Internal OpenSource
OpenSource software has been out there for quite a long time, the idea of people around the world volunteering part of their time to work on free software is very exciting, but also maintaining those projects is very hard. Keeping everyone on the same page so that there's no duplicated …
A Consultancy Story
About 8 months ago I was contacted by someone who needed a software project, the requirements were clear and simple enough for the most part, but it had a huge field operations component and it required the software to provide real time metrics to the operations teams about what was …
Which languages should I learn?
There are millions of articles and blog posts out there trying to tell you what to learn next or which language or technologies are worth your attention, things like Top 10 programming languages or Learn one of these languages and you'll be done with some statistics about language popularity but …
Engage!
I was playing with my daughter the other day, I had work to do but I take breaks every now and then to pay attention and play or watch some episode of her favorite cartoons on Netflix as I mentioned on a previous article. So, I was waiting for the …
Software Engineering
At work, my Engineering Manager asked me to start sharing my knowledge with the rest of the team more often. Of course, we do code reviews and we have some other ways to get the knowledge spread across the team, we have a wiki on confluence, we have tech meetings …
Working from home with kids
I've been hearing and reading about COVID-19 since January 2020, this is the event that changed many people lives, all of a sudden, companies were closed, people were requested to stay at home, many businesses broke and many more are about to. I think one of the most impacted roles …
Working with databases easier
This will be a short article, recently at work I had to build few reports on top of two legacy databases, to be honest, the whole architecture and the way the data is stored, in my opinion, is not optimal, a lot of things need to change but, as usual …
Choreography and Orchestration
On a previous article on microservices, we went through the best practices I've seen, which doesn't mean those are the only ones, it only means that those are the ones I've seen work for me and the ones I've tried.
This time, I would like to focus on Choreography over …
Bye bye dubizzle, hello Careem!
I've been quiet for the last two months, I was a bit busy switching jobs, yes, after more than three years I decided to leave dubizzle, part of the OLX group and one of the biggest brands here in the United Arab Emirates, for reasons I won't discuss in this …
What to do when linux freezes?
Well, we all know that nothing is perfect, not even linux, it sometimes freezes. It has happened to me several times, my solution? well, press and hold the power button and hope for the best.
Well, I was thinking there must be a better way to do it and, like …