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Symptoms of Bad Software Design
4 signals that your software is badly designed and how to solve them
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
Measuring your performance as Tech Lead
People tell you you're doing good; Do you?
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
Software Engineer’s Roadmap to Leadership
7-step guide to help you reach your goal faster
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 and Gábor Till
Technical Leadership Responsibilities
7 responsibilities for the Tech Lead role by area of influence
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
Your First Step to Engineering Leadership: Becoming a Senior Dev
Why Becoming Senior Dev is the First Step to Leadership
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 and Adler Hsieh
Stop Coding Tasks, Start Designing Systems
How to shift your mindset from "how it works" to "why it matters" to grow your career
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
Software Architecture for ETLs
Hexagonal, MVC, Layers, custom, ... I tend to keep it simple
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
Incremental Platforms: Monolithic Modular Architecture
Single deployment but with a clear separation into modules or components
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
Do you need an Interface?
Most likely no, and I tell you why
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
How to achieve a golden CI/CD pipeline
With consensus and decoupling
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
The Hidden Force Slowing Your Deploys
Uncover the silent dependency trap that keeps your applications from reaching production effortlessly
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
Start Small, Scale Smart: The Real Value of Incremental Architecture
A practical guide to designing software that can evolve as fast as you do
 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭
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