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Napkin AI tool
Struggling making visuals for your workflows?
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Template For Tracking Performance Review
Simple template to record your path to a successful Performance Review
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9 Tools To Develop Software For Cloud
Each ecosystem requires a different tool set, and your belt must be well prepared. Developing applications for a Kubernetes environment is no exception
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Handy Kafka commands
Managing Apache Kafka clusters from a developer perspective when we are implementing code or troubleshooting in production environments
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Handy Kubernetes commands
Handy Kubernetes commands for difficult situations
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Template Architecture Decision Records
You may had the feeling that you made some changes and today you do not remember anymore why. This happens to me and Architecture Decision Records…
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Template for tracking adoption of platform feature
Platform teams release features that should be adopted by feature teams and it's important to track the adoption
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Book review: Clean Architecture
I've recently read the Clean Architecture book and I share my impressions with you and in which aspects I see it useful
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Template On-Call
The benefit of on-call rotations in SaaS companies is to ensure continuous platform availability and reliability and having the right on-call record…
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Template Eisenhower Matrix
Prioritizing is one of the most difficult responsibilities. Quite often we are under the water due to the amount of things we have. Here is an…
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Template for Tech Analysis
Navigating Software Engineering: A template for Technical Analysis, my companion for the last 5 years
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Template for 1-on-1s
Even though 1-on-1s are expected by the Engineering Manager, it's healthy for a Tech Lead to have 1-on-1s with their team as well, in order to address…
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