Going Up 🚀 – Kicking Off the Blog
- Meta
- June 22, 2025
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A quick hello đź‘‹
Every developer reaches a point where the notes folder, the pile of Craft/Trello/Notion pages and the “one day I’ll publish this” snippets begin to creak under their own weight. This blog is me finally hitting the publish button.
I called the kickstart post “Going Up” because pressing that elevator button is the smallest possible action that commits you to motion. The doors are closing—let’s rise.
Who am I, anyway?
- Day job: Backend engineer at MaxAB, wrangling micro-services that move groceries across Egypt.
- Fuel: Double-shot espresso (don’t judge), with literal Nile water running outside the office window and old J-pop music.
- Why I write: Teaching shakes bugs out of your mental cache. If a concept can survive the odyssey from brain → keyboard → RSS feed, it’s probably solid.
What you can expect here
| Theme | Sample Topics in the Pipeline |
|---|---|
| Resilient Backends | High-level and low-level system design topics • Communications protocols like grpc and graphql |
| Data & Storage | Database concurrency • Query optimization • Database internals |
| Observability | Prometheus → Grafana the painless way • Structured logging patterns |
| Dev Life | Debug-driven learning • Balancing night-owl coding with sunrise stand-ups • Opinion posts |
| “Coffee Break” Reads | Architecture tales, book notes, snippets that amused me |
Publishing rhythm: Fortnightly. Short, focused, field-tested.
My first promise: keep it human
- No copy-pasted docs.
- Attaching diagrams as I could to help clear the ideas.
- Honest root cause when things explode.
Call to action
- Subscribe (see that fancy newsletter box below). I’ll never spam—just one concise email per post.
- Say hi on Twitter or LinkedIn. What topics burn the most CPU cycles in your head?
- Ship something. Close the tab, write a test, refactor a nasty switch-case. Then return and tell me how it went.
Until next time…
I appreciate you taking this quick ride in the backend elevator with me. The doors are opening, but the learning never stops.
Onward and upward!
" “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take — Wayne Gretzky” — Michael Scott “ — Mohab Mohamed