Muhammed Nasvih V · Writing
The Stack Notes
Field notes on infrastructure, AI, money and work.
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63 pieces, written in plain language, grouped into 6 running series. There is no order to follow and no prerequisites — every piece stands on its own, so start wherever the topic interests you.
- Tech Series13 parts
DevOps from the ground up: servers, cloud, networking, outages, pipelines, security incidents and system design.
- AI Series21 parts
AI put to work: prompts, tool choice, building your own setup, agents, and where the money and power are going.
- Finance Series12 parts
Money from first principles: mindset, saving, gold and silver, the stock market, mutual funds and SIPs.
- Workplace Series4 parts
How tech teams really operate: the gap between hiring and doing, and why documentation is leverage.
- Learning in Action7 parts
The personal log: part-time jobs, FundUp, and freelancing from the first client to closing the chapter.
- Standalone6 pieces
Pieces that belong to no series: the orientation post, career moves, a product write-up and one-off arguments.
New here? Read This Post First — New here? A short guide to the five series running on this page — pick whatever topic catches your eye.
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Contents
Series indexEvery piece, grouped by series and ordered so a run reads start to finish. Standalone pieces are grouped too — nothing is left out.
Tech Series
13 partsDevOps from the ground up: servers, cloud, networking, outages, pipelines, security incidents and system design.
- 01Why DevOps (And What It Really Is)
- 02Zero to 100: Servers, Cloud, and Networking Foundations
- 03Cloud Under Fire: What Every Tech Leader Must Learn
- 04Why Big Tech Companies Still Go Down
- 05The Silent War Happening Inside Every Tech Company
- 06The Internet Was Never Designed to Be This Big
- 07Why the World's Most Expensive Software Keeps Failing
- 08AI Is Inside Your Pipeline. Most Teams Run It Wrong.
- 09The Japanese WordPress Hack: Zero To 100
- 10VPN: What It Is, Who It's Actually For
- 11Why "Full-Stack" Stopped Being Optional
- 13What Is System Design And Why You Should Care
- 14Losing Your Data Is The One Bug You Can Never Fix
AI Series
21 partsAI put to work: prompts, tool choice, building your own setup, agents, and where the money and power are going.
- 01AI Gives Everyone New Opportunities
- 02What AI Really Is
- 03The Power of Prompts
- 04Prompt Structure and Real Examples
- 05How to Pick the Right AI Tool
- 06Combine AI Tools Like a Digital Team
- 07Build Your Own AI System (No Coding Needed)
- 08Think Like AI
- 09Staying Updated in AI
- 10The Future of AI and How It Changes Our Work
- 11How Small Businesses and Freelancers Can Use AI
- 12From ML to Agents: How AI Actually Evolved
- 13Build a Website for Free Using AI (Zero Experience Needed)
- 14GPT-6 Just Landed. The Model War Isn't About Chatbots
- 15AI Agents Are Taking Over Enterprise Workflows
- 16$242 Billion Went Into AI in One Quarter
- 17AI Now Performs at Expert Level in 44 Professions
- 18AI Is Consuming More Power Than Countries
- 19From "I Need A Website" To "My Website Is Live" With AI
- 20AI Coding Fails Without Design First
- 21How to Vibe Code Properly in This Era
Finance Series
12 partsMoney from first principles: mindset, saving, gold and silver, the stock market, mutual funds and SIPs.
- 01Finance and Money Mindset
- 02Balancing Spending, Saving and Growth
- 03Why You Need Investments
- 04Gold as an Investment
- 05Silver as an Investment
- 06What Is the Stock Market?
- 07Types of Earnings from Stocks
- 08What You Can Do in the Stock Market
- 09How to Choose Stocks
- 10Mutual Funds and ETFs: Investing Without Picking Stocks
- 11How to Choose the Right Mutual Fund for SIP
- 12Why Finance Should Be for Everyone
Workplace Series
4 partsHow tech teams really operate: the gap between hiring and doing, and why documentation is leverage.
Learning in Action
7 partsThe personal log: part-time jobs, FundUp, and freelancing from the first client to closing the chapter.
- 01Starting the Learning in Action Series
- 02FundUp: How a Simple Idea Became a Finance Community
- 03Before Freelancing: What Part-Time Jobs Taught Me
- 04Why I Didn't Start Freelancing Earlier
- 04From a Simple Idea to 15+ Freelance Clients
- 05Freelancing Lesson: Clarity, Quality, and Trust
- 06Closing the Freelance Chapter: What It Actually Taught Me
Standalone
6 piecesPieces that belong to no series: the orientation post, career moves, a product write-up and one-off arguments.
By series
Filter the archiveDevOps from the ground up: servers, cloud, networking, outages, pipelines, security incidents and system design.
Losing Your Data Is The One Bug You Can Never Fix
A bug in your code is a bad day. A wiped database can end the business — and a backup you have never restored is a guess, not a…
What Is System Design And Why You Should Care
No jargon, just straight talk — system design is deciding what to protect before you touch the keyboard.
