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Innovation compounds
How do you get to effective innovation at an organization or company? Well, by innovating of course. Hidden in that cheeky answer is a real insight that’s easy to overlook: innovation isn’t a one-time event. It’s a practice. A habit. Something you should be doing regularly. Kind of like going…
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What’s the HTTP to the TCP/IP of MCP?
MCP is all the rage right now, and rightfully so if you ask me. As agents step into the spotlight as a promising pathway for deeply embedding AI into our lives (at companies and homes) MCP promises to be the plumbing that makes these systems interoperable and useful. Some have…
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«You are going into sales? Seriously?»
Yes, seriously! Sales is a helping profession about deeply understanding someone else’s problem and guiding them to a better outcome. What’s not to like?
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Is it trunk-based development time already?
A tsunami erupted recently when an outreageous post questioned an almost religious practice in software development. Nowadays, at least. There was a strong rebuttal to an already strong (yet widely accepted) post about the merits of Trunk-Based Development (TBD) versus Feature-Based Development. This exchange was caught by many in the…
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Run on Kubernetes
Do you want to truly leverage the cloud as a platform for deploying modern applications? Run on Kubernetes Many are still unsure of how to balance flexibility, cost, security, and scalability in their cloud infrastructure. For me, Kubernetes offers one of the best options for running cloud-native applications. And this…
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Exergy & Tarpit Ideas
Most have seen bright-eyed founders passionately pitching their latest idea—an idea that seems reasonable, gains some initial traction, and yet, somehow, never quite transforms into a sustainable business. The idea shows promise and a brilliant team worked hard on it, so why didn’t it work out? Sometimes this can be…
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Tasking Background Workers
When building a software product, I’ve always found it indispensable to have reliable escape lanes that can be taken while in growth pain to win some time. One of those reliable mechanisms that provides workarounds and different alternatives is background workers and tasks. Whether you’re processing user-generated data, sending out…
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Exception Handling in Organizations
While continuously refining roles and information flows in an organization, covering the regular and non-erroneous situations is usually a handful. Nonetheless, dynamic scenarios and anomalies are a regular thing for most companies and, as a consequence, they end up being handled ad-hoc. Or not handled at all. In programming, when…
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Feature Flags
One of the most important techniques to me in building digital products on the web is using feature flags. When used correctly, it brings adaptability where it’s most needed, enabling a powerful alignment between product and development. So it might be interesting to go through some things that I learned…
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Amazing Data Visualization
Crafting stories that capture people’s attention and that can effectively convey a message is one of the most powerful skills you can have. Yuval Noah Harari argues it’s our species’ superpower. One tool that is getting ever-increasingly better for storytelling is data visualization. And I hope AI blows it out of the water,…
Juan Saavedra 