The Optimist Engineer
Marcos F. Lobo \ud83d\uddfb\ud83e\udded, Jorge Castaño, Julia | Taking you globalExperiences, learnings, and inspiration about Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, and Technical Growth, with a bit of optimism. Interesting for Tech Leads and software makers from Startups to medium-sized companies.
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🌊 Summertime is here 2026 - get rest
Dear reader,
As usual, I take the whole of August to rest and recharge my batteries.
This means that you should not expect new issues during this month.
On this ocassion, I will not write here the list of the TOP issues at this point. Wh...
Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. III: Ironclad Access & Security
The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.
— Cristof, The Truman Show
A safe place is important in technology as well, and you cannot ask every single user to implement security on...
Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. II: Zero-Friction Delivery
We happy?… Vincent!… We happy?
We’re happy.
— Jules and Vincent, Pulp Fiction
Your users don’t need to know how their MCP Server reaches Production, but they need to know that there is a way that satisfies their needs.
In the...
Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. I: Keep Deployment Simple
Welcome, to the real world.
— Morpheus, Matrix
All the tutorials on YouTube tell you how to deploy an MCP server locally and, sometimes, even in the Cloud.
All of them have the same problem: They don’t solve a real-world problem. T...
How to ship software with confidence - The Pillars
One of the hardest parts of software engineering is not building software. It is shipping it with confidence.
Because releasing software should not feel like a coin toss, especially not on a Friday at 6 p.m., when everybody is already ment...
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Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 20+ years of experience. Currently building a SaaS product on a cloud-based microservices architecture. Previously worked at CERN managing OpenStack services in the IT CLOUD group.
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