Yazid's Blog

8 Annoying Insects of Software Architecture

Posted on August 6, 2023

For some reason I remembered the Dangerous Animals of Product Management today and kept wondering what a similar concept would look like for software architecture/architects. That prompted a whole sequence of memories from my previous roles, where I had to deal with multiple, sometimes great, sometimes annoying software architects. Going... [Read More]

Tags: software_engineering

Unmasking Overlooked Essentials: Simplicity, Cost, and Team Compatibility in Software Architecture

Posted on August 7, 2022

Designing software architectures is a widely covered topic by now, from lengthy books to quick Youtube videos and Medium posts. The process usually looks like this: [Read More]

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The Architectural Thinking Behind Full Stack Serverless

Posted on September 8, 2021

I created this presentation to provide a short introduction and overview of the interest of full stack serverless architectures over classic self-managed self-hosted ones. It discusses the tradeoffs and some fallacies. [Read More]

Tags: software_engineering

Introduction To DevOps

Posted on January 17, 2021

I created this presentation to provide a short introduction and overview of resources to learn more about DevOps. [Read More]

Tags: software_engineering

Software Engineering: why it is more than coding, and why it is necessary

Posted on December 15, 2019

I just created this presentation to summarize software engineering’s motivations and practice areas. [Read More]

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Building A Gaming PC For Absolute N00bs In 2019

Posted on July 28, 2019

Being a Software Engineer, I have always known all there is to know about software, UI, OS tweaks, and all that fun stuff. I only worried about hardware when it came to minimum requirements to run games or other tools. [Read More]

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Deployment and Operations for Software Engineers

Posted on May 17, 2019

Happy to receive my copy of Len Bass and John Klein’s new book, “Deployment and Operations for Software Engineers”, which I had the pleasure of reviewing prior to publication. [Read More]

Tags: software_engineering

3 raisons d'arrêter de tirer la sonnette d'alarme pour la fuite des cerveaux

Posted on March 8, 2019

Guide des responsables “choqués” “Tirer la sonnette d’alarme”, “exprimer l’inquiétude”, “reporter les chiffres choquants”, etc. à en croire notre gouvernement (et tous les gouvernements qui l’ont précédé pour être honnête), on ne peut pas répondre autrement aux conséquences terribles de ce qu’on adore appeler “la fuite des cerveaux”. J’aime comparer... [Read More]

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The Real Value of a Degree

Posted on August 11, 2017

**This is an up [Read More]

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Why Fulbright Matters: A Subjective Account of Randomly Consistent Facts

Posted on June 10, 2017

Being the good old procrastinating developer who has 10 million ideas none of which is finished and most of which are not even started, I’ve been trying to write an article about the Fulbright program, my experience as a Fulbright scholar so far and some thoughts about its value. But... [Read More]

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