Alex Elshamouty
alexelshamouty.bsky.social
Alex Elshamouty
@alexelshamouty.bsky.social
Opinions are my own is a strange thing to say, when are opinions never your own? But yeah, on this page, I just represent myself and not anything I am affiliated with.
Amature powerlifter, night person, and an architect.
Type casting sucks - In films and in programming and in real life.
March 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Second installment of platform anti-patterns - probably one more to go!

alexelsh.nl/posts/platfo...
Platform Engineering Antipatterns: Part 2
A developer platform, or a private cloud? A centre of gravity, or a center of disorder?
alexelsh.nl
March 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
People that read one book at a time.

Whats your secret? Tell me.......
March 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I am sensing some level of increased resentment from engineers towards architects.
And I am not entirely sure it's undeserved.

Honestly when architects spend their time hanging too much in theoretics and vend boxes and arrows as a service then yeah.. engineers will get pissed off...
March 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There is a lot of beauty in a well choreographed system. Somehow I almost hear an ensemble in my head whenever I come across that pattern.

Although some of those ensembles come in a death core metal encoding.. i happen to like that too, so hey 🤷
March 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
First blog post. All beginnings are humble.

I finally managed to allocate sometime and write something. I am usually less interested on the "how to do things right" type of blogs, article or discussions.
March 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Making things look easy is a trait of experts. Simplicity and clarity of thought usually come from deep understanding and experience.
If you approach things from curiosity angel the world usually look like a waterfall of joyful experiences.
February 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Reposted by Alex Elshamouty
I just got blocked by someone one tiktok claiming to be a CTO saying this is why laying off 10% of staff each year is a good thing. It weeds out the ghosts. When I asked if they were bad when hired, or if he turned them bad he blocked me 🤣
December 5, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Whenever in doubt, take your oven with you.
September 26, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Whenever in doubt, add more garlic.
August 9, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Mission success... Not the photo taking though but this was 🧑‍🍳💋
May 2, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Happy morning and a quick reminder not to be Hiroo Onoda!
Dedication can cut both ways 🥸
April 26, 2024 at 7:50 AM
April 22, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Cross fit is literally the only "sport" that integrated being sloppy into their sport.
Like honesty just do 1 strick pull up 🤣 i dare you.
April 4, 2024 at 4:44 PM
🤣
April 2, 2024 at 5:46 PM
I need someone to stop me from buying one of those Samsung Fold phones..
Anyone?
I mean it's already super sexy that you can still use Dex.. and the fact that I am a 90s kid is really not helping with all the memories of the Good old hip Motorola razor...
Fuuuuuuuuu
March 31, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Reposted by Alex Elshamouty
The SkyFeed infrastructure is a bit overloaded, I am currently working on setting up a new query engine server and redirecting some of the traffic there. So everything should be back to normal in about 1 to 2 hours, thanks for your patience!
February 7, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Reposted by Alex Elshamouty
Hackers Feast on Unpatched ActiveMQ! CVE-2023-46604, a critical remote code execution flaw, is back in the spotlight.
thehackernews.com/2024/01/apac...
Update your Apache ASAP or risk ransomware, rootkits, and botnets.
#cybersecurity #hacking
Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited in New Godzilla Web Shell Attacks
alert! Critical vulnerability still being exploited for ransomware, rootkits, and more.
thehackernews.com
January 22, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Project started..
How it is now Vs how it should look soon

#operationstogies #cigarboxguitar
January 27, 2024 at 2:21 PM
@yom.be morning!!
January 15, 2024 at 9:13 AM
One of my favourite Dutch proverbs is "ik zie door de bomen het bos niet meer". Meaning that you don't see the forest because you are too focused on the trees.
I think this is really beautiful, and explains how by focusing on the details "the trees" you won't be able to see the whole "the forest".
September 23, 2023 at 3:45 PM