Brahim Bouine, CTO https://www.brahimbouine.com Brahim Bouine, Chief Technology Officer at Rafeeq. Writing about cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), AI, engineering leadership, team building, and startups. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:33:00 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en © 2026 Brahim Bouine <![CDATA[Why the Gulf Will Produce the Next Wave of Logistics Tech Unicorns]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/gulf-logistics-unicorns/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/gulf-logistics-unicorns/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The CTO Role in 2027: Managing Agents, Not Just Engineers]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/cto-2027-managing-agents/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/cto-2027-managing-agents/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[What 3 A.M. Incidents Taught Me That AWS Certifications Never Did]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/what-3am-incidents-taught-me/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/what-3am-incidents-taught-me/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[I Reviewed 400 CVs to Hire 5 Engineers in Qatar. Here's What Stood Out]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/hiring-engineers-qatar-400-cvs/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/hiring-engineers-qatar-400-cvs/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[RDS Proxy in Production: What the Docs Don't Tell You]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/rds-proxy-in-production/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/rds-proxy-in-production/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Kiro Is the DevOps Engineer I Didn't Know I Needed]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/kiro-devops-engineer/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/kiro-devops-engineer/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[When the War Reached Our Cloud: Evacuating an AWS Region in 6 Hours]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/surviving-bahrain-outage-dr-kiro/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/surviving-bahrain-outage-dr-kiro/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[My Team Looks Six Times Bigger, and I Haven't Hired Anyone]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/ai-team-capacity-without-hiring/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/ai-team-capacity-without-hiring/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Real-Time Order Tracking with AWS AppSync: How We Cut Update Latency by 94%]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/appsync-realtime-order-tracking/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/appsync-realtime-order-tracking/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Scaling Reads on RDS: Auto Scaling Groups, Redis, and CDN Caching in Front of Your Replicas]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/rds-autoscaling-redis-cdn/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/rds-autoscaling-redis-cdn/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Shipping LLMs to Production: Lessons from the Trenches]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/llms-in-production-lessons/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/llms-in-production-lessons/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Scaling an Engineering Team from 5 to 30 Without Losing the Plot]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/scaling-engineering-teams/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/scaling-engineering-teams/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Cutting Our Kubernetes Bill: A Practical Playbook]]> https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/kubernetes-cost-optimization/ https://www.brahimbouine.com/blog/kubernetes-cost-optimization/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT