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Muhammad Yawar Malik

Contributing Writer

Muhammad Yawar Malik

Muhammad Yawar Malik is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and IEEE Senior Member recognized for pioneering resilient cloud architectures in high-scale global environments. With a specialized focus on Cloud Reliability, SRE, and AI Security, he has architected critical infrastructure solutions that ensure 99.99% availability for enterprise-grade platforms. A frequent contributor to major technical publications and a Judge for industry-leading awards, Muhammad’s work in automated incident response and chaos engineering has been adopted by engineering teams worldwide. He actively advances the field through his original research on LLM Security and his leadership in defining best practices for modern DevOps reliability.

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The Velocity Trap: Why Shipping Faster Is Making Systems Worse

There is a particular flavour of engineering dysfunction that looks, from the outside, like peak performance. Deployments are frequent. Sprint velocity is high. The feature backlog is shrinking. Leadership is pleased. And underneath all of it, the system is quietly rotting. Technical debt compounds with every rushed deployment. Observability gaps widen because nobody has time […]

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AI

Agentic CI/CD is Not Automation: Why the Distinction Will Define DevOps in 2026

There is a dangerous conflation happening across our industry right now. Teams are plugging LLM-powered agents into their deployment pipelines, calling it “agentic CI/CD,” and treating it as the next logical step after shell scripts and Terraform modules. It is not. Automation executes predefined instructions. An agent reasons about context, makes decisions, and takes actions […]

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AI

Security as Code is Becoming the New Baseline: Continuous Compliance in DevOps

There was a time when compliance meant a quarterly ritual. Someone from security would walk over with a spreadsheet, ask a few questions, tick a few boxes and disappear until the next audit cycle. The infrastructure team would scramble to prove that yes, encryption was enabled, and no, that S3 bucket was not public anymore. Everyone felt relieved, […]

3 min
Cloud Management

From Reactive to Predictive: Capacity Planning Systems That Actually Work

I used to think capacity planning was about setting up CloudWatch alarms and hoping they’d fire before things broke. Spoiler: that’s not capacity planning—that’s just reactive firefighting with extra steps. Real capacity planning means knowing you’ll need more database capacity three weeks from now, not three minutes after your site starts timing out. It means […]

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AI

SRE in the Age of AI: What Reliability Looks Like When Systems Learn

As AI and ML become core production components, SRE is evolving from managing deterministic systems to ensuring the reliability of dynamic, learning systems. New metrics, workflows, guardrails and cross-disciplinary practices are redefining reliability in the age of adaptive software.

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