and you'd stay the night?

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@iamjuddah Inheritance tax has been there all along

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@_Yu_gene__ Mursik

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@HarunMbaabu Hi Harun. Please check DM. I would appreciate a feedback on the same. Thank you.

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@_Yu_gene__ Tajiri

[Charlton Athletic FC @CAFCofficial]

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@_Yu_gene__ How many thousands do you have my G

[Dracula😈 @_Yu_gene__]

Been diving into monorepos lately and loving it! I will start building a full-stack app with @expo and @convex , all in one repo with shared code between web and mobile.
@cursor_ai helping through the way
https://t.co/dpVnD7VORr
#buildinpublic

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@_Yu_gene__ Kwani SHA haifanyi

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@_Yu_gene__ Mzee rejection moja isikushtue. Zidi kutuma cold emails.

[Kinoti Joseph @KinotiJoseph]

I’m currently stuck at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), Surgical Ward 4C, and I honestly don’t know what else to do.

The SHA officer handling discharges at the 4D office is very rude, corrupt, and abusive.

Since yesterday, I’ve been waiting in line to have my child discharged.

This officer keeps ignoring the queue and only attends to people she personally calls aside - people she seems to know.

We’ve been here since yesterday, yet she just walks out, brings in others, processes them fast, and leaves the rest of us stranded.

When I politely told her that what she was doing was unfair, she got angry, banged her office door, and later called me in.

Inside, she fined me Ksh 2,070, saying my baby overstayed an extra day after discharge.

I immediately rushed to Malipo Center downstairs and paid the amount, but when I came back, she said she wouldn’t discharge my baby unless I wrote an apology letter to her, stamped by the area Chief!

I never insulted her or caused a scene - I only questioned her favoritism and suspicious behavior. Right now, my baby is being held at KNH just because I refused to bow to corruption and humiliation.

I’m pleading for help. Can the relevant authorities please intervene?

This is unfair, and no parent should go through this kind of frustration when their child is in hospital.

@HonAdenDuale @_shakenya @KNH_hospital @DrMercyHealth @BravinYuri @WilliamsRuto @MigunaMiguna @HEBabuOwino @MikeSonko @edwinsifuna @AokoOtieno_

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@_Yu_gene__ Very united

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3/ Crash recovery:
Power loss? No problem.
WAL replay rebuilds MemTable from disk log.
Zero data loss. That's ACID durability.

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1/ Why LSM trees?
Traditional B-trees optimize for READS but suffer on WRITES (random I/O). LSM trees flip this: optimize WRITES by converting random I/O → sequential I/O. Result: 10-100x better write throughput. Perfect for logs, metrics, time-series data.

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@_Yu_gene__ Kijana kwani kwenu hakuna airpot? Why are you going by road

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@Kivutss @_Yu_gene__ kuja hapa

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

𝗜 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 "𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳" 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆.

I used to talk about my education, experience, and previous companies - just reading out my resume. What a waste of a golden opportunity!

One day, a friend who was interviewing candidates for his team shared something interesting.

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵? 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦.

I started experimenting with different approaches. After many trials and errors, I found what works best.

Now when interviewers ask me to talk about myself, I start with a brief introduction and move to my technical journey:

"I have 11 years of experience, with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure and automation. I've built complex solutions across AWS and GCP, specializing in Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code.

I've successfully implemented large-scale migrations, like automating RDS migrations using Python and PGSync, reducing downtime by 60%. I've built and managed multi-environment EKS clusters using custom Terraform modules, supporting hundreds of microservices.

Recently, I've focused on DevSecOps, implementing comprehensive security scanning using GitHub Advanced Security suite, CodeQL, and Dependabot. I've also built automated monitoring solutions using Grafana and Prometheus that helped detect critical issues before they impacted users."

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀.

The interviewer starts asking questions about Kubernetes, cloud migrations, and security implementations - all areas where I excel!

Instead of getting random questions, I get to talk about my strengths for most of the interview.

Even when they ask about areas I'm not familiar with, I confidently say: "While I haven't worked extensively with that technology, I'm very interested in learning it. My experience with similar tools would help me pick it up quickly."

𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 - 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩𝘴.

Your "𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳" response sets the tone for the entire interview. Use it wisely.

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@_Yu_gene__ Alaa

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@_lennoxomondi I'd use a CDN, WAF, and virtual waiting room to manage surges, with an API gateway directing traffic to stateless services, scaled horizontally. Redis to ensure atomic seat locks, then Postgres to handles orders/payments, and an event bus like kafka to finalize sales reliably.