Hi, I’m Abdirahman 👋 In this post, I’ll be sharing my experiences as a software engineer at Trainline — I hope this can give you some insight into how things work at Trainline as well as our engineering culture. About me I joined Trainline as a Software Engineer within the…

Introduction The difficulty of securing opportunities today cannot be overstated. This concept applies to all sectors except Technology, where there are countless opportunities for us all. The availability of jobs within the tech sector continues to rise at a rapid pace in spite of the COVID-19 Pandemic and other factors influencing…

As you dive deep into the world of web engineering, you might’ve come across the term DOM. The JavaScript DOM is one of the most important JavaScript fundamentals to learn before progressing to libraries such as React, Angular or Vue. But what is it exactly? In this blog, we’ll cover…

Do you want a deeper understanding as to what’s actually going on within our distributed systems? Are you tired of just collecting logs but want a mechanism that enables you to actually transform that data into actionable insights? If you answered yes to both questions — then you need to…

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you create an array? or what happens when you search google.com in your browser? How do we design scalable systems that can handle requests from 1 million concurrent users? How do we ensure that our systems are highly available? These…

Python, C++, Java, Fortran, Golang, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, MARIE, JSX, HTML, CSS. These are all languages. But, can you define the differences between each one? Do you know which one is interpreted? Is your favourite language compiled into machine code in one go or line-by-line? In this article — you…

I recently started building a personal website (abdirahman.io). At first, I spent a lot of time building and deploying my code manually. But as time went on, deploying code became very tedious. I turned my head to the AWS cloud and started using their developer tools to automate code changes…

AWS EventBridge is Amazon’s serverless event bus that simplifies the process for creating event driven applications at scale. It allows developers to build event driven applications that can scale across AWS, on-premise systems, and SaaS products. This architecture can capitalize on events to trigger communication between decoupled applications and services…

Introduction I recently encountered Dependency Injection and I found it quite confusing at first. I’ll try to break it down for you so you won’t have to struggle like I did at first. In software engineering, dependency injection is a technique in which an object receives other objects that it depends…