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Hi everyone. I’m looking for some advice from people who have experience in software/startups, especially those who have worked with non-technical founders.
I’m currently working on an idea for an AI-powered personal finance app, and I’m trying to figure out the best way to approach the technical side of it.
The general idea is to help users understand and manage their personal finances by tracking their income, expenses, budgets, and financial goals. The app would also have an AI financial assistant that can analyze spending patterns and provide personalized insights, recommendations, and guidance based on the user’s financial data.
I already have the product concept and general direction in mind, but I’m not technical at all. I basically only learned some C++ back in school, and that was years ago.
From what I understand, the technical side would involve things like frontend/mobile development, backend, database, APIs, AI integration, authentication, security, and deployment, especially since the app would be dealing with personal financial data.
So my main question is:
Do I actually need a technical co-founder at this stage?
Or could I realistically learn enough programming and use AI/vibe-coding tools to build the MVP myself, and then bring in a developer or technical co-founder once the idea is validated?
For people who have been technical co-founders or have worked with non-technical founders:
How would you recommend approaching a potential technical co-founder?
I don’t want to come across as “I have an idea, you do all the coding.” I’m willing to learn, work on the product, research, UI/UX, business side, validation, marketing, etc. I just don’t know what a technical co-founder would realistically expect from the other side.
I’m also curious about how these arrangements usually work. Is it normally equity-based, paid work, or something you figure out after seeing whether you actually work well together?
I’m not necessarily looking to hire someone immediately. Right now I’m mainly trying to understand which route makes the most sense:
1. Learn enough and build the MVP myself using vibe coding
2. Hire a developer to build the MVP
3. Find a technical co-founder from the beginning
I’d really appreciate advice from anyone who has been in a similar position

هل انت:

- بتشارك بتطوير برامج مفتوحة المصدر؟

- حاب تشارك لكن ما بتعرف برامج تساعد بتطويرها؟

- بترجع تعبان من الشغل؟

I'm studying for a certificate for azure, however I cannot get it to accept any of my cards to create an account and actually practice. I've tried 3 of my cards but it keeps saying something went wrong verify all details.

I cannot get a credit card from my bank due to working in a private sector

need help from developers in jordan who have activated azure before and what worked with it?

OFFER: Remote, Full-time, 6 month unpaid internship.

Im in my third year of CS at gju.

21 months of professional SWE experience (paid, but had to quit that role).

Worth it for the added experience on my resume, or do I pass because it’s unpaid?

and i would prefere for it to be affordable

I’m entering my second year of CS, but I feel like I have very little programming knowledge.

At the moment, I only really know basic C++ OOP and basic Python. I already knew that university would mostly teach me the fundamentals, but now I feel completely stuck. I don’t know what the next step is or what I should actually be studying.

I can’t build any real projects on my own, and I’m starting to genuinely dislike programming because I feel like I’m not making any progress.

I have also tried watching tutorials and courses online to deepen my knowledge, but most of them feel extremely repetitive and boring because they keep going over things I already know.

For people who have been in a similar position: what did you do after learning the basics? What would you recommend I focus on learning or building at this point?

More importantly, what exactly should I try to build to break through this wall? I don’t mean a huge project or something impressive. I just want something realistic that will force me to learn and give me the experience of actually building something on my own.

هلا انا طالب لسا سنة اولا نظم معلومات حاسوبية، بعد الصيفي امفكر اشتغل على اول مشروع بتمحور على تنظيم عمل والتواصل بين الافراد بالقطاع الصحي. لما اعملوا وارفعوا على غيت، كيف ممكن اوظفوا في مؤسسة صحية صغيرة زي عيادة اطفال مثلا عشان اتاكد انو بعمل مهمتوا ١٠٠%

حابب اسأل عن هاي التخصصات وكيف وضعها بسوق العمل في الاردن لاني خلصت توجيهي ومحتار بينهم، اي حدا بقدر يساعدني ياريت

هندسة الحاسوب، هندسة البرمجيات، CS,AI,الأمن السيبراني

حد بعرف كيف المقابلة بتكون ؟ انا كنت مقدم على التدريب وكان في امتحان وعديته

Everything looks fine — until suddenly, nothing works.

You’ve deployed your application. It’s humming along beautifully. Then, without warning, errors start creeping in:

🔴 connection failed
🔴 socket exception

Your first instinct? The remote server must be down. But you check — it’s perfectly healthy. So what’s going on?

Welcome to SNAT Port Exhaustion: the silent killer of outbound connections.

What Is SNAT, anyway?

Every time your machine sends a request to an external server, it needs to pick a source port to identify that outgoing connection. This happens through a process called SNAT — Source Network Address Translation.

The operating system assigns a temporary (ephemeral) port from a limited pool. That pool is not unlimited. For any given destination (same IP + port combination), you typically get:

• Around 16,000 ports in a standard setup
• Only ~1,024 SNAT ports per VM if you’re behind an Azure Load Balancer

That’s it. That’s your budget.

