Journey & Thoughts
From pastry to DevOps, lessons learned, mistakes made, and technical reflections.
The App I Didn't Code
I designed an aquarium app without writing a line of its code. What it taught me about product, business model, and architecture.
My AI Harness
People always ask what prompt I use. The real answer: it's not the prompt that matters, it's the frame I give the AI.
I Was the SPOF
During my internship, an incident made me realize I was a single point of failure. How documentation stopped me from being one.
The Day I Took Down Production
During my internship, I took down an internal tool by changing something else. What the incident taught me about hidden dependencies and rollbacks.
Keeping the Controls When AI Codes
AI wrote part of my site. How I work with it without delegating my judgment: understand, decide, verify.
Weekly Tech Radar: Automating My Tech Watch With AI, and Staying the Engineer
300 articles filtered into a 10-min read each week by an AI, with me keeping control. Making-of, and what the crash taught me.
My Learning System: Obsidian + Claude
A DevOps learning system built around a GitHub repo, Obsidian, and Claude. Concrete workflow, guidelines to avoid AI dependence.
How I Landed My Internship at Alan: Python Learned in 10 Days
Python learned in 10 days, 4-stage process, what I took from it after failing at Criteo.
How I Failed My Criteo Interview
Algo-only technical interview over video call. CV, preparation, format, honest take on a failed interview and what I learned.
AWS Infrastructure Automation With Terraform & Ansible
Automated deployment on AWS Free Tier. Terraform, Ansible, Docker Compose, Nginx reverse proxy, hands-on project.
My DevOps Roadmap: What I'm Learning, In What Order, and Why
Learning by layers, honest assessment, priorities and long-term vision.
Glasck: First Launch of a Project Into Production
Docker Compose, Traefik, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and lessons from a real service with real users.
How I Passed the 42 Piscine and Core Curriculum
The piscine, the core curriculum, the key projects: a concrete look back at my journey through 42, what helped me and what I took away from it.
From Pastry to Development, Journey, Doubts and a Career Switch
10 years in pastry, a career switch into tech through 42, and a path toward DevOps. Journey, doubts and determination.