Hi IFCO! 👊 🥬
I’m happy to announce my new adventure as VP Digital for Software and Data Development at IFCO. IFCO is a German company operating globally in the Food and Supply Chain space making a better world…
Writing on engineering leadership, software, and building teams.
My long-form thoughts on management, product, engineering, and investing, collected in chronological order.
Goodbye, Qualifyze âś…
After two amazing years at Qualifyze as CPO and CTO, it’s time to say goodbye. What a ride it has been, filled with so much fun and great memories ❤️. Thank you all!
Qualifyze 2023 Retro: Tech Edition
Wow, 2023 is almost over and so many things have happened at Qualifyze! I already wrote about the work done and the achievements of the Data Team in a Qualifyze 2023 Retro: Data Edition. This…
Qualifyze 2023 Retro: Data edition
2023 at Qualifyze has been a hell of a ride in the Data area: full of decisions, problems to solve, actions taken, learnings, and achievements that are worthy to share so others can learn from them.
Domain-Driven Design in PHP book hits 3.000 readers in Leanpub and +7.000 readers on all platforms
I’m happy to announce that today, Domain-Driven Design in PHP, one of the books I wrote together with Christian Soronellas and Keyvan Akbary, has reached 3.000 readers on Leanpub.
Clone all GitHub repositories in an organization
For reviewing easily all the Qualifyze code, I wanted to clone all the GitHub repositories in the Qualifyze organization. Easy task, worthy to share.
Hi Qualifyze! âś…
I’m happy to announce my new challenge as Chief Product and Technical Officer (CPTO) at Qualifyze. Qualifyze is a B2B start-up offering hassle-free supply chain audits to manufacturers. They are…
CQRS by Example is officially finished
We did it again! Keyvan Akbary, Christian Soronellas, and I did it again! I’m super happy to announce that our new book CQRS by Example (available on Leanpub) is officially finished. We took all…
Bye CODE, AdiĂłs SEAT, TschĂĽss VW
Last Friday, I announced to all my SEAT:CODE colleagues that after 3 amazing years of such a great adventure as CEO and CTO, it’s time for me to move on. I can proudly say that the first phase of…
Kit de Supervivencia para CTOs y Engineering Managers, Slides SalmorejoTech 2022
What a nice weekend in CĂłrdoba! I was presenting at the Salmorejo Tech 2022 and managed to bring all the family (wife, and two children) with me to enjoy such a beautiful city.
Gracias, PulpoCon 2019: Eventos, MensajerĂa y otras fábulas
El pasado 7 de Septiembre, tuve el honor de participar como ponente en la PulpoCon. La jornada consiguió acercar el movimiento “crafter” y el “clean code” a más de 200 desarrolladores de Galicia y…
Techpump, mentorizando start-ups y CTOs
Ayudar a otros es algo que me hace feliz, me llena. Especialmente, si a quien ayudas es gente comprometida, son buenos alumnos y los resultados se ven pronto. Dejadme que os comparta cómo estoy…
Som Energia: What about a bit of sustainable and renewable energy?
I’m happy to announce that Som Energia, the nonprofit cooperative that produces 100% green and renewable energy, is part of the Rigor Guild customers' family.
Kave Home: First the Product, then the Tech - 3 general recommendations
Kave Home is a super trendy Spanish furniture company with current revenue of +110 MEUR growing heavily, selling online in over 13 countries, 20 physical stores, and a physical presence by…
Cash Converters: Migrating from no-framework and Code Igniter to Symfony in 1 day
What a starting of the year! We are happy to welcome Cash Converters into the Rigor Guild customer family. Wow, the family is getting big 🥰.
Filmin: API design having TVs as the user client
At Rigor Guild, we love movies! 🎞 🍿 and we are extremely happy to announce that we are helping one of the most important streaming platforms in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico. Let me introduce you…
Enreach: 2nd round!
