Posts, talks and readings

Posts

Getting back to the basics: Ownership
A short reflection on the importance of ownership in the software industry.
Feb 2025
Why was I rejected from my JOOR interview?
A transparency exercise to show how and why we hire the way we do them in JOOR.
Mar 2024
Getting back to the basics
Why following the latest trend is not a great idea?
Oct 2023
Theseus’s software engineering team
What makes a team a real team? How does this change in time?
Apr 2023
The lost art of writing
Writing is the most underestimated skill in the software industry.
Feb 2023

Talks

Software architecture, people and other juices
A pragmatic and experience-based presentation on software architecture, how to deal with people, and some lessons learned over the past 18 years.
Apr 2023
Zapiens: From legacy to production and beyond
What happens when one day you have a zip with code you don't know, no one to ask, and that code doesn't work? This is the story of the architecture and code changes that have taken Zapiens from a shared zip to a continuous integration environment on Amazon Web Services and to an auto-scaled system.
Apr 2018
Blunder presentation at Startup Grind Asturias
Blunder is an error-learning system in the form of a game/app that serves companies as a tool for transferring knowledge from workers. We also obtain an overview of our company's knowledge. Thanks to the forgetting curve algorithm, we achieve long-term knowledge retention in a fun way.
Aug 2015

Recommended readings

Team Topologies

Mathew Skelton, Manuel Pais

2019

Awesome material to understand the different nature of software teams and the dynamics between them.

Designing Data Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

2017

The best book I've read to help you navigate this diverse data-intensive landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing, storing, and scaling apps with massive amounts of data.