AI Engineering Reading Notes — Chapter 3: Evaluation Methodologies

How do we know an AI application is good enough? Notes on measuring predictions, testing outcomes, comparing answers, and evaluating the judges themselves.

Sep 16, 2026 · 7 min · Mohamed Ayman

AI Engineering Reading Notes — Chapter 2: Understanding Foundation Models

Understanding what shapes a foundation model: the data it learns from, its architecture, how it is trained to answer, and how it selects output tokens.

Sep 15, 2026 · 8 min · Mohamed Ayman

AI Engineering Reading Notes — Chapter 1: Foundation Models

Reading Chapter 1 of AI Engineering: how language models learn, what makes a foundation model useful, and why adapting an existing model is a practical starting point.

Sep 13, 2026 · 6 min · Mohamed Ayman

I Passed the CKAD Exam: What Helped Me Succeed

A personal reflection on passing CKAD through repeated kubectl practice, objective-driven study, documentation, and hands-on Kubernetes labs.

Aug 23, 2026 · 6 min · Mohamed Ayman

I Passed EX280: Red Hat OpenShift Administrator

A personal reflection on passing EX280 through official Red Hat training, objective-driven study, documentation, and hands-on OpenShift practice in my home lab.

Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min · Mohamed Ayman

Install an Additional NVMe SSD in the AOOSTAR GEM10

A practical hardware-to-Proxmox guide for adding a 2 TB Lexar NM790 NVMe SSD to the AOOSTAR GEM10 home-lab server.

Aug 3, 2026 · 8 min · Mohamed Ayman

Road to EX280: Preparing for OpenShift Administration

My EX280 preparation plan combines official Red Hat training and documentation with repeatable OpenShift practice in my Proxmox home lab.

Aug 2, 2026 · 5 min · Mohamed Ayman

Deploy a Single-Node k3s Kubernetes Cluster on Proxmox with kcli

A tested kcli workflow for deploying k3s on Proxmox, with the storage and kubeconfig problems I hit along the way.

Jul 29, 2026 · 9 min · Mohamed Ayman

Install kcli on macOS and Manage Proxmox VMs

A practical guide to running kcli on a Mac, configuring Proxmox API and SSH access, and creating the first VM from a cloud image.

Jul 29, 2026 · 10 min · Mohamed Ayman

Tips for Passing the EX188: Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers

A hands-on preparation guide for EX188 covering Podman muscle memory, rootless containers, systemd integration, and exam-day habits.

Jul 4, 2026 · 4 min · Mohamed Ayman