Systems Engineering

Imagine a licensed Civil Engineer, bound by a professional code of ethics and a legal duty to public safety, meticulously designing the structural supports for a new bridge. Every calculation is checked, every material is specified, and the entire process is governed by systematic, quantifiable principles. Now, picture a “Software Engineer” in a fast-paced tech […]

The Rise and Fall of RUP: From Industry Standard to Historical Artifact The software development industry has witnessed one of its most significant paradigm shifts in the early 2000s, when lightweight, agile methodologies like Scrum gradually displaced established heavyweight processes such as the Rational Unified Process (RUP). This transformation represents more than just a change

In July 2021, a single outage at the cloud services provider Akamai triggered a digital domino effect, cascading across the internet and taking down major banking, retail, and media websites. For several hours, customers couldn’t access their money, businesses couldn’t process transactions, and news outlets struggled to disseminate information. The financial cost was measured in

A Personal Journey into Self-Rewriting Code I vividly remember the excitement I felt around fifteen years ago when I first encountered the concept of self-rewriting code in Chapter 27, titled “Polymorphic Viruses,” of The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses by Mark Ludwig. This chapter opened my eyes to the ingenious ways that software could dynamically alter

Throughout the years, I’ve had the pleasure to meet people from all over the world and with different backgrounds. Usually, one of the first topics we talk about is what we do for a living. Unfortunately, there are several interpretations of my profession (Systems Engineering), which commonly lead to entangled faces when I briefly explain the actual