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Building an Enterprise MCP Platform - Vol. I: Keep Deployment Simple
Moving past local terminal setups to build a centralized cloud infrastructure that scales across your entire organization without over-engineering.
22 hrs ago
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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How to ship software with confidence - The Pillars
The pillars for making releases without feeling like you're gambling with a coin every Friday afternoon.
Jul 8
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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Flipping the hiring funnel from code generation to system architecture
How to restructure your technical evaluation to find engineers who think about dependencies rather than typing speed.
Jul 2
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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June 2026
Stop Building Distributed Monoliths: How to Find Real Business Boundaries
How to avoid technical coupling and design independent software that match your organization.
Jun 24
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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Shifting left your effort when working with AI
When you start working with AI, more code is generated, and many more pull requests need to be reviewed. That's your bottleneck today, right? Let me…
Jun 17
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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The importance of adapting the message to the listener
Have you ever struggled in a meeting because the conversation deviated from the original purpose? Maybe your message was not meant for your target…
Jun 11
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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Scale Up your Start Up
Compilation of lessons for scaling up your Start Up
Jun 3
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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May 2026
First Graduates: How Tech Companies Promote Software Engineers
This is what I told to first graduates in the University of Oviedo
May 20
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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Your CI Pipeline Doesn’t Speak Spanish. Let’s Fix That
Internationalization as a platform capability — and what it looks like when it’s baked into your pipeline
May 13
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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Julia | Taking you global
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Symptoms of Bad Software Design
4 signals that your software is badly designed and how to solve them
May 6
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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April 2026
Why your releases feel harder than they should
And why is the problem almost never at the time of deployment?
Apr 29
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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Why "Why Not?" is a Critical Engineering Skill
A personal story about losing stability, taking a risk, and learning to operate without a clear roadmap
Apr 22
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Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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