Personal blog of Omar Bahareth. Writing about software engineering, management, and technology.https://omar.engineer/en-ushttps://omar.engineer/articles/my-journey-with-obstructive-sleep-apnea/https://omar.engineer/articles/my-journey-with-obstructive-sleep-apnea/The Discovery Phase, treatment journey, and practical recommendations for managing obstructive sleep apnea.Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/using-redis-hashes-for-caching-in-ruby-on-rails/https://omar.engineer/articles/using-redis-hashes-for-caching-in-ruby-on-rails/Improving Redis caching performance in Ruby on Rails by replacing delete_matched with Redis Hashes.Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/mrsool-the-super-app-with-superpowers/https://omar.engineer/articles/mrsool-the-super-app-with-superpowers/An inside look at Mrsool, the first deliver-anything platform in the MENA region, and the engineering behind its superpowers.Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/engineering-management-an-overview/https://omar.engineer/articles/engineering-management-an-overview/Learn what to expect and strive for as a developer transitioning into Engineering Management.Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/lessons-learned-from-a-year-of-fighting-with-webpack-and-babel/https://omar.engineer/articles/lessons-learned-from-a-year-of-fighting-with-webpack-and-babel/Is your single page app not working on some browsers? Is your webpack build time taking ages? This article should help.Tue, 25 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/a-quick-dive-into-graphql-part-1-consuming-graphql-api/https://omar.engineer/articles/a-quick-dive-into-graphql-part-1-consuming-graphql-api/GraphQL is a query language for your API that makes it easy to fetch many resources in a single request. Think of it as being able to send queries to an API endpoint to fetch exactly what you want.Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/why-gsuite-sucks-for-personal-use/https://omar.engineer/articles/why-gsuite-sucks-for-personal-use/Issues I faced with Google's services as a paying G Suite customer for personal use.Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/2017-away-comfort-zone/https://omar.engineer/articles/2017-away-comfort-zone/2017 was the year I grabbed my comfort zone, shoved it towards a corner and beat the heck out of it.Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/the-case-of-the-jumping-dot/https://omar.engineer/articles/the-case-of-the-jumping-dot/When you enter the dot/full stop character when typing in English, it just works, and you don’t need to think about it dancing around your words and sentences. This isn’t the case in Arabic.Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/improving-algolia-ruby-client-deletion-performance/https://omar.engineer/articles/improving-algolia-ruby-client-deletion-performance/Improving the performance Algolia's client-side deletion methods in Ruby from taking hours to complete to milliseconds.Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://omar.engineer/articles/indexing-pdf-for-searching-using-tika-nokogiri-and-algolia/https://omar.engineer/articles/indexing-pdf-for-searching-using-tika-nokogiri-and-algolia/Easily and quickly getting PDFs searchable with paragraph-level accuracy using Tika and Algolia.Thu, 05 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT