João Alves
@joaoqalves.net
2x Dad. Husband. Head of Engineering @Adevinta. Building abistama.com and rotahog.com
Opinions are my own. Writes in PT/ES/EN/CAT
Opinions are my own. Writes in PT/ES/EN/CAT
A tí por la charla! Muy buena
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A tí por la charla! Muy buena
One sad thing is that I’m Portuguese, and we tend to write long sentences, list things, use a lot of adjectives… apparently this is also a trait of ChatGPT somehow 😢 Not nice.
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
One sad thing is that I’m Portuguese, and we tend to write long sentences, list things, use a lot of adjectives… apparently this is also a trait of ChatGPT somehow 😢 Not nice.
Usually, my flow is:
1. Something happens at work or a friend tells me a story about theirs and we discuss
2. I think about that thing for 1 week to 3 months. Mostly when I’m taking a shower 😅
3. Then I can write an article in less than one hour.
1. Something happens at work or a friend tells me a story about theirs and we discuss
2. I think about that thing for 1 week to 3 months. Mostly when I’m taking a shower 😅
3. Then I can write an article in less than one hour.
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Usually, my flow is:
1. Something happens at work or a friend tells me a story about theirs and we discuss
2. I think about that thing for 1 week to 3 months. Mostly when I’m taking a shower 😅
3. Then I can write an article in less than one hour.
1. Something happens at work or a friend tells me a story about theirs and we discuss
2. I think about that thing for 1 week to 3 months. Mostly when I’m taking a shower 😅
3. Then I can write an article in less than one hour.
The sequel is out. Four new "disasters” I've seen first-hand:
#7 more services than engineers
#8 the gateway to hell
#9 technology sprawl
#10 when the org chart becomes your architecture
Full post: world.hey.com/joaoqalves/...
#7 more services than engineers
#8 the gateway to hell
#9 technology sprawl
#10 when the org chart becomes your architecture
Full post: world.hey.com/joaoqalves/...
Disasters I've seen in a microservices world, part II
When I first wrote about microservice disasters, I thought we'd eventually "solve" them, with better tooling, frameworks, and operational maturity. We didn't. We just learned to live with the chaos. Distributed systems will always surprise you: timeouts, retries, and fallacies don't disappear; they just shift shape. Maybe that's the re...
world.hey.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The sequel is out. Four new "disasters” I've seen first-hand:
#7 more services than engineers
#8 the gateway to hell
#9 technology sprawl
#10 when the org chart becomes your architecture
Full post: world.hey.com/joaoqalves/...
#7 more services than engineers
#8 the gateway to hell
#9 technology sprawl
#10 when the org chart becomes your architecture
Full post: world.hey.com/joaoqalves/...
At @Adevinta, I didn’t want great work to stay invisible. So I started talking about what we built, encouraged others in 1:1s, and celebrated every post, talk, or shared lesson.
“Build and talk” became a habit, and a growth loop. Full article: bit.ly/4nZPWpt
“Build and talk” became a habit, and a growth loop. Full article: bit.ly/4nZPWpt
Karpathy is wrong. Write that post, build that slide deck!
This week, Dwarkesh Patel interviewed Andrej Karpathy and covered the future trajectory of Artificial Intelligence (AI). For those who don't know, Karpathy is a leading AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI. There's one particular part of the interview that's getting quoted everywhere: People are interpreting that quote as "don't writ...
world.hey.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
At @Adevinta, I didn’t want great work to stay invisible. So I started talking about what we built, encouraged others in 1:1s, and celebrated every post, talk, or shared lesson.
“Build and talk” became a habit, and a growth loop. Full article: bit.ly/4nZPWpt
“Build and talk” became a habit, and a growth loop. Full article: bit.ly/4nZPWpt