Archive - The Optimist Engineer

May 2025

Are you chained to your job role?

Is it really possible to act as Staff Engineer without officially having the role?

May 28 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

Are you still treating your team like a family?

You are not The Brady Bunch

May 21 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

Find What You Need: A Curated Guide to My Best Content

Whether you're growing into leadership, aiming for Tech Lead, or eyeing a Staff Engineer role—this guide will help you get there faster

May 14 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

Why You Can’t Ignore Change Data Capture in Event-Driven Architectures

Sharpen your skills before AI makes you obsolete (just kidding… maybe)

May 7 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

April 2025

Your Engineering Team Just Met Data. Now What?

Engineering and Data Scientists teams meet, what can go wrong?

Apr 30 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

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Jose Parreño Garcia

Introduction to Kueue

A cloud-native job queueing system for batch, HPC and AI/ML

Apr 23 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

Review Containers Fundamentals Course

CNCF offers a Containers Fundamentals course, and I’m sharing my review after completing it.

Apr 16 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

3 Advices On How to Work with Product Managers

Apply this before is too late!

Apr 9 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

How to leverage AWS Firehose on Event-Driven Architecture

Simple tool to ingest all your domain events

Apr 2 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

March 2025

5 Aspects to Shape a Tech Lead

Recap on what to focus for promoting to Tech Lead

Mar 26 •

Marcos F. Lobo 🗻

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