Ghaith Soltani's Recent LinkedIn Posts

AWS is not difficult because there are hundreds of services. It is difficult because you need to understand how those services work together. I recently built a practical AWS Senior Engineering Guide to go deeper than simply launching an EC2 instance. The goal was to understand the architecture behind a production-o…

🚀 Just built and deployed a production-grade distributed URL shortener from scratch — fully containerized and running locally with Docker. Here's what's under the hood: ⚙️ Architecture • 3 Spring Boot instances behind an Nginx load balancer (least-conn) • 2 PostgreSQL shards routing by Base62 character range • Re…

- AI Agents Are Becoming a Cybersecurity Problem — But Is AI Really the Problem? This week, one topic caught my attention: AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of performing cybersecurity tasks autonomously. They can analyze code, search for vulnerabilities, interact with tools, and execute multi-step operati…

I recently finished my first end-to-end machine learning workflow with PyTorch. I didn't want to just follow a tutorial and copy the code. I wanted to understand what happens at each step of a real ML workflow — from preparing the data to saving and loading the trained model. 🔨 What I worked on: • Generated synthet…

Why I stopped trusting our CI/CD pipeline — and what I built instead "We had 100% test coverage. Green builds. Automated deploys to production. And we still shipped a silent data corruption bug that took 11 days to detect." We had 100% test coverage. Green builds. Automated deploys to production. And we still shipp…

Cloud & Multi-Cloud Cloud is not just about choosing AWS or Azure. It’s about building infrastructure that can evolve. As I’m learning DevOps and Cloud, one concept that keeps becoming more important is Multi-Cloud. At first, I thought the goal was simply: Learn AWS → deploy applications → done. But real-world clou…