Crafting Thoughts

You Should Stop Lying On Your Resume

A rant about how lying about your job hurts you personally.

Aug 27 • 

Adham Ehab

July 2025

Engineering Growth: Trees Grow Better in Forests

In Ted Lasso, Coach Beard (the best character, fight me 😜) drops this wisdom:

Jul 19 • 

Adham Ehab

May 2025

Learning

Over the years, I've developed a personal learning system that has served me well.

May 24 • 

Adham Ehab

March 2025

Predictability is the Key For Maintainable Systems

There’s often a belief that working on a great product means constantly solving exciting and novel problems.

Mar 10 • 

Adham Ehab

The Lost Art of Writing Great Log Messages

When everything is running smoothly, log messages often go unnoticed.

Mar 9 • 

Adham Ehab

Understanding Kubernetes health probes

One of the most common pitfalls that I saw people fall into when they start working with K8s is having a misconfigured health probe that prevents the…

Mar 6 • 

Adham Ehab

January 2025

Engineering Growth: Moving Beyond Execution

Listening to people talking about their career is such a joy.

Jan 27 • 

Adham Ehab

Software Philosophy - Part I: Domain Driven Design

In 2019, I was part of the Statsbomb team and the company was really taking off with it's football collection and analytics platform.

Jan 14 • 

Adham Ehab

December 2024

Quiet Leadership: Lessons from Carlo Ancelotti's Book

For some time now I wanted to write a book review on Mr.

Dec 15, 2024 • 

Adham Ehab

Cloud Native Service Accounts

Last week, I had a talk with one of my mentees and we touched on some authentication concepts.

Dec 12, 2024 • 

Adham Ehab

November 2024

Notes on Database ( Part 3 ) - Multi-Version Concurrency Control

Introduction

Nov 5, 2024 • 

Adham Ehab

August 2024

Notes on Database ( Part 2 ) - Transactions, Concurrency and Isolation Levels

Introduction

Aug 26, 2024 • 

Adham Ehab