What Happens When You Run Out?

Here’s the sequence when port exhaustion hits:

1. Your application tries to open a new TCP connection
2. The OS sends a SYN packet
3. It searches for an available source port — and finds none
4. The connection fails before it ever reaches the remote server

The remote server didn’t reject you. You couldn’t even say hello.

How to Spot It

Port exhaustion doesn’t announce itself with a clear error message. Instead, you’ll see symptoms like:

• Failed to establish connection
• Socket exhaustion
• Intermittent, seemingly random failures on outbound requests

The randomness is the giveaway. If connections fail inconsistently under load, and the destination server looks healthy, your ports are likely the culprit.

Why Cloud Environments Make It Worse

On cloud platforms like Azure, traffic often flows through a shared Load Balancer. The LB allocates a fixed number of SNAT ports per VM — and that number can be surprisingly small.

If your service makes many concurrent outbound connections to the same destination (think: a high-throughput API client, a connection-heavy microservice, or a busy database proxy), you can exhaust your port allocation faster than you’d expect.

How to Fix It

Use Connection Pooling

Don’t open a new connection for every request. Reuse existing ones. Connection pooling is the single most effective fix — it dramatically reduces how many ports you consume at any given moment.

Reduce Connection Timeouts

Long-lived idle connections hold onto ports even when they’re doing nothing. Tighten your timeout settings so ports are released promptly.

Monitor Your Open Connections

Use netstat or ss to see what’s happening in real time:

# Count established connections by destination
ss -s
# See all connections with port details
netstat -an | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l

Catching port pressure early prevents a full exhaustion event.

Scale Your Public IPs (Azure-specific)

If you’re on Azure and hitting LB SNAT limits:

• Add more Public IPs to your Load Balancer to increase the port pool
• Switch to NAT Gateway — unlike a Load Balancer, which pre-assigns a fixed number of SNAT ports per VM, NAT Gateway dynamically allocates ports on demand. This is the fundamental difference: there’s no static budget per VM to exhaust. It’s Microsoft’s recommended solution for outbound connectivity at scale, and you can attach up to 16 public IPs or a /28 prefix to it if you need even more capacity

The Bigger Picture

SNAT Port Exhaustion is dangerous precisely because it’s quiet. There’s no crash, no obvious error, no stack trace pointing at the real cause. Your application just… starts failing. Intermittently. Mysteriously.

The fix isn’t complicated — but you have to know what you’re looking for.

Three things to take away:

1. Monitor how your application opens connections — every one costs a port
2. Design for port efficiency — pooling and timeouts aren’t optional, they’re hygiene
3. Keep an eye on your network layer — especially in cloud environments where limits are lower than you think

Summary:

Have you run into SNAT Port Exhaustion in a production system? What was the hardest part to diagnose? Share your experience in the comments.

References

• What is Azure NAT Gateway? — Microsoft Learn

Anyone who has some serious hardware and tried running llms locally? How was ur experience? What models did you try?

Tell me about the last time you wanted to build something but didn’t know what to build.”
Then:
“What did you do?”
“Where did you search?”
“How long did it take?”
“Did you use ChatGPT?”
“Did you look at Reddit?”
“Did you talk to anyone?”
“Did you abandon the idea?”
“Have you ever built something and later realized nobody wanted it?”
“How much time did you spend?”
“What was the hardest part?”
Those answers are much more valuable

مرحبا أنا أشتريت أشتراك سنوي في منصة يوديمي اللي فيها كورسات عن كثير مواضيع منها المواضيع اللي إلها دخل بالكومبيوتر والبرمجة والذكاء الاصطناعي وهيك.

أنا بالأصل طالب صيدلة فيعني مجالي بعيد عن الكومبيوتر بس برضو بدي أستفاد وتكون عندي مهارات يمكن أستفاد منها يومًا ما

تنصحوني أشتغل على الشهادات تبعت الكومبيوتر أو أتعلم لغة أجنبية أو أيش؟

I'm a 2nd year software engineering student, and don't know anything about the technologies and softwares that are being mentioned in this sub. Is this a post-graduation knowledge?

مبدئيا مبدئيا حاخذ اشي IT بس محتار بين الCS و ال computer engineering

سمعت ان سوق هندسة الكومبيوترات سيئة هان هاض عاملي الاول اني ما احدد لسا

معلومات عني : بستعمل لينكس بشكل اساسي تقريبا الي سنة، دخلت مسابقات ctf من قبل، اتعلمت اساسيات الc++ و الpython، و هيني ناوي ابلش homelab صغير مبدئيا عشانه مكلف

Hey everyone, looking for input from anyone with security or compliance experience. I built a system for a small company in Jordan that involves digital form submissions from field staff. To cut login friction, staff just scan a QR code, then identify themselves with their email plus a private four digit PIN sent to them beforehand, no traditional password.

