Jun 29, 2026
Why "Rules Evaluated: 0" Is an Architecture Smell
Decision systems need explainability: audit logs, rule traces, and counters. When you cannot tell why the answer was what it was, that is the real bug.
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Implementation notes & product lessons
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Jun 22, 2026
ACK, RETRY, DROP: Designing Batch APIs That Survive Bad Networks
All-or-nothing batch endpoints fail badly on mobile and event ingestion. Per-item results - acknowledge, retry, or drop - make clients resilient.
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Jun 15, 2026
Idempotency Keys Are Not Just for Payments
External event ingestion, retries, and duplicate submissions all need idempotency. Here is how to design the keys, the storage, and the race handling.
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Jun 8, 2026
Shadow Mode Is the Most Underrated Feature Flag
Running new logic in monitor-only mode before you enforce it lets you compare outcomes against production safely - the calmest way to ship risky changes.
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Jun 1, 2026
Why Your Worker Needs Its Own Architecture, Not Just process.env.WORKER=true
Splitting an app into API and worker with a single env flag looks clean until idempotency, retries, poison jobs, and deploy shape force a real boundary.
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May 25, 2026
Why "Tenant ID Everywhere" Is Not Enough for Multi-Tenant Isolation
Adding a tenantId column is the easy part. The real isolation bugs hide in auth context, API keys, background jobs, queues, webhooks, and admin bypasses.
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Mar 8, 2026
REST vs WebSockets vs MQTT: Choosing the Right Protocol for your Projects
A practical decision framework for selecting communication protocols in IoT systems, based on real project trade-offs across latency, reliability, and infrastructure complexity.
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Mar 2, 2026
How I Rebuilt My Portfolio for SEO with Next.js
Why I moved from a Vite SPA to a statically exported Next.js App Router portfolio and what changed in metadata, architecture, and content strategy.
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Mar 1, 2026
How I Actually Use AI Tools as a Software Engineer
A practical breakdown of where AI tools genuinely help in day-to-day engineering work, where they fall short, and how to use them without losing your edge.
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Feb 10, 2026
Engineering Lessons from Data and IoT Product Work
Three practical patterns I keep applying across analytics systems, cloud workflows, and embedded integrations.
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May 14, 2024
Design Patterns in Embedded Development: A Practical Approach
A practical embedded-systems write-up on why design patterns matter for maintainability, testability, and safer feature growth.
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Apr 19, 2024
C++ Project Template with CMake and VSCode
How I structured a reusable C++ template to help learners and professionals start projects with a clean, maintainable baseline.
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Mar 18, 2024
Rebuilding the GF3 Licenser Desktop App with Flutter
A recap of rebuilding a desktop licensing application with Flutter and improving delivery through strong collaboration and UI support.
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Aug 27, 2023
IoT Solution Design Talk at AUC (Made In Egypt 2023)
Sharing practical IoT solution-design concepts with students and professionals at AUC during the Made In Egypt event.
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May 28, 2023
Throwback: Introduction to IoT Session at HTI
A look back at delivering an Intro to IoT session at HTI in collaboration with IEEE HTI OCT SB.
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May 19, 2023
Maze-Solver Robot: pi-bot
A throwback to a 2021 internship robotics project, focused on firmware logic and algorithmic navigation behavior.
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