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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…