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2024²⁴

August²

Navigating a Major Spring Boot Upgrade: Key Takeaways

August 27, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Backwards compatible migration for Spring Batch 5 params table

August 19, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

July⁴

90% of distributed traces observability gone after Spring Boot upgrade

July 17, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

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

July 15, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Goals and purposes for the next year

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

Learnings from the book The Comfort Crisis

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

June⁴

Migration from Netflix Zuul to Spring Cloud Gateway Server MVC

June 27, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

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

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

Learnings from the book A Guide to the Good Life

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

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

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

May³

Dubai Desert Safari: Is it worth it?

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

Learnings from the book The Good Enough Job

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

Learnings from the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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

April³

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

April 27, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Migrating Spring Sleuth to Micrometer Observability in Spring Boot 3

April 11, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Replacing deprecated @EnableResourceServer with Spring Security

April 1, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

March²

Hiking the Tunnel Bluffs from Lions Bay trail

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

Hiking BCMC Trail in Winter

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

February³

Learnings from the book Outlive

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

Learnings from the book An Immense World

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

Root causes are usually simpler than they appear

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

January³

Learnings from the book Clear Thinking

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

Relaxing in a cozy log cabin in Forest Grove - BC

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

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

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

2023³⁷

December⁷

Cancun all-inclusive Resort: We felt like kings

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

Learnings from the book The Five Invitations

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

Learnings from the book Same as Ever

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

Learnings from the book Pro Spring 6

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

RabbitMQ Tips: The importance of poisonous message handling for DLQs

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

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

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

We added cash to the portfolio and here is why

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

November³

Return to the office or not? Positive points of each

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

Learnings from the book Four Thousand Weeks

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

How Dependabot is helping us keep our dependencies up to date

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

October¹

Learnings from the book Atomic Habits

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

September²

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

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

Learnings from the book Never Split the Difference

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

August⁵

Learnings from the book Foundations of Scalable Systems

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

One year in 15 seconds: 4 Seasons Timelapse of Vancouver

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

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

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

Insights from Mentorship: Three Key Learnings

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

Learnings from the book Excellent Advice for Living

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

July³

Learnings from the book Song of Significance

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

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

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

Learnings from the book Quit

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

June²

Learnings from the book Think Again

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

The importance of the prefetch count in RabbiMQ consumers

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

May²

Learnings from the book The Staff Engineer’s Path

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

RabbitMQ Quorum queues definition arguments

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

April³

Learnings from the book The Earned Life

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

Learnings from the book RabbitMQ in Depth

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

Learnings from the book Extreme Ownership

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

March²

Learnings from the book Being Mortal

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

Learnings from the book Mastering Distributed Tracing

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

February³

Learnings from the book Why We Sleep

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

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

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

Learnings from the book How will you measure your life?

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

January⁴

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

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

Learnings from the book Distributed Tracing in Practice

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

Observability Basics

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

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

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

2022³⁴

December²

The ‘Learnings from books’ series

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

Why we decided to index all portfolio

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

November¹

Cache in a microservice environment: A short overview

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

October²

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

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

Our first Thanksgiving dinner in Canada

October 25, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Immigration

September³

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

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

How we manage money as a couple: Avoiding conflicts having clear rules

September 11, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

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

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

July¹

Leadership lessons from Ted Lasso TV show

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

June³

25 takeaways from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

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

New to Canada Guide: Guide for a more smooth experience

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

RabbitMQ High Availability: Tips to make your message broker better

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

May¹¹

Interview Preparation to help you get better Software Engineering jobs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CELPIP-G Speaking Tips

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

The 20 Most Important Things by Howard Marks

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

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

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

13 Attributes of a Perfect Company by Peter Lynch

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

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

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

April⁶

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

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

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

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

6 tips on how to invest according to Rule Breaker Investing

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

Pact Contract Testing flow on a CI pipeline

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

10 important investment advices from Warren Buffett

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

What is a Compounder Company? Our favorite type of company to invest

April 11, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Finance

February²

Using Pact for Consumer-Driven Contract Testing

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

Contract Testing: Helping your microservices keep communicating

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

January³

What is it that makes bad code smell so bad?

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

Clean Code

January 22, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

This blog stack

January 8, 2022 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Google Anaytics (functional)

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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

2023 37

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

February 3

Learnings from the book Why We Sleep

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

Learnings from the book How will you measure your life?

January 4

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