Last year, we saw a shift in the natural order of things, especially within the development world. Let me explain. When I started my career, we were all…
As LinkedIn continued to grow in popularity, more and more people began using the platform to connect with others in their professional network and share updates about their…
For those who follow me here, know that I’m a big fan of Twitter and even one of the first ones with an account there, as I managed…
Let’s talk about Apple! Again, I know I know. But this time is about my Apple pet peeves. The things that I really hate about Apple devices and…
If you work in a high growth company, where the head count doubles or triples every year, or even less, then you know it’s hard to build a…
This week I spent a day with year 12 grade kids, in a workshop style approach, bringing real life scenarios for them to solve, propose solutions, use their…
Did you ever used a roadmap to build company culture and provide a communication tool for everyone? Or are you just stuck to product roadmaps as feature announcements…
I’ve been recently dealing up close with engineering teams – I’m leading one at the moment- and also with the way what we’re going to build (and setup)…
CoE, PaaS, SaaS, CI, CD, MVP, ACL, APIM, BSOD, EOF, FIFO, CDN… They’re all acronyms that most of us use every day, but my favorite ones are PEBMAC…
I still remember how complicated it was to develop applications on the late 90’s and then web applications on the early 2000’s. Back then there was no cloud,…
Recently, I’ve seen some posts and comments about career gaps. And looking at a recent LinkedIn feature, it seems like a thing they will do to help everyone…
Recently, everyone has been talking about the great resignation [1]; on how people are quitting their jobs in record numbers. Even after the pandemic, it accelerated, and people…
Few weeks ago, Portugal was targeted by hackers and a large newsgroup was hacked – or better, erased -, another one was disrupted and a critical infrastructure provider…
It feels like everyone in technology have a hobby nowadays! From what I’ve seen on pretty much of the social networks, it’s quite trendy to have a side…
It’s been over 2 years of covid and back to work is on everyone’s mind, coffee machines are being warmed up, desks moved and emails being fired asking…
At the beginning of the last decade I was lucky enough to work for one of the largest communication and PR companies in Portugal, where I learned a…
For those who have been following me for years, know that I’m a big fan of Alexa – the voice assistant from Amazon. Not only a fan, but…
Predicting something in today’s day and age is quite hard. Specially because times are fast changing and tech is moving at warp speed. For this year, my three…
I’ve been a drone pilot for some time now. Since my Phantom 3 and now with my Mavic Zoom 2 – which I love it! I have already…
2021 was the year where we got the best performance per watt CPU on the market: the apple M1. But it was also the year that Intel got…
There is a psychological model by which it describes the steps humans take when they interact with computer systems. This model can be used to help evaluate if…
There are lots of reasons for people and business to choose you, your work, product or services, over other available options and competitors, but it’s your ability to…
We all love buzzwords! Especially security folks that for the past decade found ways to bring design and marketing together. Just look at the ransomware designs, or logos…
The Timex Sinclair 2048 was my first computer, ever. It’s the reason why I work in technology and why I do indeed love so much this world, even…
There are some things in life that this pandemic changed, for sure and in a way that we’re still to understand. Tech Talks London is a show that…
Is really event driven architecture a buzz or actually a new idea? Indeed, it’s not something new. From complex event processing to the hardware interrupts of the UNIVAC, computers have been…
No code? No worries! That’s how many of the no-code or even low-code platforms marketing themselves. But the purpose of no-code platforms is to make things easier for…
All these new microservice-based architecture became a standard for designing a modular scalable software architecture. You will face, at certain moment of growth, challenges of splitting monolithic applications…
We are currently in a world where friends don’t let friends build datacentres, where the cloud needs to be first and where serverless is the new gold standard…
Did you know that effective roadmaps can help an organization make deliberate choices about a products’ development? But either you’re writing or reading a roadmap, you still have…
We all know that most projects fail. Some of them even fail multiple times. But is there a way to actually reduce this rate and likelihood of failure?…
What is value? How do we achieve value in a product? These are some of the things people think when they talk about value products. But values are…
Agile isn’t something new. Actually, everyone in the industry thinks they do some sort of agile, even if sometimes it’s a masked version of waterfall. But one of…
Everyone today wants collaboration to work. It’s important then to ask the right questions or give space for others to ask them. Harnessing the skills and independent thinking…
The world now is quite complex, like it never was before. Not because only of the current pandemic, markets moving fast, but also companies have more complex operations…
Performance reviews are sometimes worse than filling timesheets. Not because managers have to do them, but rather because it requires an alignment between current company objectives, individual personal…
Agile, scrum, devops and all other abstract solutions are common terms nowadays in companies, startups and development teams. But the problem is that expectations are always set too…
2020 has been a very though year for everyone. From disrupting companies, life’s and families, the change that this pandemic brought is here to stay. This episode is…
For those following me here on the blog, might have noticed that I’ve been complaining about Dell lately. First of modern standby, then about the WiFi from KillerNetworking…
Most – if not all – Dell XPS model have a wifi/bluetooth card that comes from Killer Networking. As the name says, it kills most of your laptop…
In short, Dell is screwing around Windows Modern Standby (CS3) and with Windows 10 20H2 some power options are removed. So what we would do before with power…
Every leader wants to get the best performance from their team. In companies, the importance of learning on the job and continuous employee development can’t be overstated. But…
We are currently working remotely and a lot of companies are already positioning themselves as a remote first ones. So managers need to rethink the way they measure…
You can do dense documents, using the SMART goals, held weekly meetings, use a multitude of tools, but the magic metric in companies in my opinion are clear…
A lot of people talk about how tough it is to work with developers, especially if you come from a non-technical background. So on this video I’ll talk…
Influencers are the new QVC people. If you look at it, what we are now seeing is a new rebranding of the old days of telesales. And now…
Funny thing that a few years ago, I worked at a company that was using the mantra of “no ticket not task”, which lead me to write a…
There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products….
There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products….