eBook: How to Lead the AI Revolution in Your Industry

GenAI, represents a revolutionary leap in artificial intelligence, empowering businesses to redefine their operations and unlock unprecedented value. Unlike the traditional AI, which primarily focuses on pattern recognition…

NAT: Datacentre of the Future

You know, it’s funny how things come full circle. We started with massive, expensive monoliths in the IT world. Then, along came cloud computing to disrupt the scene….

NAT: The Anatomy of an AI Agent

Soon we’ll all be in the Matrix, with agents doing our work. Hopefully, none of them will be like Agent Smith. Jokes aside, AI Agents are a growing focus…

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NAT: Generative AI Operations

We’re currently in a world where everyone (you, me and enterprises) are adopting Generative AI to help solve many complex use cases with natural language instructions.  In plain…

NAT: Datacentre as Critical Infrastructure

We know that a hospital, school, government buildings, roads, bridges, electricity, water, are the core components of a Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). If something goes wrong with any…

NAT: Private Cloud Compute What?!

So there was Public Cloud, Government Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, but Apple had to come up with something new, the Private Cloud Compute. Like we need to…

NAT: NVIDIA’s Icarus feathers and wax

We all know Icarus, the story from Greek mythology… It’s the tells of a young man who flew too close to the sun with wings made of feathers…

The Remote GenAI Worker

“Remote workers are now more susceptible to automation due to their tasks being digital” – I disagree. Whilst this might be true that Generative AI can assist in…

NAT: Situational Awareness

We all have that friend that is usually not aware of how awkward and cringe he or she is, right? Sometimes, they can’t read the room. Heck, I…

NAT: Estimations are always wrong

Let’s admit it! Estimations aren’t for everyone, right? If you’re watching this, chances are that you’re doing SCRUM, which at certain point you struggled to estimate work, even…

The Tech Burden of Knowledge

Interesting article by Maxwell Tabarrok, where he criticises the notion that accumulating knowledge inevitably makes it harder to find new ideas. The burden of Knowledge Theory suggests that…

GenAI in Test Driven Development

Everyone’s moving fast today. In Software Development we want everything to be lean, agile, automated, configurable, scripted, resilient, scalable… cheap and fast. Now there’s this new thing called…

WordStar – the best Word Processor

You don’t need to believe in me, just look at the famous writers that still use it! Developed by MicroPro International, WordStar is often considered one of the…

Value Streams

The other day I was talking to a customer about the value of a Value Stream approach for their organization. We tend to focus way more on tech,…

Time-Series LLM

The other day, I gave a short presentation to a manufacturing client where I highlighted our work with Time-Series LLMs, which we use for advanced predictive maintenance to…

NAT: Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA)

Imagine having a versatile tool used across various industries to pre-emptively recognize and resolve issues before they become larger problems. I mean, imagine a way to identify where…

Digital Operational Resilient Explorer

Welcome to DORA, no, no, not the explorer! But rather a new European Law that aims to be a game-changing framework for the financial sector. It’s like the…

Read Before Monday

Feels like it was yesterday (in 2016!!) that I launched the “Read Before Monday” articles, which were a curation of things I found interesting and would give my…

Generative Retail Revolution

It’s the brink of retail revolution! Isn’t it? And now powered by Generative AI. From enhancing product design to optimizing supply chains, and from transforming marketing strategies to…

Dr. Sbaitso with Generative AI

Remember Dr. Sbaitso, an artificial intelligence program designed as a digital psychologist, made by Creative Labs and introduced in the early 90s for DOS – you know the…

PrintScreen Magazine

Back in 2007, this website was a blog aggregator and we asked a few of the bloggers to resume their 2007. The result was this number zero of…

Throwback: Learning French from Joystick Magazine

It was Easter vacation in Portugal, back in 1993, when I started learning proper French. Why do I recall that so well? Because it was a few months…

NAT: Thinking Inside the Box

Most people talk about thinking “outside of the box” as an idiomatic expression encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving that goes beyond traditional boundaries or norms. It’s about innovation…

Modern Wisdom

For me, the Three Wise Monkeys were always a visual representation, a reminder of some bigger values, the ethical culture which I always brought to any work environment…

NAT: Generative Shoe Machinery

Just as the Industrial Revolution transformed my grandparents from shoemakers into artisans operating machinery, this new age of AI is changing the landscape for developers. In the near…

NAT: Copilot everything, all at once

Copilot everything, everywhere, all at once. It’s not the sequel, bur rather what Microsoft presented us recently! Could easily be the plot for world dominance, again, but it’s…

UK airport confiscates passenger’s Flipper Zero

Yup, That’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation… But here is the story behind the news: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/gatwick-airport-seizes-flipper-zero/ For those who follow me on Twitter and…

NAT: Friday Afternoon Deployments

Ah, the good old times of when the “no one ever got fired for buying IBM” – was a thing. Remember that? Then the next one was the…

NAT: Go-To-Market Strategy

GTM or Go-To-Market is that business slang that is also trendy, sounds good and it goes around in the business world. It’s sophisticated and modern. Yet its overuse…

NAT: Estimations and Expectations

Estimations and expectations, today’s modern source of most of tech problems, right? No matter what tools, processes, methods, techniques and software we use to aid, address or solve…

NAT: Propaganda in the Digital Age

We live in a fast-paced digital age, where everyone lives in their own echo chamber, but the tactics and techniques of propaganda have been improved, refined and expanded….

NAT: Technical Debt IRL

We are living in a world saturated with technical debt! I’m not just talking about the software we produce, but rather have it on our normal daily life….

NAT: Product Lead Transformation

Some of you might have noticed by now that I have several videos already on the “Now About This” channel discussing product and transformation, and the intersection between…

NAT: Generative Agent Smith

Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence, with trailblazers like ChatGPT reshaping how we perceive and understand technology and the world. So a recent study from Stanford introduced us…

NAT: Prompt Operators

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…

NAT: chatGPT made this video

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…

NAT: Build protocols, not platforms

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…

NAT: Let’s talk about Apple

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…

NAT: Growing Teams and Culture

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…

NAT: Work Ready For Students

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…

NAT: Building Roadmaps

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…

NAT: Building Feature Teams

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)…

NAT: Acronyms & Business Jargon

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…

NAT: Cloud Minimum Viable Product

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,…

NAT: Career Gaps Explained

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…

The Resignation of Agile

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…

NAT: Crisis Management

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…

NAT: Hobbies in Technology

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…

NAT: Back to the Office?

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…