In October 2020, Christian Soronellas and I went to visit the Enreach offices in Malaga for a 3 days workshop on microservices, hexagonal architecture, testing, and refactoring. You can read about…
Helping the Space Sector, welcome, GMV!
I’m happy to announce that GMV Innovating Solutions joins the Rigor Guild customers family. They got in touch with us after watching the «Deliveritis Aguda y Crónica» talks.
ConsultorĂa en Opositatest: Monolito o Microservicios
El pasado Marzo, Christian Soronellas y yo estuvimos en A Coruña ayudando al equipo de Opositatest con algunos de sus retos. Me gustarĂa compartir con vosotros cĂłmo ha sido el proceso de principio…
SEAT:CODE, a 2020 summary
2020 has been one of the most challenging years in all our professional careers for almost everyone working at SEAT:CODE. Not only because of the COVID context, really well explained by Lucia de…
“Deliveritis Aguda y Crónica” Slides, Videos and Summary
The past October, 30th 2020, I participated in the CAS (Conference Agile Spain) with a talk called “Deliveritis Crónica” that was a continuation of the one I gave at CTO Summit 2019 called…
Enreach: Guiding and Accelerating the Migration to a Microservices Architecture
I’m happy to announce that we have a new member of the Rigor Guild customers' family. Welcome, Enreach! Enreach provides contact technology and integrated telecom services via reselling partners…
Hola, SEAT Data Office!
Today, I’m happy to announce that on top of my SEAT:CODE responsibility, I’m also now the Head of the SEAT Data Office. It’s such an honor and responsibility!
Welcome, SEAT MĂ“!
I’m happy to announce that the new SEAT Motosharing service in Barcelona has been launched. It’s called SEAT MÓ. Its technical soul is powered by SEAT:CODE. Like a proud grandpa, let me share its…
Helping Omatech with Hexagonal Architecture and Testing on Laravel
We keep our trip on helping companies to become better! I’m happy to welcome Omatech as a new Rigor Guild customer. We have performed 12 hours of a workshop for tunning how to apply Hexagonal…
Welcome “Kent Beck,” new SEAT:CODE Challenger Reviewer
tl;dr: Comment this post with at least 10 programming hidden references in our “Kent Beck” GitHub profile about real Kent Beck!
Ansistrano 🏗 reaches 1.500.000 deployments!
I’m happy to announce that, Ansistrano, the project I created together with Christian Soronellas and Ricard Clau in 2014, has reached more than 1.5M deployments.
QaShops: PHP, Hexagonal Architecture, Doctrine, Yii2 and Domain-Driven Design
I’m happy to welcome QaShops as a new Rigor Guild customer. We are helping the company part of <vpTech/> in its challenges applying DDD and Hexagonal Architecture in its projects.
Yii2 & Doctrine ORM simple integration
This all comes from a consultancy we’re currently doing. Our client need, as a stepping-stone towards more modern architecture and a more modern software stack, to integrate Doctrine ORM into…
Solving overheating 🔥 problems for MacBook Pro with LG UltraFine 5K 27"
I have been struggling for the last two weeks with my MacBook Pro and a lot of restarting issues due to overheating. I managed to solve or mitigate the problem, and I think it’s worthy of sharing…
Auf Wiedersehen XING
I want to share with you that I’ll be leaving XING on May, 3rd. It has been a fantastic professional and personal experience. I have learned a lot from every single one of my mates, and I want to…
Ansistrano reaches 1M deployments!
ansistrano.deploy and ansistrano.rollback are Ansible Galaxy roles to easily manage the deployment process for scripting applications such as PHP, Python, and Ruby. It’s an Ansible port for…
“Domain-Driven Design Distilled” book will have a Spanish translation
This week, Vaughn Vernon, DDD guru and author of multiple books including Implementing Domain-Driven Design, Reactive Messaging Pattern with the Actor Model and Domain-Driven Design Distilled,…