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.
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.
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.
Notes and review of Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, by Sarah Drasner.
Some interesting content that I ingested during December 2022.
Notes and review of An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, by Will Larson.
Some interesting content that I ingested during November 2022.
Some interesting content that I ingested during August 2022.
Some interesting content that I ingested during July 2022.
Staff Engineer book notes.
Software economics book review.
Felt embeds are available to everybody and I had to check how awesome it would've been for the last conference I helped organizing.
Some interesting content that I ingested during June 2022.
Some interesting content that I ingested during May 2022.
Some interesting content that I ingested during April 2022.
Some interesting content that I ingested during March 2022.
Some interesting content that I ingested during February 2022.
Some interesting content that I ingested during January 2022.
Some interesting content that I ingested during December 2021.
Some interesting content that I ingested during November 2021. Expect collaboration software, AWS, mapping...
Some interesting content that I ingested during October 2021. Expect Engineering Management, PostgreSQL, Python, mapping...
In August, 24th, I received an unexpected, sad piece of news: we were closing Tierra. This is a brief farewell.
Some interesting content that I ingested during September 2021. Expect Engineering Management, Postgres, mapping, Elixir... and miscellaneous stuff.
Some interesting content that I read and heard during August 2021. Expect Postgres, Engineering Management and miscellaneous stuff.
Notes about The Manager's Manual book.
Some interesting content that I read and heard during July 2021. Expect Postgres and miscellaneous stuff.
Some interesting content that I read and heard during June 2021. Expect Postgres and miscellaneous stuff.
Some interesting content that I read and heard during May 2021. Expect Postgres and a lot of miscellaneous stuff.
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.
Some interesting content that I read during March 2021. Expect PostgreSQL, React, AWS, Data visualization, OKRs...
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.
Some interesting content that I read during January 2021.
Notes from the Functional Programming in Scala specialization.
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 :-)
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.
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.
A glossary of functional programming terms that you should master in order to have a proficient reading of code and technical texts.
Description and thoughts about my current position in CARTO, now that I'm back.
Notes about Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform Specialization course at Coursera.
Notes about Essential Scala book.
Notes about Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems paper.
Notes, slides and code about 99 Bottles of OOP workshop
Personal review and notes of Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Back to Linux! Here you have some notes from my migration to Ubuntu with a XPS 9570
IntelliJ IDEA is a great tool, let's get the most out of it
Personal review and notes of Peopleware 3rd edition.
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.
Biased talk about how we choose techology. Do we understand the tradeoffs, or just follow trends?
There is a CARTO map with many software conferences, and a Google form that you can use to contribute with more.
Slides from the "SQL Performance Explained talk by Markus Winand" talk at Cylicon Valley.
Slides from the "Introduction to Location Intelligence with CartoDB" talk at Picnic Code 2016.
Slides and video about the "Continuous Integration at CartoDB" talk.
In this first post I'll introduce myself with some links and a CartoDB Deep Insights map.
