What is Haitham's Blog?

The What

The mission of this blog is to help others genuinely understand new topics in cloud technologies so that we can make progress against common enterprise goals in IT and software delivery.

The Why

Why I am building content for this blog is because I love helping others get things done. There is nothing better than understanding something and being able to get something done with that knowledge.

But as we know technology is all about persistence and time. We have a lot of challenging concepts, and the reality is that the only way to do something well is to read a lot of documentation, watch videos, review examples, and test your understanding by trying things and seeing if it works. Once we've confirmed our understanding, everything feels easy from there - but that's the hard part of our work, constantly having to learn and find ways to confirm our understanding.

My hope is that I can shorten that time investment through the content that I share and the way in which I share it.

The How

How I plan to make content genuine is by using a "what, why, how" framework:

What am I doing?

Why am I doing it?

How do I do it?

We generate more confidence in our approach and next steps when we consider the what and why prior to diving into the how. It forms our intention and gives us clarity on the goal we hope the solution is achieving.

And speaking on the how, a key question is: How do we know when we are making progress?

It requires us to first understand the what and why. These will inform the goals, initiatives, or metrics that we care about. And second, once we get to implementation on the solution which is the how, we are forced to also consider measurability: Can I measure the improvement this solution is making against the what and why?

While this way of thinking takes time and discipline, my hope is that it informs more complete solutions that get us closer to our goals.

Who is Haitham Shahin?

For the last few years, I've been focused on Containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud. I worked at Red Hat for a few years when containerization and Kubernetes just started to mature into a production-ready platform for enterprises.

Today I'm a Cloud Solutions Architect with Microsoft, enabling teams on Azure and specializing in PaaS / Serverless solutions like Azure App Service, Azure API Management, and Azure Kubernetes Service.

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer’s view in any way.

I recommend always testing your solutions! Please don't take this content at face value and implement it right in production, verify and do your diligence to ensure it meets your standards.