Let’s admit it. Code reviews are bottlenecks. Most code reviewers are gatekeepers. By controlling and ultimately deciding what gets into the main branch they slow down the entire process — screwing the original estimates and jeopardizing the sprint. I am myself often a gatekeeper.

How many times in your software development career have you heard the following quote? If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Also known as The law of the instrument or golden hammer this quote by Abraham Maslow describes a…

I hate notifications. I hate having my attention and focus withdrawn by that tiny little number or red dot on the doc or on the corner of the page I am working on, that hijacks my intentions to something else every time I pick up my phone, that instills in…

Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to adversity or change. Generally speaking in software engineering, resilience means that your system/application is able to withstand a failure in one of its components, work nevertheless, and eventually recover in a reasonable manner and acceptable duration. Chaos Engineering is…

With every day more new people learning to code, and new developers starting a blog and with Blogging being so important for your professional growth and your personal brand, I decided to share some tips I realized to be a winning strategy over many years of blogging. Here it goes…

Whenever I tell this to my kids and come back 5 minutes later, I go crazy because the floor is still covered by socks, pencils and basically any other toy which is not a Lego. What did I say? Tidy up your room! …

“Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.” Jocko Willink I love this quote, and I think about it everytime I feel lazy or tired and I don´t want to wake up early…

Jinx or Cassandra? What’s the difference? Well… Cassandra was right! **