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Techcrunch Battlefield MENA - Trip report

I've been lucky enought to be part of the first ever Techrunch startup battlefield MENA this Wednsday, October 3, part of Facebook MENA tech week in the beautiful city of Beirut, Lebanon. This was my first time in Lebanon, even in the whole Middle east. I was honestly surprised by

Using Gitlab registry with google Jib

Even if it has been there for a long time now and I've even wrote a post about it, Google announced officially JIB few weeks back! Jib is a nice tool that helps automate the packaging of a Java program so that it can be run in the cloud-native environment.

DockerCon 2018, I was there!

DockerCon, has been held last week, 12-15 June 2018 in San Francisco! and guess what?! I was there along with more than 5000 containers fans, developers, IT experts, architects, sys-admins, Docker captains and my fellow community leaders! which makes DockerCon the best place to learn, collaborate and belong! What has

Karate framework: REST API testing made easy!

We all agree that there’s no way of making HTTP requests and navigating the forest of data that is returned to be fun! API testing, be it REST or GraphQL, can be tricky – both from perspectives of the testing code itself and from maintaining it up to date as

Smarter search with RSQL

RSQL is a query language for parametrized filtering of entries in RESTful APIs. It’s based on FIQL (Feed Item Query Language), that was originally specified by Mark Nottingham as a language for querying Atom feeds. However the simplicity of RSQL and its capability to express complex queries in a

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