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Thoughts, opinions, and technical articles on software engineering, cloud, AI, teamwork and anything that crosses my mind.

Agile theater: stand-ups, post-its, and zero decisions
Aug 12, 26
Agile theater: stand-ups, post-its, and zero decisions
How so many companies adopt the Agile look without changing anything that matters, turning their ceremonies into corporate theater.
Software engineering Opinion
How I Built My Own Personal Cloud
Aug 4, 26
How I Built My Own Personal Cloud
How I built a six-node cluster running local AI at home: the design decisions, the incidents that put it to the test, and why it was worth it.
Infrastructure Architecture
Multi-Project Hell: On Three Teams at Once and Truly on None
Jul 13, 26
Multi-Project Hell: On Three Teams at Once and Truly on None
Why being spread across four or five projects at once doesn't make you more efficient — it just leaves you shallow on all of them, according to the science of context switching.
Tech Career Management
Meetings That Should Have Been a Pull Request
Jun 29, 26
Meetings That Should Have Been a Pull Request
Why so many technical decisions that could fit in three paragraphs of a PR end up becoming an hour-long video call with ten people and a Head of Something.
Management Opinion
Feature flags, canary releases, and the art of not breaking production (too badly)
Jun 22, 26
Feature flags, canary releases, and the art of not breaking production (too badly)
How to use feature flags and canary releases to deploy safely, reduce incident risk, and keep your velocity without sacrificing your weekend.
Software Development
The False Consensus: When Nobody Dares Say the Idea Is Bad
Jun 15, 26
The False Consensus: When Nobody Dares Say the Idea Is Bad
Why teams nod along when they should push back, how silence turns into a collective decision, and what it takes to break that pattern.
Management Software Engineering
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