The Curious Engineer

All blogs / Engineering management / careers

Dewan’s Blog

dewanahmed.com

Read about app/data infrastructure, developer advocacy, and my thoughts around a career in tech.

Engineering management / careersDevOps / SRE / infrastructureDatabasesAI / ML

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Posts
33 from 13 Aug 2020 to 7 Oct 2026
Posting
monthly (6 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
Feed
https://www.dewanahmed.com/feed.xml

2026 5

  1. From Cloud-First to AI-First: Productivity-Maxxing or Token-Maxxing?
  2. The Third Reset: Becoming a Developer Advocate in the AI Era
  3. DevRel Is Not Measured Like Other Roles — And That Needs to Change
  4. Your AI doesn’t need your home directory: sandboxing OpenClaw with nono
  5. A Fictional Memo on AI

2025 3

  1. VRAM vs System RAM: What Actually Limits Running LLMs Locally?
  2. llms.txt: Robots.txt for Docs in the AI Era
  3. The Principal Developer Advocate Paradox: Scaling Impact Without Burnout

2024 1

  1. Hosting a (DevOpsDays) Tech Conference

2023 6

  1. Connecting the dots: Let’s get ship done!
  2. Going Beyond ‘Do You Know Of Any Open Positions?’
  3. Identity Crisis - A Tale of DevRel
  4. How to install PostgreSQL client psql on macOS, Linux (Ubuntu), and Windows?
  5. MeetUps - an underrated tech job board
  6. Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText - a tale of docs-as-code

2022 9

  1. Why are we paying these folks - a tale of DevRel
  2. ripgrep - an extremely fast grep alternative
  3. Let’s NOT have a beer
  4. StackConf 2022 Conference - Reflection
  5. Coach yourself - how long should the resume be?
  6. Principles and patterns - A tale of infrastructure as code
  7. Dewan learns Kafka - Let’s talk to Kafka
  8. Dewan learns Kafka - architecture principles and recent changes
  9. Dewan learns Kafka - Basics

2021 5

  1. 10 steps to a better Dockerfile
  2. Dear tech recruiters,
  3. How to write an amazing resume summary statement
  4. How to get involved with Open Source
  5. 7 OpenShift Questions and 8 Answers

2020 4

  1. When to go K8s-native - a tale of CI/CD servers
  2. Stability comes from making changes - A tale of infrastructure as code
  3. How to make a GitHub issue creator follow your rules?
  4. Five reasons why YOU should consider a career in the software industry