What Does an “AI-Focused” Interview Usually Mean for a Cloud Administrator?
I have an upcoming technical interview for a cloud role at a company focused on security and posture management. I currently work as a cloud administrator, and I…
AI infrastructure
What Could Make Multiple AI Services Go Down at the Same Time?
I was testing four different large language model services this morning, and all of them stopped working at almost exactly the same time. A normal traffic spike seems…
What could make several unrelated AI services fail at the same time?
I was experimenting with four different large language model services this morning, and all of them stopped working at almost exactly the same time. A time-of-day traffic spike…
How Much AI Knowledge Does a DevOps Engineer Really Need?
AI tools and architectures seem to be showing up everywhere, including RAG, LangGraph, vector databases, agents, and MCP servers. For people who have worked in DevOps for several…
How do you stay sane while building serious AI systems instead of simple wrappers?
Every weekend, someone seems to launch a "revolutionary" AI product that is essentially a few hours of API integration wrapped in a polished template. Meanwhile, I'm spending weeks…
How Can I Grow From DevOps Implementation to Infrastructure at Scale?
I have about four years of experience as a DevOps engineer—two years at a large company and two at a startup. I've worked with AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes,…
Why is GPT-5.6 so slow on Azure?
GPT-5.6 was released a few days ago, and I tried running it through Azure because I have substantial platform credits available. The model initially produced output at roughly…