AI & Platform Engineering consultant
Hi, I'm Al-waleed Shihadeh
Platform engineering leader with 15+ years building and running cloud-native production systems. I help organizations improve availability, security and reliability, control cloud cost, and adopt AI through secure infrastructure, gateways and integrations.
50Articles on Medium
8Topics covered
10Open source projects
15+Years in engineering
Open source
Projects
Gems, FluentD plugins and a GitHub Action I maintain. Each one has full docs.
GitHub Action
Ruby gems
Rack
Deep Health Check
A Rack health check middleware that verifies the services an app depends on.
Read the docs →PrometheusDelayedJob Metrics
Expose Prometheus metrics for Delayed Jobs.
Read the docs →RailsIRBTracker
Track and correlate every command run in the IRB console, with LDAP authentication.
Read the docs →MessagingRabbitMQ Client
A RabbitMQ client for Ruby applications.
Read the docs →SwarmSwarm Orca
Capistrano recipes to deploy services and Rails applications to a Docker Swarm cluster.
Read the docs →FluentD plugins
FluentD
Docker Metadata
Attach Docker Swarm service and container names to FluentD messages.
Read the docs →FluentDEmpty Keys
Filter out and remove empty keys from FluentD messages.
Read the docs →FluentDKey-Value Parser
Parse key-value formatted FluentD events and extract their attributes.
Read the docs →FluentDRecord Splitter
Split a single FluentD event into multiple records.
Read the docs →Writing
Blog posts
Articles on Medium, grouped by topic. Search or filter to find something.
Software Engineering
5 Risks That Should Be Avoided in Software Projects
Read on Medium →Software EngineeringAutomating Release cycle activities
Read on Medium →Software EngineeringAutomate Unit Tests Coverage Reports and Dependency Updates for Your Repositories.
Read on Medium →Software EngineeringTips for Implementing a Software Release Process
Read on Medium →Software EngineeringAvoid Production Incidents by Considering Production Conditions During Development
Read on Medium →Software EngineeringImprove Code Quality and Git History with Automation tools
Read on Medium →Software EngineeringHow to Add Badges to a GitHub Repository
Read on Medium →Software EngineeringHow to Use Environment Variables with RSpec Unit Tests
Read on Medium →Software EngineeringBuild a Health Check Rack Middleware
Read on Medium →KubernetesHow to Migrate From Docker Compose to Kubernetes
Read on Medium →KubernetesResource Limits on Kubernetes
Read on Medium →KubernetesHelm Chart Wait for All Dependencies Before Starting Kubernetes Pods
Read on Medium →Docker SwarmSix Tips For Running Swarm Cluster in Production
Read on Medium →Docker SwarmPortainer Review
Read on Medium →Docker SwarmHow to Limit Resources for Docker Swarm Services
Read on Medium →Docker SwarmZero Downtime Deployments With Docker Swarm
Read on Medium →Docker SwarmHow to Deploy Portus and Docker Registry in Swarm
Read on Medium →Docker SwarmOrchestrating a Rails Docker Deployment in Swarm
Read on Medium →TraefikTraefik 2 High Available Mode
Read on Medium →TraefikPrevent DDoS Attacks with Traefik 2
Read on Medium →TraefikIntegrate Traefik 2.1 Reverse Proxy with Docker Swarm Services
Read on Medium →TraefikMonitoring Traefik With Grafana
Read on Medium →TraefikTraefik 2 and Open Tracing
Read on Medium →Application Logs & Centralized loggingParse Ruby on Rails logs with FluentD
Read on Medium →Application Logs & Centralized loggingCentralize Your Docker Logging With FluentD
Read on Medium →Application Logs & Centralized loggingHow to Correlate Rails Requests to Database Logs
Read on Medium →Application Logs & Centralized loggingCentralize Your Docker Logging With Syslog
Read on Medium →Application Logs & Centralized loggingCollect and Store Rails Console Logs
Read on Medium →Application Logs & Centralized loggingRuby on Rails Single Line Logging
Read on Medium →Application Logs & Centralized loggingSeven Tips For Using Fluentd For Logs Collection
Read on Medium →MonitoringMonitor Delayed Jobs with Prometheus and Grafana 2
Read on Medium →MonitoringMonitor Delayed Jobs with Prometheus and Grafana 1
Read on Medium →Containers and OrchestratorsFive Use Cases For Docker Entry Points
Read on Medium →Containers and OrchestratorsCache and Serve Rails Static Assets With Nginx Reverse Proxy
Read on Medium →Containers and OrchestratorsThree Methods to Share Rails Assets With Nginx
Read on Medium →Containers and OrchestratorsHow to Detect Vulnerabilities in Docker Images
Read on Medium →Containers and OrchestratorsDockerizing Rails Applications Part 3: CI/CD Integration
Read on Medium →Containers and OrchestratorsDockerizing Rails Applications Part 2: Automation
Read on Medium →Containers and OrchestratorsDockerizing Rails Applications Part 1: Writing the Dockerfile
Read on Medium →Containers and OrchestratorsAutomate Docker Registry Cleanup
Read on Medium →Containers and OrchestratorsHow to Build Docker Base Images for Rails
Read on Medium →DevOps Tools & TricksBuild GitHub Actions Using Docker Containers
Read on Medium →DevOps Tools & TricksBuild a Blog With GitHub and MkDocs
Read on Medium →DevOps Tools & Tricks5 Tips for Hosting Your Own Jenkins Instance
Read on Medium →DevOps Tools & TricksHow to Minimize the Costs of Running AWS EC2 Instances Using Terraform
Read on Medium →DevOps Tools & TricksBuild an OpenLDAP Docker Image That’s Populated With Users
Read on Medium →DevOps Tools & TricksCreate SonarQube Jenkins webhook
Read on Medium →DevOps Tools & TricksHow to Add Github Webhooks to a Jenkins Pipeline
Read on Medium →DevOps Tools & TricksImprove Your Productivity Using Git and Bash Aliases
Read on Medium →DevOps Tools & TricksHost a Secure Private Gem Server With LDAP Authentication and Authorization
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