João Alves
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2x Dad. Husband. Head of Engineering @Adevinta. Building abistama.com and rotahog.com
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João Alves
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João Alves
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· Aug 26
You can just open-source things
At Adevinta, Alex Moleiro initiated a project a few years ago in his Platform teams: instead of asking people, "Can you just create me a ticket?" when they had a problem and passed by a Slack channel, he started automating that creation. In that way, there was a win-win situation: 1. People got support right where they were. No copy-an...
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João Alves
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· Aug 26
João Alves
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· Jul 30
João Alves
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· Jul 1
João Alves
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· May 31
Annoying popup "Untrusted Server's Certificate" (network traffic is being intercepted/man-in-the-middled by Allot) : IDEA-373625
Investigation results: Our plugin marketplace "https://downloads.marketplace.jetbrains.com" has a valid SSL certificate, and using some SSL test websites like https://www.ssl.org/ can see the website's SSL certificate is valid. As far as we know, this issues affects Spain users only (we received reports from Span users using "Movistar", "Euskaltel" and "Pepephone" network providers). [Allot](https://www.allot.com/) produces security software, and it seems these network providers use the software made by Allot intercept/[MITM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack) network requests to do something with their own custom SSL certificates, so the IDE shows invalid certificates for these requests. Suggestions: 1. A user using "Movistar" network provider told us they can disable a Cyber Security option under https://conexionsegura.movistar.es/ to disable it. If you are using "Movistar" network provider, check this site to see if it helps. 2. Someone reports this issue was fi
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João Alves
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· May 31
João Alves
@joaoqalves.net
· May 22
Honest SaaS
On the build vs buy dilemma that software engineering leaders often discuss, I tend to stick with Peter Drucker's philosophy: “Do what you do best and outsource the rest” Twenty years ago, big tech had to invent everything from scratch, but today, some developer tools and infrastructure exist as open source or as a service. You work on...
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João Alves
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· May 22