Episodes
Hello & welcome to episode 58 from the null++ podcast. In this week's episode, we will go through the concept of Monorepos as well as covering quickly the NX tool that is built over the Monorepos concept.
Published 03/14/22
Hello & welcome to episode 57 from the null++ podcast. In this week's episode, we will go through some of Git's advanced features (Worktrees & Submodules). We will go through the main use cases of each, the main antipattern if exist, and walk through the syntax quickly.
Published 02/21/22
Welcome to episode 56 from the null++ podcast. This week, we have decided to talk about Vue.js, its community, some of its strengths and weakness, and an overview of our experience using it in a few projects. We hope that you will like this episode, if you do, don't forget to share it with others.
Published 02/14/22
And we are back again (Hopefully 😅). Welcome to season 2 from the null++ podcast, we are happy to be back again.
In this episode, Alfy takes the lead in illustrating the benefit, structure, and importance of a brag document. A brag document is a document that is intended to help you visualize your worthy achievements and help you get your work recognized. We hope that you find this (being back) episode beneficial, don't forget to share it so that everyone knows we are back again 😅.
Published 02/07/22
Hello & welcome to the 54th episode from the null++ podcast. We are back again after being dormant for a long time. In this episode, we will be focusing on some topics related to front-end development. We went quickly through the history of single-page apps, their benefits, and limitations, the introduction of server-side rendering (Like Next.js), and the evolution of static site generators on top of these frameworks (Like Gatsby). We hope that this episode is a great welcome back and we...
Published 06/29/21
Hello & welcome to the 53rd episode from the null++ podcast. We are here with another episode with Ahmad Magdy (Software Engineer II at Uber), and we will be talking about observability and monitoring. This topic is among the ones that are highly important yet under-served. This is one of the must-listen episodes hence, listen to it, tell us if you liked it, and please do share it if you find it beneficial.
Published 05/10/21
Hello & welcome to the 52nd episode from the null++ podcast. Sorry for the long pause, it was unplanned and we were trying to go back earlier, unfortunately, it didn't work until this episode. In this episode, we have one of the most engaged fans of the podcast with us (Hassan El Desouky), and he will be talking about his experience with Google Summer Of Code and how did it impact his career development. We hope that you enjoy this episode and as usual, don't forget to subscribe to the...
Published 04/20/21
Hello & welcome to the 51st episode from the null++ podcast. We are still on with the 2021 Women In Tech March wave, in this episode, we have with us Eman, a project manager who works as a project manager for communication hardware. During the episode, we went through her career so far, the path she took to be a senior project manager, and the leadership challenges she sees facing females in the domain.
Published 03/15/21
Hello & welcome to the second episode from this year's Women In Tech theme coverage (International Women Day Specifically). In this episode, we have been joined by Taghreed Mohamed & Hager Ashour, participants of the 2020 TechWomen program. TechWomen is an initiative powered by the US Embassy as well as iie (More details in the show notes or the episode). Taghreed and Hager shared with us their experience with the program, how have they joined, and the benefits they got so far from...
Published 03/08/21
For the second year in a row, welcome to null++ "Women In Tech" march theme coverage. We are starting this year's wave with an exceptional episode, we have with us Nada Ibrahim, Nada currently working as an email developer with Delivery Hero. In this episode, Nada will tell us how did she start her career as an email developer, how did she join delivery hero and what are the challenges, or funny stories she experienced in her career.
Published 03/02/21
Welcome again to a new episode from the null++ podcase. In this episode (Episode[48]), we would be talking about the feature journey, what challenges are facing the tech team in each journey, and how to tackle these challenges. This episode covers the initial feature business brief, the design phase, the implementation phase, the moment of code review, and everything in between.
Published 02/22/21
Hello & welcome to the 47th episode from the null++ podcast. Mental health in tough times is the topic for today. Joining us this time Ayyad Farah, a friend who is recommended the topic in the first place, and then we thought why not joining us since he is the initiator. In this episode, we talked about depression, burnout, social stigmas, some practices that we can use to pass tough times, and so on.
Published 02/15/21
Hello & welcome to the 46th episode from the null++ podcast. A dear guest is with us again after almost one year 😅, Aya Elgebeely, the CEO of Talents Arena and we will be talking about technical recruitment and technical hiring. This episode was a response to a post that Aya did on Facebook a few weeks ago highlighting some of the not that good behavior related to a job application entry.
Published 02/06/21
Hello and welcome to this new episode from the Null++ podcast. We are back with guest episodes, this time we have with us Ahmed El Gabri, a Tech Lead from Miro. We discussed through the episode both the technical and leadership challenges he faced while building the frontend team at lightspeed, then his transition to Miro, and the challenges he is working with there as well. That was a very insightful episode that we think of a good value especially to senior engineers who seeking a...
Published 01/23/21
Hello & welcome to the 44th episode from the null++ podcast. In this very light but super important episode, we will go quickly over the filter, map & reduce functions, what are they, their importance to the code base, and what are the common errors and antipatterns that happen when using them.
As mentioned in the episode, we will start a quick mentorship program trial by selecting a few fresh grad/junior level developers who need a mentor to help them gain some quick professional...
Published 01/16/21
Hello & welcome to this anniversary episode from the null++ podcast. For the first time in this podcast, this episode was streamed live on the podcast's just launched Facebook page (link in the show notes). In this episode, we went quickly over 2020 important numbers like most downloaded episodes, most clicked resources from the show notes, .... etc. That's beside the typical Q&A that we usually do in the Q&A episodes. Don't forget to like the podcast's new page on Facebook, leave...
Published 01/09/21
Welcome to the 42nd episode from the Null++ podcast. In this episode, we will talk about some tips and tricks related to Git. This episode is considered one of the lightweight content worthy episodes, hence we think that a lot of you will like it 😉. As usual, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast through your pod-catcher, leave a review, and share the episode if you find it useful.
Published 12/12/20
Hello and welcome to the 41st episode from null++ podcasts. We are back with having amazing guests with us, this time we have Mosab Ibrahim, a Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Twitter. The content of the episode was directed towards understanding more the main concept of an SRE, what is the difference between it and DevOps, and what did Mosab study to pursue such a career. We hope that you enjoy this episode as always, as usual, don't forget subscribing to the podcast, leave a review if you...
Published 12/05/20
Hello & welcome to this new episode from the null++ podcast. We made it through to the 40th episode, a huge milestone for us, thanks to all the listeners for helping us making it this far. In this special episode, we have a dear guest again with us (Ahmed Essam) and the focus this time is around mobile development. We got many requests before to have an episode that focuses on mobility, and no one is better than Essam to elaborate on that.
Published 11/28/20
Hello & welcome to this new episode from the null++ podcast. In today's episode, we will go quickly over the topic of managing secrets, the secrets lifecycle, and the available tools and practices that could help you with keeping your secrets secure and risk-free.
Published 11/14/20
Hello & Welcome to the 38th episode of this podcast. In this week's episode, we will be walking quickly through the main concepts and ideas behind TDD & BDD as a test first approaches. It is a quick light episode that can help you quickly open your mind with these practices.
Published 11/07/20
Welcome again to this weekly episode from the null++ podcast. In this week's episode (37th), we will be talking about web accessibility, what is meant by accessibility, why it is important, and what are the different manifestations of accessibility. This topic is one of the most interesting, most under talked one in the region, hence we thought that such an episode will be both nice & needed.
Published 10/31/20