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#31 Documenting Software Architecture using C4 Model
Software architecture is a dynamic system that evolves over time.
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
#30 Six Traits That Make a Great Founding Engineer
Traits That I Find Most Important In a Founding Engineer
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
#27 Why Everyone Is Talking About Vibe Coding
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, introduced a new term called vibe coding to describe how developers can guide an LLM to solve a problem by…
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
#26 When to Pay Down Tech Debt
Handling technical debt is a recurring subject among software engineering teams.
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#20 Time To Use Ollama
By now you’ve heard last week’s news about the AI startup DeepSeek releasing its open-source model DeepSeek-R1, which outperforms OpenAI’s ChatGPT-o1…
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
#19 How To Write Better Developer Docs
People who’ve worked with me before know that I’m a documentation enthusiast.
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#13 What Three Years At Faculty Taught Me About Intrapreneurship
Back in 2021, I was working at Dell Technologies as part of a newly established team focused on researching and developing AI solutions.
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#6 Developing Product Thinking
A customer-centric approach to driving tech innovations
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
#4 Fall in Love with The Problem, not The Tech
Back in June 2024, I attended a talk at London Tech Week by Steve Blank, author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. He discussed the future of…
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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