Hello Reader, I keep hearing the same concern from people who are considering Solutions Architecture: With AI changing so much of technology, is Solutions Architecture still a good career to pursue? My answer is that AI is definitely changing the role. Let’s go through some of the factors, look at some data, and then come to the conclusion. AI still needs infrastructure When companies build Gen AI applications, they still need compute, storage, networking, security, databases, monitoring,...
about 17 hours ago • 4 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...
1 day ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, GPT-6 Astra scored 99.9% on a benchmark nobody prepared it for. Six months ago, the best model scored 7.8% on that same test. Naturally, the internet declared coding dead and Jensen Huang posted that AGI is here. I went and opened the actual results page from the people who ran that benchmark. There is a second number sitting right there, on the same page. 62.7%. Same model, same benchmark tasks, two different evaluation setups. Nobody is quoting that second number. Here is...
5 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, Next week I will be on stage at AI Engineer (AIE) NYC. Out of all the AI conferences out there, AIE is one of my favorites. The speakers are engineers who have actually shipped AI systems, so the talks cover real-world implementation with all the messy tradeoffs included. You walk out with patterns you can use on Monday morning. Here are the details: Talk: Build a Self-Improving Portable and Secure Second Brain for Your Agents, with a live demo When: Tuesday, October 13th at...
6 days ago • 3 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...
7 days ago • 7 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...
9 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, One job title keeps coming up over and over from people trying to break into AI right now. Forward Deployed Engineer. It sounds impressive and vague at the same time, and most people applying for it do not actually know what it requires. I sat down with Nacho, who has spent 7+ years in the AI industry and works closely with both candidates and companies hiring for these roles, to get a straight answer. Here is what actually matters if you want to become one. Forget the job...
12 days ago • 4 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...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, One of my bootcamp students just landed a Forward Deployed Engineer role at Google. He came from an Oracle Cloud background with AWS knowledge. He doesn't have a PhD, or a master's degree. If you have been staring at FDE job postings feeling underqualified, his path is worth understanding before you count yourself out. Here is the exact breakdown of Google's FDE interview process, straight from Google's own posted description of the role, plus what it takes to actually get...
15 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, There is a version of the AWS Solutions Architect interview living in people's heads right now that stopped existing months ago. If your prep is based on a friend's experience from last year, an old blog post, or a google search which gives few months older info, 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. My student,...
16 days ago • 5 min read