Omar I. El Mimouni — software engineer writing about distributed systems, backend, AWS, and things I learn along the way.https://www.elmimouni.net/en-ushttps://www.elmimouni.net/posts/aws-s3-scale-lessons/https://www.elmimouni.net/posts/aws-s3-scale-lessons/Notes and takeaways from AWS's talk on how S3 handles planetary scale storage, and what we can learn from it.Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTelmimouni.o.i@gmail.com (Omar I. EL MIMOUNI)https://www.elmimouni.net/posts/aws-sdk-memory-leak/https://www.elmimouni.net/posts/aws-sdk-memory-leak/How a subtle HTTP connection handling issue in the old AWS SDK caused periodic service crashes, and the migration path to fix it.Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTelmimouni.o.i@gmail.com (Omar I. EL MIMOUNI)https://www.elmimouni.net/posts/building-iot-component-sdk/https://www.elmimouni.net/posts/building-iot-component-sdk/How I built a Python SDK for IoT and Cyber Physical Systems that works without hardware, with realistic simulation, a web dashboard, and YAML based configuration.Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTelmimouni.o.i@gmail.com (Omar I. EL MIMOUNI)https://www.elmimouni.net/posts/angelhack-hackathon/https://www.elmimouni.net/posts/angelhack-hackathon/About my experience at the AngelHack Hackathon in DC, my first hackathon ever.Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTelmimouni.o.i@gmail.com (Omar I. EL MIMOUNI)https://www.elmimouni.net/posts/hello-and-welcome/https://www.elmimouni.net/posts/hello-and-welcome/First post and what this blog is about.Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTelmimouni.o.i@gmail.com (Omar I. EL MIMOUNI)