Technical Writing & Industry Insights

Knowledge Sharing Through Technical Excellence

In-depth articles on DevOps practices, cloud architecture patterns, and modern engineering methodologies. Sharing insights from real-world implementations and industry best practices.

My Articles

Practical insights from real-world DevOps implementations.

AI Assisted Development
AI Development
Best Practices 10 min read

AI-Assisted Development: Boosting Productivity Without Sacrificing Quality

Practical techniques for leveraging AI tools in the development lifecycle while maintaining code integrity and technical depth.

ZakaFlow - Containerized data pipeline architecture
DevOps Docker
2024 12 min read

Getting Started with Docker: Lessons from My First Containerized Deployments

Real-world Docker patterns learned from containerizing production applications. Layer caching, multi-stage builds, and service networking explained.

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Career DevOps
2024 10 min read

From Technical Support to DevOps: A Practical Transition Guide

How support experience provides valuable troubleshooting skills and the intentional steps needed to transition into DevOps engineering.

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Development AI
2024 9 min read

AI-Assisted Development: Practical Workflows for Building Faster

Effective prompt patterns, when to use AI vs. write manually, and the review process that ensures code quality and understanding.

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Development Payments
2023 11 min read

M-Pesa API Integration for Kenyan Applications

Complete guide to integrating M-Pesa payments including sandbox setup, callback handling, error management, and UX considerations.

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Tutorial Education
2022 15 min read

Computer Packages Practical Tutorial Guide

Comprehensive guide covering Microsoft Office, graphic design basics, and networking fundamentals with real-world scenarios for local businesses.

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Interactive Code Playground

Edit and experiment with Docker, configuration files, and scripts. This is a demonstration playground for learning purposes.

Dockerfile
Terminal Output
$ Ready. Select an example and click "Simulate Deploy"

DevOps Learning Roadmap

My structured learning path from fundamentals to advanced DevOps practices. Current progress: 65%

Linux Fundamentals

Command line, file systems, permissions, package management

Completed

Networking Basics

TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, firewalls, troubleshooting

Completed

Containerization with Docker

Dockerfiles, Docker Compose, container networking, volumes

85%
In Progress

Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Pods, services, deployments, configuration, Helm basics

Next Up

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

AWS resource provisioning, modules, state management

Planned

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, logging, alerting, performance metrics

Planned