Juan Ignacio Sánchez Lara Software Engineer

Passionate Software Engineer (resumé).
Remoting from Valladolid, Spain.
Interests: Engineering Management, PostgreSQL, Agile, Scala, Python, geo…

I’m also an amateur writer, behind Ignacio C. Sierra pseudonym.

December 2023 Journal

December 2023 journal, another tough month with little room for many stuff.

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November 2023 Journal

My November 2023 journal. Light month journal due to a heavy month, but with important news!

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October 2023 Journal

My October 2023 journal.

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September 2023 Journal

My September 2023 journal.

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August 2023 Journal

My August 2023 journal.

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July 2023 Journal

My July 2023 journal, dominated by Entineering Management articles, focusing on Platform. And Un verdor terrible.

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June 2023 Journal

My June 2023 journal. Includes thoughts, random opinions and interesting content that I ingested during that month. This is a light month, with some Engineering Management, games, music and reads.

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May 2023 Journal

My May 2023 journal. Includes thoughts, random opinions and interesting content that I ingested during that month. This is a light month, with some Engineering Management, games, music and reads.

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April 2023 Journal

My April 2023 journal. Includes thoughts, random opinions and interesting content that I ingested during that month. A lot of content is related to Engineering Management, but I've also added sections about games, music and reads.

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March 2023 Journal

My March 2023 journal. Includes thoughts, random opinions and interesting content that I ingested during that month. A lot of content is related to Engineering Management, but I've also added sections about games, music and reads.

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February 2023 Journal

My February 2023 journal. A short one, I'm too busy! Includes thoughts, random opinions and interesting content that I ingested during that month. A lot of content is related to Engineering Management, but I've also added sections about games, music and reads.

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Hic sunt dracones

Hic sunt dracones ("Here be dragons", in English) refers to medieval mapping. Mythological, terrifying creatures were placed un uncharted areas. That's my current status: I'm getting out of maps, and going into unexplored territories.

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January 2023 Journal

My January 2023 journal. Includes thoughts, random opinions and interesting content that I ingested during that month. A lot of content is related to Engineering Management, but I've also added sections about games, music and reads.

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Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, by Sarah Drasner

Notes and review of Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, by Sarah Drasner.

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December 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during December 2022.

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An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, by Will Larson

Notes and review of An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, by Will Larson.

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November 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during November 2022.

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August 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during August 2022.

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July 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during July 2022.

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Staff Engineer, by Will Larson

Staff Engineer book notes.

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Software economics

Software economics book review.

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Fun with maps: Felt embeds

Felt embeds are available to everybody and I had to check how awesome it would've been for the last conference I helped organizing.

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June 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during June 2022.

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May 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during May 2022.

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April 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during April 2022.

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March 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during March 2022.

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February 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during February 2022.

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January 2022 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during January 2022.

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December 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during December 2021.

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November 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during November 2021. Expect collaboration software, AWS, mapping...

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October 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during October 2021. Expect Engineering Management, PostgreSQL, Python, mapping...

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Sit tibi terra levis, Tierra

In August, 24th, I received an unexpected, sad piece of news: we were closing Tierra. This is a brief farewell.

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September 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I ingested during September 2021. Expect Engineering Management, Postgres, mapping, Elixir... and miscellaneous stuff.

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August 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I read and heard during August 2021. Expect Postgres, Engineering Management and miscellaneous stuff.

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The Manager's Manual (El manual del Manager)

Notes about The Manager's Manual book.

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July 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I read and heard during July 2021. Expect Postgres and miscellaneous stuff.

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June 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I read and heard during June 2021. Expect Postgres and miscellaneous stuff.

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May 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I read and heard during May 2021. Expect Postgres and a lot of miscellaneous stuff.

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April 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I read during April 2021. Expect PostgreSQL, React, AWS... In addition, I've begun listening to podcasts, you'll find some of those as well.

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March 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I read during March 2021. Expect PostgreSQL, React, AWS, Data visualization, OKRs...

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February 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I read during February 2021. Expect a lot of PostgreSQL, some links about feature flags and forms in React, and misc about git, Engineer Management and Clickhouse.

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January 2021 reads

Some interesting content that I read during January 2021.

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Functional Programming in Scala

Notes from the Functional Programming in Scala specialization.

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PostgreSQL recipes

Both from a gist with notes and multiple bookmarks and pending Pocket'd entries, I've collected a lot of useful stuff about PostgreSQL. Don't expect a lot of order, though :-)

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Git recipes

I've been inflating a "Git notes" gist for years with the commands that I need from time to time and that I can't manage to remember, this is a good moment for putting it in order, together with some basic notes about workflow.

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Python asyncio

After a couple of days struggling with Python async, multithreading and so on, I want to write down some notes and references at least for my future self.

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"Conventional wisdom"

Terms around functional Programming with Scala

A glossary of functional programming terms that you should master in order to have a proficient reading of code and technical texts.

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Principal Data Engineer

Description and thoughts about my current position in CARTO, now that I'm back.

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Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform specialization at Coursera

Notes about Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform Specialization course at Coursera.

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Essential Scala

Notes about Essential Scala book.

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Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems

Notes about Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems paper.

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99 Bottles of OOP Workshop

Notes, slides and code about 99 Bottles of OOP workshop

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Personal review and notes of Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Back to Linux!

Back to Linux! Here you have some notes from my migration to Ubuntu with a XPS 9570

Intellij IDEA Tips

IntelliJ IDEA is a great tool, let's get the most out of it

Peopleware 3rd Edition Review

Personal review and notes of Peopleware 3rd edition.

PostgreSQL: The one tool to bring to a desert island

TL;DR: if you don't know what your needs will be, build upon PostgreSQL. And, if you know and you pick another DB, think twice.

Do we build the right tools right?

Biased talk about how we choose techology. Do we understand the tradeoffs, or just follow trends?

Software conferences map

There is a CARTO map with many software conferences, and a Google form that you can use to contribute with more.

SQL Performance Explained by Markus Winand

Slides from the "SQL Performance Explained talk by Markus Winand" talk at Cylicon Valley.

Introduction to Location Intelligence with CartoDB

Slides from the "Introduction to Location Intelligence with CartoDB" talk at Picnic Code 2016.

Continuous Integration at CartoDB

Slides and video about the "Continuous Integration at CartoDB" talk.

My name is juanignaciosl and I code

In this first post I'll introduce myself with some links and a CartoDB Deep Insights map.