Zakaria Amine's blog

I was recently debugging a crashing program written in C using printf statements.

Unlike many programming languages, shell(bash) scripting has no official tool for debugging.

I recently encountered a problem on HackerRank named “Bigger is Greater”: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/bigger-is-greater/problem.

If you are running Kubernetes on the top of Hetzner cloud, you may have encountered an annoying issue when trying to obtain a TLS certifcate for a domain through the cert-manager operator.

Solving programming puzzles is a good way to get reminded of software engineering fundamentals like algorithms and data structures.

Around July 2021, I made a proposal to add a new functionality to github.com/gorilla/schema library: the possiblity to set default values when the target struct field value is nil or is not set.

After over one year and 4 months, I was happy to see the PR #11387 that I have submitted to the helm project finally accepted and merged.

If you have used AWS ECR service (AWS container registry) before, you must be already aware that the registry credentials are only valid for 12 hours.

Last time I upgraded Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04, I almost swore I will never upgrade again.

I needed recently to track an issue with a kubernetes configmap that was reset after each ArgoCD (continuous delivery for Kubernetes) synchronization.