The Optimist Engineer

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Sharing experiences, learnings, and inspiration from the tech world, with a bit of optimism. Interesting for Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, and software makers from Startups to medium-sized companies. Hope my journey could help yours.

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9 Tools To Develop Software For Cloud

Each ecosystem requires a different tool set, and your belt must be well prepared. Developing applications for a Kubernetes environment is no exception

Opinion About Failing Silently In Our Products

Yes, and depends on the impact over the users

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DevOps Engineer role will melt down

DevOps is a culture, not a position

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Handy Kakfa commands

Managing Apache Kafka clusters from a developer perspective when we are implementing code or troubleshooting in production environments

🟒🟠 Modern Rockstars and Old-school Rockstars

I can identify 2 kind of Rockstar profiles. And guess what, only one of them is the one you want in your company

πŸ”΄ Do you need a Rockstar developer?

When we talk about hiring, what is a Rockstar? Is this a profile you need in your company?

https://open.substack.com/pub/optimistengineer/p/do-you-need-a-rockstar-developer?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=nw9bj

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Do you need a Rockstar developer?

When we talk about hiring, what is a Rockstar? Is this a profile you need in your company?

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Feature Owner Role in a Tech Company

The main support for a Tech Lead

πŸ”΄ New issue of The Optimist Engineer!

We don't always start from scratch. Often, Software Engineers find themselves tasked with improving a legacy system that wasn't created by us and isn't in the best shape. Where should we begin?

https://open.substack.com/pub/optimistengineer/p/onboarding-a-legacy-project-mix-monolith?r=nw9bj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Onboarding a legacy project mix monolith and microservices (1/N)

We do not start from the scratch in all occasions. Many times we have work into a legacy system, not created by us, not in the best shape, and make it shine. From where to start?

πŸ”΄New issue of The Optimist Engineer newsletter!

πŸ“ƒ I want to share with you my template for performing technical analyses. I use this template for technical analysis, as a one-pager, once I have the requirements from Product side, before jumping into the Technical Story Mapping and so on.

Download it here πŸ‘‡

https://open.substack.com/pub/optimistengineer/p/template-for-tech-analysis?r=nw9bj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Template for Tech Analysis

Navigating Software Engineering: A template for Technical Analysis, my companion for the last 5 years

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πŸ”΄New issue of The Optimist Engineer newsletter is out!

I've recently participated in an AWS region migration of services and issues happened. Having concrete observability will move your Time To Detect from hours to a few seconds

https://open.substack.com/pub/optimistengineer/p/the-importance-of-concrete-observability?r=nw9bj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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The importance of concrete observability

I've recently participated on a AWS region migration of services and issues happened. Having a concrete observability will move your Time To Detect from hours to few seconds

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