https://djal.al/ Recent content on djal.al Hugo en-us Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://djal.al/download-expired/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://djal.al/download-expired/ Download Link Expired The download link you followed has expired. Please reply to the original email you received, or contact djalal@djal.al to request a new link. https://djal.al/posts/2026-02-21-curecode-3-lies-25-founders-ben-guerir/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://djal.al/posts/2026-02-21-curecode-3-lies-25-founders-ben-guerir/ In 2015, I sat in the audience at DockerCon Europe. I was just an attendee then, watching the giants of infrastructure take the stage. That spark led me to start giving internal talks at my job. I was building the confidence to speak. By 2018, I found my tribe at TechnoPark Casablanca with the Moroccan IT Community. I then joined the speaking circuit, appearing at BlaBlaConf, Devoxx MA but also BizTech Morocco, and OpenSourceDays, etc. https://djal.al/books/de-dockerfail-a-dockerfile/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:05:33 +0530 https://djal.al/books/de-dockerfail-a-dockerfile/ Évitez d’échouer avec les conteneurs là où tout le monde a échoué 🐳 Dix ans après, Docker est maintenant l’outil de développement n° 1, selon le sondage StackOverflow 2023. 🙀 Mais les bonnes pratiques sont éparpillées partout, certaines sont incomplètes, d’autres obsolètes. 🚀 C’est pourquoi j’ai créé le framework Clean Container : un système simple en 3 étapes pour des conteneurs légers, rapides et incassables. 📘 Le tout dans un livre de 2 heures sans blabla pour les équipes DevOps, les ingénieurs Platform et les développeurs Fullstack ! https://djal.al/posts/2025-10-15-cloud-native-is-dead-long-live-container-native-code-first/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:14:12 +0000 https://djal.al/posts/2025-10-15-cloud-native-is-dead-long-live-container-native-code-first/ TL;DR “Cloud‑native” has become a vibe, not a set of practices. Let’s bring CNCF back to containers and code, “Container Native, Code First” So What’s The CNCF? Depending on who you ask, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is: Home of Kubernetes and hundreds of other tools A certification and training shop (CKA/CKAD) the Woodstock of tech conferences (KubeCon) Or the elephant everyone’s touching differently—governance, marketing, community, and even politics. In plain english, it’s a gathering of the biggest tech companies with shared interests steering open-source together for everything related to deployments in production by building a community ecosystem around them. https://djal.al/posts/2025-05-19-if-its-not-in-git-it-does-not-exist/ Mon, 19 May 2025 15:58:22 +0000 https://djal.al/posts/2025-05-19-if-its-not-in-git-it-does-not-exist/ 20 years ago, there was no git. It’s been quite the coming of age! What started as an obscure tool for Linux maintainers is now trusted for everything “software related”. Why is that? Well, there is more to git than the “pull, add, commit, push” incantations we got used to. git is more than a CLI for your laptop. It’s a protocol, a server, an architecture and above this, it’s an ecosystem. https://djal.al/talks/2026-01-31-no-dev-no-problem/ Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:11:33 +0000 https://djal.al/talks/2026-01-31-no-dev-no-problem/ https://djal.al/books/from-dockerfail-to-dockerfile/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:05:33 +0530 https://djal.al/books/from-dockerfail-to-dockerfile/ Avoid failing at containers where everyone else did 🐳 Ten years after, Docker is now the #1 Most-Used Developer Tool, according to StackOverflow Survey 2023. 🙀 But good practices are scattered everywhere, some are incomplete, and others obsolete. 🚀 That’s why I built the Clean Container framework: a simple 3-step system for lightweight fast unbreakable containers. 📘All in a 2-hour no-BS book for DevOps teams, Platform engineers and Fullstack developers! https://djal.al/posts/key-takeaways-from-devoxxma-the-edge-conf/ Sat, 11 Nov 2023 18:40:37 +0000 https://djal.al/posts/key-takeaways-from-devoxxma-the-edge-conf/ One month after its latest edition, I thought Devoxx Morocco deserved a special look back on 10 editions of slowly building a brand as the number one developer conference in MENA. I’ve been around the world in tech conferences, and while some are worth it, they either stall or slowly decline in a salesy suite of corporate talks. Devoxx Morocco is fundamentally different. It’s not only about the growing audience, the consistency of xHub staff or even the record number of talks submitted. https://djal.al/talks/2023-10-13-the-7-step-job-generator-for-junior-developers/ Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:02:07 +0000 https://djal.al/talks/2023-10-13-the-7-step-job-generator-for-junior-developers/ https://djal.al/talks/2023-02-20-no-code-no-problem/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:53:44 +0000 https://djal.al/talks/2023-02-20-no-code-no-problem/ https://djal.al/talks/2023-02-01-from-dockerfail-to-dockerfile/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:59:28 +0000 https://djal.al/talks/2023-02-01-from-dockerfail-to-dockerfile/ https://djal.al/talks/2022-01-01-doing-devops-from-a-to-zen/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:50:09 +0000 https://djal.al/talks/2022-01-01-doing-devops-from-a-to-zen/ https://djal.al/books/test/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 21:05:33 +0530 https://djal.al/books/test/ Buy (PDF) Buy (EPUB) https://djal.al/talks/2021-10-23-paas-the-secret-weapon-in-the-cloud-wars/ Sat, 23 Oct 2021 15:49:40 +0000 https://djal.al/talks/2021-10-23-paas-the-secret-weapon-in-the-cloud-wars/ https://djal.al/posts/2023-05-28-a-story-of-docker-migration/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:11:42 +0000 https://djal.al/posts/2023-05-28-a-story-of-docker-migration/ 📦 A Docker Migration Story 🐳 What’s the process for a team to make the transition in infrastrucure from classic VMs to Container As A Service? Here’s the gist of it, as we learned it the hard way on the course of 18 months in a previous PaaS startup. (Decision Maker) Recognize the need for change: Virtual Machines (VMs) have limitations and fixed costs. Containers provide infrastructure as code, traceability, and improved performance. https://djal.al/talks/devops-a-to-zen/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:54:26 +0000 https://djal.al/talks/devops-a-to-zen/ https://djal.al/about/ Sat, 05 Nov 2016 21:05:33 +0530 https://djal.al/about/ A minimal, responsive and light theme for Hugo inspired by Linux console. Installation $ mkdir themes $ cd themes $ git submodule add https://github.com/mrmierzejewski/hugo-theme-console.git hugo-theme-console See the Hugo documentation for more information. Configuration Set theme parameter in your config file: theme = "hugo-theme-console" License Copyright © 2020 Marcin Mierzejewski The theme is released under the MIT License. Check the original theme license for additional licensing information. https://djal.al/ask-djalal/ Sat, 05 Nov 2016 21:05:33 +0530 https://djal.al/ask-djalal/ After 25+ years of exp. in production systems, I helped startups and Fortune 500 companies on: Cloud ’n’ Containers Replatforming on AWS Optimizing Docker images for legacy apps Hardening Kubernetes in production Systems architecture choosing a stack for a SaaS web app boosting slow deployments cycles rewriting a monolith to microservices DevOps principles establishing a blameless culture running automations around tooling implementing a feedback loop Want to share something? Book a free 15-min call now :point_down: https://djal.al/photos/2023-05-28-gumballs-in-real-life/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://djal.al/photos/2023-05-28-gumballs-in-real-life/