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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...
Flipping the hiring funnel from code generation to system architecture
Summer arrived, and it was time for a dinner with former colleagues. We met up in Madrid and went to a Mexican restaurant, just to change things up from the typical ‘tapas and raciones’ plan.
Of course, we talked about work. I am not sayin...
Stop Building Distributed Monoliths: How to Find Real Business Boundaries
I’ve seen teams spend (waste?) time in multiple meetings debating Kafka, Kubernetes, REST, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and every other technology under the sun.
And then fail because they didn’t understand the business they were buildin...
Shifting left your effort when working with AI
In my teams, we are in continuous evolution. Since we started using AI for all our development, we've gained a lot of insights. More to come, for sure, since we cannot consider ourselves experts.
If you're a software developer overwhelmed...
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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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