Why Async Agentic AI Does Not Mean Free Productivity
Agentic AI can speed up execution, but expected delivery gains are often overstated because humans still pay the cost of review and context switching.
Software Engineering
Is Agentic AI Like a Drug?
Agentic AI made me more productive at work, but I am ending every day more mentally tired. A personal reflection on reinforcement loops, dopamine, and sustainability.
Learnings from the book Unit Testing
These are my learnings from the book Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns
Fixing Tracing Propagation in Spring WebFlux: A One-Line Solution
Upgrading to Spring Boot 3.2 revealed tracing issues in a WebFlux service. A single line of code fixed broken span propagation and improved debugging.
How upgrading from Spring Boot 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 broke our object mapper
After upgrading Spring Boot from version 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 we started to have a serialization issue with the Optional class. Check how to fix it in this post
Learnings from the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications
These are my learnings from the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Root causes are usually simpler than they appear
We are smart engineers and sometimes when we face a problem we may tend to think the root cause is very complex, but usually, they are simpler than they appear
Learnings from the book Pro Spring 6
These are my learnings from the book Pro Spring 6: An In-Depth Guide to the Spring Framework
My Software Engineering Philosophy: Principles that guide my work-life
This document is a set of principles that are part of my software engineering philosophy
Learnings from the book Foundations of Scalable Systems
These are my learnings from the book Foundations of Scalable Systems: Designing Distributed Architectures written by Ian Gorton