Building a Full-Stack E-Commerce App in Hours: The Power of AI-Assisted Development How GitHub Copilot and VS Code transformed database-to-deployment development into a seamless experience 🚀 The Challenge: Zero to Production-Ready E-Commerce Today I embarked on an ambitious journey: build a complete e-commerce application from scratch in a single day. No existing codebase, no templates, just... Continue Reading →
GitHub Administration Exam Tips & Tricks
As of January 8th 2024, GitHub's certification Program is now accessible to all customers worldwide, previously it was exclusive to employees and partners. There are currently Four certifications available, which are: GitHub Foundation Certification GitHub Actions Certification GitHub Advanced Security Certification GitHub Administration Certification Last week, I was able to successfully pass the GitHub Administration... Continue Reading →
GitHub Universe 2023: GH is now an AI-Powered Platform for Developers
GitHub Universe 2023, the annual developer conference hosted by GitHub wrapped up last week and it was no short of exciting announcements. Below are a few announcements that caught my eye and that I am really excited about, for a deeper dive, please check out this blog post from GitHub. GitHub Copilot Chat & GitHub... Continue Reading →
Azure AI Engineer Associate – AI-102 Exam tips
It's the time for AI!! Ever since the start of FY24 at Microsoft, I have been trying to ramp up on Azure's AI offerings. After completing the AI foundations certification, I started preparing for the AI-102 and found it to be quite a fun experience. Below are some of my tips around how to prepare... Continue Reading →
Developer Velocity Assessment
"DevOps DevOps DevOps!! We keep hearing this term and, in our journey, to become fully DevOps, we have adopted many different tools, changed a lot of processes but we are still not sure if we are moving ahead or not?" The above statement or some variation of it is something I have been hearing a... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Dev Box vs Github Codespaces
One of the exciting announcements coming out of MS Build 2022 was the Microsoft Dev Box.In an increasingly remote world, where Cloud Computing reigns, it does not make sense anymore to have to own a desktop to be able to perform any intensive development work or have to carry a laptop around that can be... Continue Reading →
A Dream Come True
I still remember when I was around 7 or 8 years old and we managed to get our first PC back in Egypt. It was a used computer running on an Intel Pentium 3 700Mhz, but when the PC eventually booted and I saw the Windows logo for Windows 95 and heard the famous start-up... Continue Reading →
CKA Exam Tips
Introduction As we all are aware, Kubernetes is a rapidly growing product in the DevOps world and it is actually one of the most rare skills out there. Since last year, due to exposure to AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), I wanted to get certified in Kubernetes by getting the CKA certification to be able to... Continue Reading →
Selenium Testing through Azure DevOps
UI testing is an essential component in a Software Development lifecycle and Selenium is one of the tools that help you achieve that. In this post, we will talk about triggering your selenium scripts through Azure DevOps and how you can make your UI tests part of your release pipeline. This blog post will mostly... Continue Reading →
The DevOps journey
I have been working for several years with different customers looking to transform their digital strategy and adopt the correct DevOps mindset. If you ask me what is the single one thing that stands out, I would say that just like anything else worthwhile, it is not about the end-goal but it is about the... Continue Reading →