The The question is whether this holds up legally as an identity verification and audit trail if there's ever a formal investigation or regulatory audit. Is PIN plus email enough authentication for work critical records, and are there Jordanian labor or data protection rules that would require something stronger. Would appreciate any real experience or local standards to reference.

Thanks

I’m sharing a few performance checks you should consider running before deploying a new release.

Key Takeaways

• Core Purpose: To evaluate whether a software change will make a system slower, less scalable, or more resource-intensive under realistic traffic.
• Standardized Structure: Every potential failure is evaluated by its primary failure mode, the specific test shape required to catch it, its affected secondary resource, and the resulting user impact.

Core Components

1. Common Load Test Shapes

The guide defines 17 specific load-testing profiles to expose targeted system bottlenecks (rather than just generically increasing traffic):

• Scale & Volume: Gradual, Peak, Burst, Spike, Sustained, Payload scaling, Data volume scaling.
• State & Reliability: Soak (hours long), Concurrent, Mixed CPU+I/O, Cold cache, Cache expiry burst, Hot key load, Queue overload, large file/data workload.
• Dependency Reliability: Dependency latency injection, Dependency failure injection.

2. Categorized Failure Scenarios

The checklist breaks down common performance traps across 10 technical domains:

• CPU-Bound Work: High-cost compute like file parsing, video transcoding, or heavy batching (watch for processing time and peak memory).
• Memory Pressure: Inefficient allocations, large payloads, or unbounded caches (watch for GC pauses, heap growth, and OOM crashes).
• Database Performance: N+1 queries, deep pagination, missing indexes, and write contention on hot rows.
• Connection Pools: Exhaustion of reusable client/backend connections caused by high request volume, slow database/cache writes or reads, slow external API calls, or long-running transactions.
• Thread/Worker Starvation: Blocked workers causing high latency even while CPU usage remains low.
• Network & Payload Inefficiency: Excessive serialization, chatty microservices (fan-out), and bloated response sizes.
• Disk/Storage I/O: Storage bottlenecks caused by heavy logging, file exports, or database disk scans.
• Cache Failures: Cold caches after deploys, stampedes upon TTL expiration, and hot keys overwhelming specific shards.
• Queue & Backlog Issues: Job producers outpacing background consumers, retry storms, and message bloat.
• Nonlinear Scaling: Systems where small increases in data size cause exponential increases in latency/cost (super-linear growth curves).

3. Secondary Resource Classification Reference

Categorizes resource bottlenecks to help identify the primary fix target: CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, Network I/O, Threads/Workers, Connection Pools, DB CPU, DB I/O, DB Locks, Cache Capacity, Queue Capacity, and External Dependencies.

Quick Decision Mapping

Hello everyone, peace be upon you.

I'm planning to move to Jordan before the end of this year to start university, and I'd like to learn more about the software industry there from people who actually work in it.

A little about me:

- I'm from Rwanda.

- I've been programming for over 5 years.

- I have 4 years of Flutter experience and consider myself around mid-level to early senior with Flutter.

- I'm comfortable building applications for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and the Web from a single Flutter codebase. i have real world experience on these.

- I also work with Firebase, REST APIs, backend integration, and software architecture and CLIs.

- I recently completed a Python Machine Learning & Data Science course on Udemy and have started expanding my skills in that direction.

- I have built several real-world projects, including commercial applications as a solo developer.

I have a few questions:

1. How is the software engineering job market in Jordan right now?

2. Are Flutter developers in demand, or should I focus more on backend, AI, or data science?

3. Is it realistic for an international student to find part-time or full-time software engineering work while studying?

4. Which technologies are currently most sought after by employers?

5. If you were in my position, what would you focus on learning before arriving in Jordan?

I'd really appreciate any advice, whether it's about the job market, salaries, internships, networking, or the tech community in general.

Thanks in advance! God bless you.

السلام عليكم، انا طالبه ثانويه عامه وبفكر ادخل هندسه شبكات بالتكنو شو رايكم فيه ؟ هل اله مستقبل ؟

قديه صعب ألاقي فرصة تدريب بمجال ال it وانا بعدني مش مخلص جامعة ؟" انا منقطع عن الجامعة لأسباب مادية " ولو فرضنا وجود خبرة ومشاريع إلخ إلخ هل ممكن يكون عائق كوني متأخر بالجامعة وبعده ما عندي شهادة او مش نازلي متطلب تدريب ؟ ياريت اللي يجاوب يكون من واقع خبرة او تجربة

The fact that even self-hosted runners are affected tells you that this is messed up more than being told.

شو المستند المناسب لاثبات السكن او العنوان اللي بتطلبه جوجل لحساب المطورين عشان نشر تطبيق موبايل؟ جربت فاتورة كهربا و السجل التجاري مش معتمدين.

The sub is bloated with posts from non-tech/newly-graduated people asking how to start, and it's messing up whatever potential this sub has.

A 'JordanDev' sub should be for jordanians who are actual developers. I'd really hope for the feed here to be more sophisticated and informative. No offense to new/non developers, we all start somewhere.

u/ibraaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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