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Feb 20, 2024 •

Georges El Khoury

January 2024

Overview of the AI landscape

This is an overview of the AI landscape.

Jan 22, 2024 •

Georges El Khoury

July 2023

Enrollment is open - Software Engineering from the Frontlines

Hello everyone,

Jul 1, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

April 2023

March 2023

If you have followed this newsletter for a while, you would notice I usually recommend software engineers pursue a Jerry Maguire “Help me Help you…

Mar 22, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

February 2023

A good unit test

A good unit test should be:

Feb 20, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

Outage Management

Outage management is a core skill for a software engineer to acquire and is critical to achieve high availability of an online service.

Feb 13, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

There is no magic bullet for clean readable code but these are tips that usually overwhelmingly increase code readability.

Feb 9, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

If you have ever seen a great chef cooking, you will see a pattern.

Feb 7, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

January 2023

Often times, software engineers are faced with the prospect of adding new functionalities or checking in new code that seems to be beneficial but are…

Jan 31, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

A sad topic for today: Layoffs.

Jan 15, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

Software Engineering Career Ladders

This is my take on software engineering ladders and what it takes to be promoted from one band to another.

Jan 9, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

How to be a good software tech interviewer

If you find yourself in a team that needs to largely increase in size (happened to me twice at Uber) whether at a big company or a rising startup, you…

Jan 7, 2023 •

Georges El Khoury

November 2022

October 2022

Errors should never pass silently

One my favorite wisdom on coding is the Zen of Python. There is so much experience summarized in them.

Oct 27, 2022 •

Georges El Khoury

August 2022

Glich Podcast with Bassem: Engineering in big tech

Hello everyone,

Aug 6, 2022 •

Georges El Khoury

Starting a new job is exciting.

Aug 2, 2022 •

Georges El Khoury

April 2022

March 2022

Elegant code is hard to put your finger on, describe or quantify.

Mar 28, 2022 •

Georges El Khoury

“10x engineers” exists.

Mar 23, 2022 •

Georges El Khoury

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