The latest articles on Forem by Mohab Abd El-Dayem (@mohabmohamed). https://forem.com/mohabmohamed https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F261337%2Fea168e4e-245f-4322-aae8-28744a69603f.jpeg https://forem.com/mohabmohamed en Mohab Abd El-Dayem Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:49:27 +0000 https://forem.com/mohabmohamed/going-up-launching-mohabdev-a-caffeine-fueled-backend-playground-5fcf https://forem.com/mohabmohamed/going-up-launching-mohabdev-a-caffeine-fueled-backend-playground-5fcf <h2> Hello DEV.To friends! I’m Mohab Abd El-Dayem, backend engineer at MaxAB by day, curious tinkerer by night. After years of stashing tips in private gists and Notion pages, I’ve finally shipped my personal tech blog — <a href="https://www.mohab.dev/blog/we-are-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mohab.dev</a>. </h2> <h2> Why another backend blog? </h2> <ul> <li><p><strong>Field-tested lessons</strong> Every post comes from production incidents, not theory.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Bite-sized reads</strong> Short enough to finish with your coffee, dense enough to bookmark.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Turn the unstructured into structured</strong> by trying to write about topics I know to identify the gaps in my knowledge.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Laying my brick</strong> in the knowledge base in the field, like many awesome articles from awesome people, contributed to who I am now as a software engineer.</p></li> </ul> <h2> What you can expect here </h2> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Theme</th> <th>Sample Topics in the Pipeline</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Resilient Backends</strong></td> <td>High-level and low-level system design topics • Communications protocols like grpc and graphql</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Data &amp; Storage</strong></td> <td>Database concurrency • Query optimization • Database internals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Observability</strong></td> <td>Prometheus → Grafana the painless way • Structured logging patterns</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Dev Life</strong></td> <td>Debug-driven learning • Balancing night-owl coding with sunrise stand-ups • Opinion posts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>“Coffee Break” Reads</strong></td> <td>Architecture tales, book notes, snippets that amused me</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p><em>Publishing rhythm:</em> <strong>Fortnightly</strong>. Short, focused, field-tested.</p> <h2> Subscribe &amp; stay in the loop </h2> <ul> <li><p><strong>RSS</strong> – /index.xml (old-school FTW).</p></li> <li><p><strong>Mailing list</strong> – one concise email every fortnight, no spam.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Comment section</strong> – powered by Giscus; comments are open.</p></li> </ul> <h2> Join me on the ride </h2> <ul> <li><p><strong>Blog:</strong> <a href="https://mohab.dev/blog/we-are-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer">mohab.dev</a></p></li> <li><p><strong>GitHub:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/MohabMohamed/" rel="noopener noreferrer">github.com/MohabMohamed</a></p></li> <li><p><strong>Linkedin:</strong> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohab-abd-eldayem/" rel="noopener noreferrer">linkedin.com/in/mohab-abd-eldayem</a></p></li> </ul> <p>If you enjoyed this launch note, give it a 💖 / 🦄 / clap and drop a comment: <strong>what backend topic do you want me to write about?</strong></p> backend softwareengineering portfolio discuss