software engineering

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 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

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 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

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 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

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 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

First Graduates: How Tech Companies Promote Software Engineers

This is what I told to first graduates in the University of Oviedo

May 20 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Symptoms of Bad Software Design

4 signals that your software is badly designed and how to solve them

May 6 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Why your releases feel harder than they should

And why is the problem almost never at the time of deployment?

Apr 29 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

The Tech Lead’s Toolbox: Managing Debt and Architecture

Practical tasks to transition from solving bugs to solving system-wide problems.

Apr 1 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Software Architecture for ETLs

Hexagonal, MVC, Layers, custom, ... I tend to keep it simple

Jan 21 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Building a Product Platform Engineering Team

You must help yourself before helping others

Dec 17, 2025 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Do you need an Interface?

Most likely no, and I tell you why

Nov 26, 2025 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Should I take a certification?

It depends, as many times, but I give you a guide so you can take the right decision for your case

Oct 8, 2025 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

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