Observability Basics

Learn what is Observability and the basic signals that allows system to be observable

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

These are my learnings from the book Let’s talk about death (over dinner) by Michael Hebb

The 'Learnings from books' series

This Learning from Books series documents the things that I learned and liked about the books that I read

Why we decided to index all portfolio

We decided to stop stock picking and index all our portfolio and in this post, we talk about the reasons and which ETFs we choose

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

Cache in a microservice environment: A short overview

Caching frequently used information is a very good approach to speed up your microservice. In this post we show a brief overview about caching

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

Our main goal as the platform team is to help improve the developer experience and help the company to deliver more

Our first Thanksgiving dinner in Canada

We tried to make a very traditional thanksgiving dinner with Turkey, gravy, mashed potato, stuffing, cranberry source and a pumpkin pie

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

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

Until recently we had only individual stocks on the portfolio and recently added one ETF. Check out the main reasons why we added an ETF and which one we added

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

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

Discover how we manage money as a couple with a clear, step-by-step system that prioritizes communication, shared goals, and financial simplicity

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

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

We were seeing random queries taking as much a 35 seconds on our Postgres DB. The cause was GIN index feature that you have to get to know