Research Paper: Building a Modern Data Platform Based on the Data Lakehouse Architecture and Cloud-Native Ecosystem

Finally, after months of hard work, I have published my first research paper in a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal by the international publisher Springer Nature 🙌 The paper is titled: Building a Modern Data Platform Based on the Data Lakehouse Architecture and Cloud-Native...

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How Open Source Helped Me Step Up My DevOps Career - Presentation

2 days ago (20.02.2025), it was a pleasure to participate in the Open Source Summit 2025 in KSA. My session was about participating in Open-source and how it helps to be a better DevOps engineer. In fact, the best DevOps engineers I have encountered possess T-shaped skills that require...

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2024 Highlights

Finally, 2024 is over! Another crazy year but I like it! 🤩 This year was a bit chill compared to previous ones, but also I did many new things. Top 5 highlights in 2024 1. Career In 2022, I formed the Distribution team at Camunda, which is responsible for building and deploying...

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Bootstrap Cloud-Native bootstrappers like Crossplane with K3d - Automation

I created a logo for the Crossplane Bootstrapper because all good projects deserve a logo. 😁 TL;DR Question: How to bootstrap bootstrappers? e.g., Argo CD and Crossplane, etc. Answer: Use K3d (v5.7 and above) with embedded files! Or just use Crossplane Bootstrapper! My...

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Gomplate v4 is here! - Tools

This year, one of my nice discoveries was gomplate, a fast template renderer supporting many data sources and hundreds of functions. And finally, gomplate v4 was released in June 2024. It has many excellent new features and additions (v3 was released in 2018!). I will...

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Do NOT use unpackaged Helm charts! - DevOps

TL;DR Don't install/template from unpackaged Helm charts directly because Helm CLI has many bugs related to packaging and dependencies, especially bug no. helm/helm #11484 and you will get unexpected behavior....

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2023 Highlights

Image generated with Craiyon. Finally, 2023 is over! What a year! One more crazy year, but it was the culmination of many actions I've started previously. Starting with the fun facts ... this is the post no. 100! After 9 years of tech blogging in English (I had another...

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Become a DevOps Engineer with the Dynamic DevOps Roadmap - Career

A couple of months ago, I discussed why all linear DevOps learning roadmaps are broken by default (like roadmap.sh/devops)! In that post, I've discussed the issue, where it comes from, and the solution I tried for over 5 years! The solution is simply switching to an MVP-style learning roadmap...

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DevOps is not only a culture - Discussion Panel

Today is my second session JobStack 2023 after my previous one yesterday titled "Platform Engineering: Manage your infrastructure using Kubernetes and Crossplane", but this time it was a discussion panel with Ahmad Aabed (CTO of Zyda). For a long time, DevOps methodologies have...

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