How do you keep an ecommerce platform running when Ramadan and Green Friday traffic hits? Hussam AlMarzouk, VP of Engineering at Zid, on engineering culture, reliability and cutting 1.2 million lines of code.

Hussam takes us from debugging hardware and startup life to running one of the region's leading ecommerce platforms for merchants in Saudi Arabia. He explains the nines behind 99.98% uptime, how Zid prepares for seasonal peaks with disciplined deployments and autoscaling, and why good engineering is about smart choices you can live with later.

In this episode

• Reliability engineering, DevOps and what 99.98% uptime really takes
• Preparing for Ramadan and Green Friday traffic
• Zid Ship, logistics APIs and system boundaries
• Technical debt, code standards and deleting 1.2M lines of code
• Rapid fire: monoliths vs microservices, AI in ecommerce, security vs convenience

حسام المرزوق، نائب رئيس الهندسة في زد، يتحدث عن ثقافة الهندسة واستقرار المنصات والتجارة الإلكترونية في السعودية.

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