Why "Full-Stack" Stopped Being Optional
AI closed the 'I don't know this language' gap. Now full-stack range without real depth is a liability, not a strength.
VPN: What It Is, Who It's Actually For
Not the privacy shield the ads sell you. A VPN is real infrastructure, built for secure remote access at work.
The Japanese WordPress Hack: Zero To 100
Most WordPress owners find out they're hacked from Google, not from an alert. Here's the full breakdown.
Why the World's Most Expensive Software Keeps Failing
A single reused line of code destroyed a $370 million rocket. That pattern never really stopped.
AI put to work: prompts, tool choice, building your own setup, agents, and where the money and power are going.
How to Vibe Code Properly in This Era
Vibe coding works. Opening an AI tool on day one does not. Earn the right to hand the agent more of the work.
AI Coding Fails Without Design First
Same model, two prompts. One leaves every decision to guesswork, the other is a small system design — and that gap is the whole…
From "I Need A Website" To "My Website Is Live" With AI
AI platforms are moving from places where you ask questions to platforms where you build complete products.
GPT-6 Just Landed. The Model War Isn't About Chatbots
Three frontier labs shipped three breakthrough models in one month. The competition has moved from who writes best to who can act.
AI Is Consuming More Power Than Countries
Training and running AI at scale now demands gigawatts most people never think about — and the industry stays quiet on it.
$242 Billion Went Into AI in One Quarter
In Q1 2026, AI startups absorbed 81% of all global VC funding. This is not a bubble story, it is a capital reallocation story.
Money from first principles: mindset, saving, gold and silver, the stock market, mutual funds and SIPs.
Why Finance Should Be for Everyone
This series was never about SIPs or gold — it's about the fact that most people enter adulthood without ever learning how money…
How to Choose the Right Mutual Fund for SIP
Choosing the right mutual fund comes down to three things: goal, timeline, and risk. Here's the simple, practical breakdown.
Mutual Funds and ETFs: Investing Without Picking Stocks
Not everyone wants to study balance sheets or track charts. Mutual funds and ETFs let you own a diversified basket of…
What Is the Stock Market?
Most people hear 'stock market' and think risky or complicated. The truth is simpler: it's just a way to buy a piece of a…
Types of Earnings from Stocks
Owning a stock is like owning a small piece of a business. Here are the three ways that ownership actually pays you.
What You Can Do in the Stock Market
Once you understand what the stock market is, the next step is knowing how to participate. Different strategies fit different…
How tech teams really operate: the gap between hiring and doing, and why documentation is leverage.
How Small IT Decisions Create Big Business Profit
My first month at Code7 was IT administration, not the DevOps I moved for. It taught me what one dollar per seat is actually…
Managers Are The Bridge, Not The Boss
Nobody claps for the manager who prevented the fire. The title was never about authority — it is about standing between two sides.
Documentation Is Not Overhead, It's Leverage
Why writing things down is the highest-leverage habit a technical team can build.
The Hiring Gap Theory
So many people are looking for jobs, so many companies are looking for candidates — why isn't it matching?
The personal log: part-time jobs, FundUp, and freelancing from the first client to closing the chapter.
Closing the Freelance Chapter: What It Actually Taught Me
Freelancing was never about scaling big. It was one part of life, and it taught lessons that mattered more than any project.
Freelancing Lesson: Clarity, Quality, and Trust
If you are not clear about what you do, others will define you incorrectly. Here is how I priced work and built trust without…
From a Simple Idea to 15+ Freelance Clients
It started in late 2021 with one question: why do so many small businesses still lack a proper online presence?
Why I Didn't Start Freelancing Earlier
I learned web design in 7th grade and never feared technology again. But early exposure alone was not enough, continuity was…
Before Freelancing: What Part-Time Jobs Taught Me
Nine part-time jobs between 2019 and 2021 — cashier, SIM seller, delivery rider, caterer, tutor — taught lessons no classroom…
FundUp: How a Simple Idea Became a Finance Community
A casual suggestion during college fest planning grew into a student-run finance club whose first session drew 150+ attendees.
Pieces that belong to no series: the orientation post, career moves, a product write-up and one-off arguments.
Read This Post First
New here? A short guide to the five series running on this page — pick whatever topic catches your eye.
Most Companies Aren't IT Companies — But They Run On IT
A client came to us for PDPL consulting. We found SAR 3,500 a month in infrastructure nobody had shut down.
Varumo: A Wedding Website Product Done Right
"Varumo" means "will you come?" in Malayalam — and the product built around that one word is sharp.
A New Beginning at Code7
Starting a new chapter in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as an IT Specialist focused on DevOps and development at Code7.
Joining Vahmine as a Junior DevOps
Stepping into a Junior DevOps role at Vahmine Technologies, working on Toolyt and Acadle.
Building Old School Games
A small nostalgia project — classic browser games like Tetris, Pong, and Minesweeper, built from scratch with HTML, CSS, and…
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