First of all, I wish you and your family a safe, healthy, and prosperous new year!
Last year was a big change for me, a lot of things happened, between good and bad and all of it is considered as experience.

During the last year I moved to  ‘Paris’ the city of lights, the first months were not easy at all, especially I came in lockdown period and I was away from my family and my love.

Coronavirus made a change in our world, we lost a lot of good people and friends, going out meant the possibility of getting sick,  traveling and visiting family was out of the question because it meant we can infect them.

During the last year, I did not write a lot of articles and that was because a lot of stuff kept me out from writing, but I feel so positive for this year and I’m going to focus on writing.

Some  of the topics  are :

• APIM (API Management )
• API Gateway
• AKS
•  Github
•  Branching Strategies

More than that, one of the things I regret last year is I didn’t have time to read the list of books I had made for 2021, so this year I will make sure to read the list  (started already reading on subways ride on my way to work using the Lithium: EPUB Reader ).
Last but not least, i’m definitely going to work on my youtube channel .

10k views on 2021 :

Well Even though I did not write that much last year, my blog posts hit 10 thousand views !!

As you can see in the picture below 10,816 View and the top post with almost 3k views is DevOps : Deploy infrastructure using Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines  .

Writing about the things I face at work or I have recently learned is one of the good habits I have been doing and when writing about this stuff I feel like I’m helping others in my own way, yeah, I hope someone could benefit from it.

TRIP To Turkey

For the first time in my life, I decided to take a long break from work, 2  full weeks in another country with my friends and it was the greatest thing I did last year!

2 weeks without a laptop and technology while discovering a very beautiful country.

Without a doubt, Turkey is one of the world’s hottest tourist destinations.

Istanbul is so gorgeous and I was super impressed by the beauty and diversity of the country.

Turkish people are known for their profound hospitality and spending time with them is a truly valuable lesson in genuine human relationships. You’ll always be invited over to someone’s house for a delicious meal or at least a few glasses of Turkish tea and something sweet.

Turkish cuisine is much more than tasty kebabs and baklava; it includes fresh seafood and meze, a whole world of desserts, huge breakfast spreads,  vegetable dishes, and much more.

Turkey also has a lot of fantastic museums that have been preserving Islamic and Turkish culture for decades.

Some of the pictures of my last trip :

Books already Read :

Wonder

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face

It Ends with Us

Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up

— she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be “positive” all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

The Hate U Give

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer.

Bright Minds Empty Souls

Bright Minds Empty Souls is for the hopeless romantics and those who need a friend to comfort their late night thoughts. It’s a book made with love about falling in and out of love with yourself, and others. Enjoy over 60 poems from Jennae’s second edition of, Bright Minds Empty Souls. 

Technology books

SQL Server Metadata Succinctly

by  Joseph D. Booth

SQL Server is a very complex and powerful product, but it provides tremendous amounts of data about itself. You can use this metadata to improve your database design, increase performance, review security, and more. Joseph D.

NuGet In-House Succinctly

The NuGet package manager is an exceptional tool for sharing and distributing tools and code to other developers, but what do you do when you want to keep your code within your organization? In NuGet In-House Succinctly, author José Roberto Olivas Mendoza guides readers through the process of setting up a local NuGet server, creating a distributable package, publishing the package to that server, and then using the package in other projects. This is an essential ebook for all .NET developers.

My next collection will be :

Zero To one

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Talk Like Ted

Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a successful presentation. Now public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo explores what makes a great presentation by examining the widely acclaimed TED Talks, which have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking. TED ? which stands for technology, entertainment, and design ? brings together the world’s leading thinkers. These are the presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking.

The multi hyphen method

The internet and our phones mean we can work wherever, whenever and allow us to design our own working lives. In The Multi-Hyphen Method Emma Gannon teaches that it doesn’t matter if you’re a part-time PA with a blog, or a physio who runs an online jewellery store in the evenings

Brave not perfect

Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn’t care how your life looked on Instagram, or worry about what total strangers thought of you. Imagine if you could let go of the guilt, and stop beating yourself up for tiny mistakes. What if, in every decision you faced, you took the bolder path?

Hello world how to be human

You are accused of a crime? Who would you rather decides your future – an algorithm or a human?
Before making your decision, bear in mind that the algorithm will always be more consistent, and far less prone to an error of judgement. Then again, at least the human will be able to look you in the eye before determining your fate. How much fairness would you be willing to sacrifice for that human touch?

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?

A brief History of time

In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking’s classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds.