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2024 ²⁷

October ¹

Learnings from the book Hidden Potential

Created: October 19, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

September ²

My First Telescope: Stargazing on a Budget with Celestron Travel Scope 80

Created: September 23, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Lifestyle

Enhance GitLab Release Notes with Automated Library Changelogs

Created: September 16, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

August ²

Navigating a Major Spring Boot Upgrade: Key Takeaways

Created: August 27, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Backwards compatible migration for Spring Batch 5 params table

Created: August 19, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

July ⁴

90% of distributed traces observability gone after Spring Boot upgrade

Created: July 17, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

How upgrading from Spring Boot 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 broke our object mapper

Created: July 15, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Goals and purposes for the next year

Created: July 7, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Self Improvement

Learnings from the book The Comfort Crisis

Created: July 1, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

June ⁴

Migration from Netflix Zuul to Spring Cloud Gateway Server MVC

Created: June 27, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

My Pillars of Health: Guidelines to help me live healthier and better

Created: June 24, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Lifestyle

Learnings from the book A Guide to the Good Life

Created: June 17, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

The Best of Dubai: A review of all that we did and liked the most

Created: June 2, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Travel

May ³

Dubai Desert Safari: Is it worth it?

Created: May 27, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Travel

Learnings from the book The Good Enough Job

Created: May 26, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Created: May 16, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

April ³

How to Migrate Spring Boot from 2.7 to 3.2: A detailed migration guide

Created: April 27, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Migrating Spring Sleuth to Micrometer Observability in Spring Boot 3

Created: April 11, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Replacing deprecated @EnableResourceServer with Spring Security

Created: April 1, 2024 · Modified: November 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

March ²

Hiking the Tunnel Bluffs from Lions Bay trail

Created: March 23, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Adventures

Hiking BCMC Trail in Winter

Created: March 6, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Adventures

February ³

Learnings from the book Outlive

Created: February 26, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book An Immense World

Created: February 20, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Root causes are usually simpler than they appear

Created: February 3, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

January ³

Learnings from the book Clear Thinking

Created: January 15, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Relaxing in a cozy log cabin in Forest Grove - BC

Created: January 13, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Travel

The best 5 books read in 2023: They may deserve a spot on your list

Created: January 3, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

2023 ³⁷

December ⁷

Cancun all-inclusive Resort: We felt like kings

Created: December 31, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Travel

Learnings from the book The Five Invitations

Created: December 30, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Same as Ever

Created: December 24, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Pro Spring 6

Created: December 23, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

RabbitMQ Tips: The importance of poisonous message handling for DLQs

Created: December 18, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

The top 5 podcasts that captivated my ears and mind in 2023

Created: December 11, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Lifestyle

We added cash to the portfolio and here is why

Created: December 2, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

November ³

Return to the office or not? Positive points of each

Created: November 25, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Work

Learnings from the book Four Thousand Weeks

Created: November 4, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

How Dependabot is helping us keep our dependencies up to date

Created: November 4, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

October ¹

Learnings from the book Atomic Habits

Created: October 14, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

September ²

My Software Engineering Philosophy: Principles that guide my work-life

Created: September 13, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Learnings from the book Never Split the Difference

Created: September 11, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

August ⁵

Learnings from the book Foundations of Scalable Systems

Created: August 22, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

One year in 15 seconds: 4 Seasons Timelapse of Vancouver

Created: August 20, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Travel

Canadian Rockie Mountains Camping Trip: Jasper and Banff in 6 nights

Created: August 14, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Travel

Insights from Mentorship: Three Key Learnings

Created: August 14, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Learnings from the book Excellent Advice for Living

Created: August 2, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

July ³

Learnings from the book Song of Significance

Created: July 25, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

How I am using the Daily Questions to focus on what is important to me

Created: July 18, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Self Improvement

Learnings from the book Quit

Created: July 6, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

June ²

Learnings from the book Think Again

Created: June 28, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

The importance of the prefetch count in RabbiMQ consumers

Created: June 24, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

May ²

Learnings from the book The Staff Engineer’s Path

Created: May 16, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

RabbitMQ Quorum queues definition arguments

Created: May 2, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

April ³

Learnings from the book The Earned Life

Created: April 21, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book RabbitMQ in Depth

Created: April 6, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Extreme Ownership

Created: April 2, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

March ²

Learnings from the book Being Mortal

Created: March 24, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Mastering Distributed Tracing

Created: March 4, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

February ³

Learnings from the book Why We Sleep

Created: February 20, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Why did I stop drinking coffee after 12 PM and so should you

Created: February 11, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Lifestyle

Learnings from the book How will you measure your life?

Created: February 4, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

January ⁴

Learnings from the book Mistakes were made (but not by me)

Created: January 30, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Distributed Tracing in Practice

Created: January 24, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Observability Basics

Created: January 21, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Learnings from the book Let’s talk about death (over dinner)

Created: January 1, 2023 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

2022 ³⁴

December ²

The ‘Learnings from books’ series

Created: December 29, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Learnings from Books

Why we decided to index all portfolio

Created: December 13, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

November ¹

Cache in a microservice environment: A short overview

Created: November 7, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

October ²

Platform team: What it does and how it helps the company grows

Created: October 26, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Our First Thanksgiving: A Journey Through Tradition and Flavors

Created: October 25, 2022 · Modified: October 15, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Culinary

September ³

Why we decided to add ETF to our portfolio: Hedging ourselves

Created: September 14, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

How We Manage Money as a Couple: A Clear and Practical Approach

Created: September 11, 2022 · Modified: September 17, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

PostgreSQL’s GIN index: Long random queries can happen on data updates

Created: September 10, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

July ¹

Leadership lessons from Ted Lasso TV show

Created: July 12, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Leadership

June ³

25 takeaways from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Created: June 7, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

New to Canada Guide: Guide for a more smooth experience

Created: June 4, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Immigration

RabbitMQ High Availability: Tips to make your message broker better

Created: June 4, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

May ¹¹

Interview Preparation to help you get better Software Engineering jobs

Created: May 17, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Porter’s 5 forces: How to identify stocks with competitive advantages

Created: May 15, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

What is your investment horizon? Why is important to know yours

Created: May 15, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

Learn from Buffett’s mistakes on the first 20 years of Berkshire

Created: May 14, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

Warren Buffett drinks and Coca-Cola, how his investments began in 1988

Created: May 12, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

Hot-cold empathy gap in investing: How this bias affect your decisions

Created: May 11, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Psychology

CELPIP-G Speaking Tips

Created: May 11, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Immigration

The 20 Most Important Things by Howard Marks

Created: May 10, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

Choosing Service Level Objective(SLO): Lessons from Google’s team

Created: May 4, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

13 Attributes of a Perfect Company by Peter Lynch

Created: May 2, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

Sunk cost fallacy: Keep people in bad jobs, unhappy marriages and more

Created: May 1, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Psychology

April ⁶

Morgan Housel’s 5 Best Quotes: The second quote is my favorite

Created: April 30, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

6 Principles of a Rule Breaker Portfolio (Innovative and Disruptive)

Created: April 24, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

6 tips on how to invest according to Rule Breaker Investing

Created: April 23, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

Pact Contract Testing flow on a CI pipeline

Created: April 18, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

10 important investment advices from Warren Buffett

Created: April 17, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

What Are Compounders? Understanding the Power for Long-Term Investing

Created: April 11, 2022 · Modified: October 15, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

February ²

Using Pact for Consumer-Driven Contract Testing

Created: February 19, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Contract Testing: Helping your microservices keep communicating

Created: February 6, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

January ³

What is it that makes bad code smell so bad?

Created: January 29, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Reflections on Clean Code: Insights from Uncle Bob and Others

Created: January 22, 2022 · Modified: September 23, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Building My Blog: The Platform and Tech Stack

Created: January 8, 2022 · Modified: November 12, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Google Anaytics (functional)

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October 1

Learnings from the book Hidden Potential

September 2

My First Telescope: Stargazing on a Budget with Celestron Travel Scope 80

Enhance GitLab Release Notes with Automated Library Changelogs

August 2

Navigating a Major Spring Boot Upgrade: Key Takeaways

Backwards compatible migration for Spring Batch 5 params table

July 4

90% of distributed traces observability gone after Spring Boot upgrade

How upgrading from Spring Boot 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 broke our object mapper

Goals and purposes for the next year

Learnings from the book The Comfort Crisis

June 4

Migration from Netflix Zuul to Spring Cloud Gateway Server MVC

My Pillars of Health: Guidelines to help me live healthier and better

Learnings from the book A Guide to the Good Life

The Best of Dubai: A review of all that we did and liked the most

May 3

Dubai Desert Safari: Is it worth it?

Learnings from the book The Good Enough Job

Learnings from the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications

April 3

How to Migrate Spring Boot from 2.7 to 3.2: A detailed migration guide

Migrating Spring Sleuth to Micrometer Observability in Spring Boot 3

Replacing deprecated @EnableResourceServer with Spring Security

March 2

Hiking the Tunnel Bluffs from Lions Bay trail

Hiking BCMC Trail in Winter

February 3

Learnings from the book Outlive

Learnings from the book An Immense World

Root causes are usually simpler than they appear

January 3

Learnings from the book Clear Thinking

Relaxing in a cozy log cabin in Forest Grove - BC

The best 5 books read in 2023: They may deserve a spot on your list

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December 7

Cancun all-inclusive Resort: We felt like kings

Learnings from the book The Five Invitations

Learnings from the book Same as Ever

Learnings from the book Pro Spring 6

RabbitMQ Tips: The importance of poisonous message handling for DLQs

The top 5 podcasts that captivated my ears and mind in 2023

We added cash to the portfolio and here is why

November 3

Return to the office or not? Positive points of each

Learnings from the book Four Thousand Weeks

How Dependabot is helping us keep our dependencies up to date

October 1

Learnings from the book Atomic Habits

September 2

My Software Engineering Philosophy: Principles that guide my work-life

Learnings from the book Never Split the Difference

August 5

Learnings from the book Foundations of Scalable Systems

One year in 15 seconds: 4 Seasons Timelapse of Vancouver

Canadian Rockie Mountains Camping Trip: Jasper and Banff in 6 nights

Insights from Mentorship: Three Key Learnings

Learnings from the book Excellent Advice for Living

July 3

Learnings from the book Song of Significance

How I am using the Daily Questions to focus on what is important to me

Learnings from the book Quit

June 2

Learnings from the book Think Again

The importance of the prefetch count in RabbiMQ consumers

May 2

Learnings from the book The Staff Engineer’s Path

RabbitMQ Quorum queues definition arguments

April 3

Learnings from the book The Earned Life

Learnings from the book RabbitMQ in Depth

Learnings from the book Extreme Ownership

March 2

Learnings from the book Being Mortal

Learnings from the book Mastering Distributed Tracing

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