October 2025 – Bola's Blog

21 October 2025

Cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities expose catastrophic single points of failure

Every major cloud provider maintains centralized control planes that can bring down global operations in minutes, despite claims of distributed architecture. F5 Recent outages from 2023-2025 reveal that AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all share fundamental design flaws where authentication systems, DNS infrastructure, and orchestration layers operate as global single points of failure. Greyhound Research +3 When these systems fail, […]

DevOps/Cloud/Platform Engineering 0 30 min read

21 October 2025

AWS Outage 2025: What Went Wrong & How to Protect Your Business

Imagine waking up on a Monday morning to discover that your company’s entire digital infrastructure has vanished into thin air. Your customers can’t access your website. Your mobile app is dead. Your payment systems are frozen. And worst of all? There’s absolutely nothing you can do about it because the problem isn’t yours—it’s Amazon’s. This nightmare scenario became reality on […]

DevOps/Cloud/Platform Engineering 0 16 min read

18 October 2025

Bitcoin’s Institutional Revolution: What 18% Supply Shift Means for You

Remember when Bitcoin was dismissed as “internet funny money” by Wall Street executives? Those days are definitively over. As of October 2025, we’ve crossed a threshold that seemed unimaginable just a few years ago: institutional entities now control nearly one-fifth of all Bitcoin ever created—that’s 3.8 million BTC worth over $435 billion. But here’s what makes this moment truly unprecedented: it’s […]

Crypto/Web3 0 15 min read

13 October 2025

The Infrastructure Developer Platform Revolution: How AI Transforms Terraform Workflows in 2025

Imagine asking for infrastructure and getting production-ready, policy-compliant Terraform code in minutes instead of days. Not science fiction—this is the reality of AI-powered Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) emerging across enterprises in 2025. But here’s what makes this moment different from the AI hype cycles we’ve weathered before: the technology actually works. I’ve spent the last year deep in the trenches with […]

Artificial Intelligence 0 18 min read

12 October 2025

My First Dive into AI Storytelling: The Crimson Contract

Hey everyone! 👋 If you’re anything like me—a creative soul who’s always doodling ideas in the margins of notebooks or half-formed plots in your phone’s notes app—then buckle up. Today, I’m sharing something super exciting: my very first AI-generated story, crafted with Google’s brand-new Gemini Storybook tool. Yeah, you read that right. I stumbled upon this gem (pun intended) just […]

Artificial Intelligence 0 3 min read

10 October 2025

Cryptocurrency Market Manipulation: Your Complete Retail Investor Protection Framework

Cryptocurrency markets lose $27 billion annually to manipulation schemes. Here’s your comprehensive defense strategy against wash trading, pump-and-dumps, MEV extraction and sophisticated whale manipulation that systematically transfers wealth from retail to sophisticated actors. The $27 Billion Problem You Need to Understand Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth: if you’re trading cryptocurrency without a protection strategy, you’re not competing on a […]

Crypto/Web3 1 15 min read

10 October 2025

The Race Against the Clock: Inside AI Safety’s Most Critical 18 Months

While you were watching ChatGPT write emails and generate images, something far more significant was happening behind the scenes: the world’s leading AI labs quietly assembled the most sophisticated safety evaluation frameworks in history. But here’s the uncomfortable question—are they building fast enough? The Shift Nobody Noticed In March 2024, if you’d asked the average tech-savvy person about AI safety, […]

Artificial Intelligence 0 22 min read

6 October 2025

Building the AI Arena Training Aid: A Vibe Coding Journey

What happens when you combine blockchain gaming, neural networks, and AI-assisted development? One developer’s public journey to solve AI Arena’s training challenges—and what it reveals about the future of rapid prototyping. The Problem That Needed Solving If you’ve spent any time in AI Arena—the blockchain-based fighting game where you train AI-powered NFT fighters instead of controlling them directly—you know the […]

Artificial Intelligence 0 8 min read

6 October 2025

Why Telegram Might Be The Most Important App You’re Not Using (Yet)

A messaging app with a billion users, built by 40 engineers, that has never sold your data, stood up to governments worldwide, and might just be the last bastion of digital freedom. Here’s why Pavel Durov’s Telegram deserves your attention. The Founder Who Said No to $3 Billion (And Meant It) Picture this: You’re 29 years old. You’ve built Russia’s […]

Artificial Intelligence 0 14 min read

4 October 2025

The Design Document Assessment Strategy That Will Accelerate Your DevSecOps Workflow

Why the handover between design and implementation is killing your velocity—and how to fix it with a systematic approach There’s a hidden bottleneck strangling your software engineering projects, and it’s not where you think it is. It’s not in requirements gathering, not in coding, not even in testing. It’s in those critical moments between stages—particularly that treacherous handover from design […]

Tech Tips & How-Tos 0 14 min read

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