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A blog about the development cycle I go through when building my projects.

Hunt for DevOps Roles, Day 5 - Containers, VMs, and Wiring Up GitHub Actions

Planning a Multi-Service App With Docker Compose and CI/CD (Kubernetes Can Wait)
By Mark Truong
Posted on July 15, 2026

Hey everyone, day 5 of hunt for devops. [Read More]
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Hunt for DevOps Roles, Day 4 - What Even Is DevOps?

MinIO, Redis, Presigned URLs, and a Detour Into Ad-Tech
By Mark Truong
Posted on July 12, 2026

Hey everyone, day 4 for hunt for devops engineer, what is devops? [Read More]
Tags:
- devops
- minio
- redis
- s3
- boto3
- object-storage
- caching
- job-queue
- claude-code
- ai-assisted-development
- learning-in-public
- project-devlog
Hunt for DevOps Roles, Day 3 - Tables, Constraints, and Getting Lost in the Sauce

Writing SQL by Hand, Then Watching Claude Code Try to Rewrite My Whole App
By Mark Truong
Posted on July 11, 2026

Hmmm, I think I want to keep watching until creating tables, this is good stuff. Setting up PostgreSQL from scratch, CLI psql commands, seeing the tables, how to create a database. All took me 40 min. [Read More]
Tags:
- devops
- postgresql
- sql
- docker
- psql
- claude-code
- ai-assisted-development
- learning-in-public
- tutorial-hell
- python
- containers
- project-devlog
Hunt for DevOps Roles, Day 2 - Escaping Tutorial Hell

Refactoring the Image Captioning App With Postgres and MinIO
By Mark Truong
Posted on July 10, 2026

Hey everyone, we’re going to escape tutorial hell today. [Read More]
Tags:
- devops
- postgresql
- minio
- docker
- s3
- object-storage
- python
- huggingface
- api
- tutorial-hell
- learning-in-public
- project-devlog
- image-captioning
Failing a DevOps Interview - What I Got Right and What I Got Wrong

On Treating Interviews Like Conversations, Not Tests
By Mark Truong
Posted on July 9, 2026

Hey everyone, I want to talk about how I failed one of my interviews for a Devops Engineer opportunity. [Read More]
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