Hello Reader, Most freshers struggle to land one solid offer in this market. Will landed AWS, an FBI internship, and a full-time offer at Scale AI before turning 21. He did not go to a Ivy League school. What he had was a system, and he started running it in his first two months of freshman year. Here is what that system actually looked like. Starting early is not a cliche, it is the entire strategy Will started networking for AWS in September of his freshman year, one month into college. He...
6 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Anthropic announced that future Claude AI models will embed machine-readable invisible watermarks directly into generated text. We all know about watermark on the images - it's some faint logo, text, signature on the image background or an attribute in image metadata. This prevents someone copying and using the an original image as their own. BUT, how can a text have watermark? Text is just text, and moreover if you copy text from model output to notebook to LinkedIn, how can...
14 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, If you want to join but haven’t made up your mind yet, this is the last chance to do so. There are less than 10 spots available. Because this program includes direct support from Raj, spots are limited - once they're gone, they're gone. Claim my spot before it's gone This bootcamp works, as proven by previous bootcampers and mentees getting jobs at top companies, FAANG, and other cloud roles, even when coming from non SA backgrounds. As a quick recap, here's what joining this SA...
24 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, I just unveiled the SA Bootcamp. The bootcamp covers everything you need to become an SA in as little as 3 months and, spoiler alert, its not just technical. This Bootcamp is a one of its kind because iit's taught by a Top SA working on world class projects. And good news - it already worked for last cohort's students who secured cloud jobs in top FAANG companies, and some of them didn't even have cloud experience 💰. This SA bootcamp offers… a proven blueprint for the fastest...
25 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Are you thinking about becoming an AWS Solutions Architect and working at top companies? Data shows that Solution Architects earn between $200,000/year and $500,000+/year (screenshots below). The demand for AWS Solutions Architects has never been higher and will continue to rise because there are literally trillions of dollars worth of projects currently running on legacy technologies that need to be migrated to the cloud. When looking into becoming an SA it's really common to...
27 days ago • 1 min read
Quick heads up - registration for the free Cohort 9 SA Bootcamp launch workshop is full. Zoom has a hard attendee cap, and once we hit it, no one else gets in. No exceptions. If you registered, your spot is not guaranteed until you're actually in the room. Join at least 10-15 minutes early to make sure you get in before the room locks. 📅 Aug 1st, 12 PM ET (Eastern Time) 👉 You should have the meeting invite in your calendar already. Just in case you deleted it, here is the registration link 👇...
28 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Most people preparing for an AWS Solutions Architect interview are using outdated information. The process has changed significantly, and if you are preparing based on what worked two years ago, you are preparing for the wrong interview. I am a former L7 Principal SA at AWS who have conducted hundreds of interview, and I have helped many of my students crack Big tech interviews, including at AWS. Here is the updated process. The online assessment is not optional for most people...
29 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, Six months ago, an interviewer asking about Gen AI was a bonus round. Today it is standard. At AWS, Microsoft, Meta, JP Morgan, Verizon, and most large enterprise technology teams, Gen AI questions are showing up in every SA, FDE, and AI engineer interview regardless of the role's primary focus. The candidates who answer these well are not the ones who have read the most blog posts. They are the ones who can connect the concepts to real architecture decisions and explain the...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Hello Reader, This question is getting more popular fast, driven largely by companies worried about sending proprietary data to a model provider. In this edition, we will go over how to self-host it on Kubernetes. Good answer: The agent code itself is straightforward. Containerize it, push it to Amazon ECR, and run it as a pod. The model is the hard part. A model has two pieces: the model image, containing the tokenizer and configuration, and the model weights, which for an 80 billion...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Are you thinking about becoming an AWS SA, and getting yourself a salary boost - maybe still in 2026? The demand for AWS Solutions Architects has never been higher, cloud computing already crossed $723 billion in 2025 and is projected to top $1 trillion by 2027, accelerated by AI (Source: Gartner). SA Bootcamp is developed to be the most direct and guided route to become a Solutions Architect and get a high paying cloud job fast, without wasting time doing it the hard way like...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read