Under the Hood
by Khalid Aboubakr
What it really takes to build software that lasts.
Under the Hood is a twice-weekly column about the parts of software that decide whether it lasts: reliability, data, architecture, mobile and AI systems, healthcare and medical-education platforms — and the business decisions that shape them. Written for the engineers who build these systems and for the founders and decision-makers who pay for them.
New issues every Monday and Friday at 10:00 Cairo time.
Monday
Deep Engineering
How something actually works and how to build it correctly: mechanisms, failure modes, trade-offs and the code or schema that makes them concrete.
Friday
Engineering Perspective
How an experienced engineer weighs a decision: what it costs, what it commits you to, the questions to ask and the warning signs to watch for.
The first issue is on its way
Issues appear here as they are published. Each one stands on its own, and together they follow eight threads, listed below.
The threads the series follows
- Engineering for Reliability
- Mobile Engineering Beyond the Interface
- AI Without the Hype
- SaaS Architecture and Business Logic
- Healthcare and Medical Education Platforms
- Architecture Decisions
- The Business of Building Software
- Engineering Judgment