The Optimist Engineer
Marcos F. Lobo \ud83d\uddfb\ud83e\udded, JuliaExperiences, 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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[The A-Side] A Guide to SPDD: What is SPDD? Prompts as First-Class Artefacts (#166)
The industry is selling you a massive lie about AI coding assistants.
They want you to believe that typing code faster automatically equals shipping products faster.
But local speed rarely translates to global throughput… unless you have...
[The A-Side] From Junior to Tech Lead: Act Like the Role Before You Get the Title (#165)
Hi ,
Welcome to this very first issue of The Optimist Engineer with the new format.
How many times have you been fed the lie that growing in tech is just a matter of accumulating years of experience?
The truth is that waiting quietly in...
The Optimist Engineer V2
Dear reader,
As the saying goes:
Everything changes.
I think you will love this change.
For a long time, The Optimist Engineer has been a weekly conversation in the form of a single-topic essay. We have delved into design patterns, te...
🌊 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...
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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.
I show teams how to think about multilingual AI infrastructure.
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