+ There's a difference between knowing how systems work in theory and building them in production. I've spent the last 3 years learning this difference the hard way—first at AWS, then at RBC, and now at home. +
++ This is the story of how I learned distributed systems by owning every layer: from workflow orchestration to hardware networking, from GitOps to AI agents. +
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