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In the high-stakes world of GCC e-commerce (KSA, UAE, Qatar), scaling is a multidimensional challenge. When you are orchestrating 10+ enterprise brands under a single engineering umbrella, the traditional webshop approach fails. You need a Platform-as-a-Product mindset. During our migration from SAP Spartacus (Angular) to Next.js, we didn't just rebuild...
It’s Friday afternoon. You push the last commit of the week. The CI/CD pipeline kicks off. You grab a coffee, waiting for the screen to turn green. But the notification comes back red: "Test Failed". You don't panic. You don't even check the logs to see the error. You just...
Every developer faces the same challenge: generating realistic test data. Libraries like Faker.js exist but they're static and limited. Ask ChatGPT to "generate 50 e-commerce orders" and you'll get nice JSON, but with zero consistency—a customer named "John Doe" might have an email like "alice@example.com". I needed a tool that...
In large-scale Frontend architectures—especially those requiring complex RTL/LTR support like Arabic-English platforms—internationalization (i18n) is often the weakest link in the CI/CD chain. Throughout my 4 years of experience managing enterprise codebases, I identified a critical architectural gap: Translation integrity is predominantly left to runtime checks. This reactive approach leads to...
For a long time, I was using Solarwinds for E2E test automation. At first, it did the job, but over time some issues became impossible to ignore: - Conditional scenarios constantly caused problems. - Its performance was far below my expectations. - I couldn’t customize it or add the features...
Over the past few months, I’ve been jotting down my own observations and readings about dopamine. At first, I just wanted to understand motivation better — but the deeper I went, the more I realized how our brain’s reward system actually works. Turns out, the small choices we make in...
This blog originally started as a simple GitHub repository I created to reinforce my knowledge of Next.js. Over time, I added various features, and when the idea of sharing thoughts crossed my mind, I realized this blog could serve that purpose quite well. You might notice some arguably unnecessary elements...