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Alejandro Pena
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Chapter Lead Backend @sngular.bsky.social
Backend ✦ DevOps ✦ Cloud ✦ QE ✦ Anything related to Software Development
📚 I write in ES/EN

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Think of your Quarkus app as a nightclub.
Saturday night hits, the line’s around the block — who gets in?

This new hands-on tutorial shows how Quarkus Load Shedding keeps your APIs fast and reliable under pressure.
Read on ↓
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#JavaDevelopers #Quarkus #PerformanceEngineering
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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The question isn’t if there will be an AI bubble burst, but when - and how big.

Every wave of significant new tech - no matter how “good” - has followed the same pattern, in part because of inflated expectations and a long lag before adoption delivers real impact (see Solow Paradox).

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September 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Una (no diré breve) reflexión sobre el uso de LLMs y el desarrollo de software: el impacto del concepto "Vibe Coding" y estrategias para una adopción responsable.

www.sngular.com/es/insights/...
LLMs, Vibe Coding y el desarrollo de software
El auge de los LLMs está redefiniendo industrias enteras, y el desarrollo de software no es una excepción.
www.sngular.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Una (no diré breve) reflexión sobre el uso de LLMs y el desarrollo de software: el impacto del concepto "Vibe Coding" y estrategias para una adopción responsable.

www.sngular.com/es/insights/...
LLMs, Vibe Coding y el desarrollo de software
El auge de los LLMs está redefiniendo industrias enteras, y el desarrollo de software no es una excepción.
www.sngular.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Muchas de las cosas consideradas como “obsesión” o “frikismo” por la gente que se considera normal, es en realidad motivación intrínseca pura. Ese tipo de motivación, bien dirigida, mueve montañas.
May 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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#SpringAI supports dynamic tool updates via #MCP! Add, remove & modify tools at runtime without restarting your app or server. Build adaptive AI systems that evolve with your needs.
📘 Blog: spring.io/blog/2025/05...
💻 Code: github.com/spring-proje...
May 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Since API governance is a service, I thought of using an appropriate documentation method, instead of "reinventing the wheel."

open.substack.com/pub/apichang...
Documenting API Governance
How do you document the processes behind API governance?
open.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Me ha gustado este artículo sobre aspectos que se tienen que mejorar si o si en los MCP. Algunos de estos aspectos suponen oportunidades de negocio bastante interesantes.

blog.sshh.io/p/everything...
Everything Wrong with MCP
Explaining the Model Context Protocol and everything that might go wrong.
blog.sshh.io
April 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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With release 1.11b we completely removed the web panel feature. You can find a statement on that in the release notes here zen-browser.app/release-note...

Also, we've added this nice button in the Glance menu!

#ZenBrowser
April 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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This is ALL hexagonal architecture is about.
The same that was proposed a decade before.
No hexagon, no architecture.

I've often listened to someone blaming old, useless UML but at the same time enhancing how you should use hexagonal architecture.
Please don't follow stuff with horse blinders!
April 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties

Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.

Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
April 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The most useful code isn’t the code that solves every future problem.

It’s the code that’s easy to change.

You don’t need perfect foresight.
You need feedback from real users—and a codebase that can adapt.

Good systems evolve. Give them room to move.
March 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI Updates, WildFly 36 Beta, Infinispan, JNoSQL

This week's Java roundup for March 24th, 2025 features news highlighting: updates for Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI; the first beta release of WildFly 36.0; the third alpha release of Hibernate Sea…

#ai #news
Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI Updates, WildFly 36 Beta, Infinispan, JNoSQL
This week's Java roundup for March 24th, 2025 features news highlighting: updates for Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI; the first beta release of WildFly 36.0; the third alpha release of Hibernate Search 8.0; the March 2023 release of Open Liberty; and point releases for Quarkus, Infinispan, JHipster and OpenXava. By Michael Redlich
www.infoq.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Missed #JavaOne last week? You can watch the Community Keynote on the #Java YouTube channel.👇 Thanks to @sharatchander.bsky.social @billykorando.bsky.social @delabassee.bsky.social @ammbra1508.bsky.social @nipafx.dev @monoquito89.bsky.social et al for a great show!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwR7...
Java Turns 30 - Live from JavaOne 2025
YouTube video by Java
www.youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is extremely sad and a huge disaster for the entire Japanese cultural industry. And the fact that it started specifically with Studio Ghibli makes it even harder.
Was wondering why OpenAI chose to showcase images in the style of Japanse art studio Studio Ghibli - but not, Disney characters, Marvel comics etc.

I suspect b/c Japan is the only major country that made training on copyrighted works legal.

Expect no other country to follow after this…
March 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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AWS has 131,000 employees and not a single technical writer among them
March 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Too many people accept opinion as fact, or deem anyone capable of stringing together a complete sentence to be intelligent, which is why LLMs seem like a suitable replacement for the people around them.
March 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Building software should be sustainable. Quality and feeling good at the end of the day matter more than constant pressure and accumulating technical debt.
March 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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✨ Inspirar significa iluminar el espíritu o insinuar algo en el corazón de las personas.

A lo largo de la historia son muchas las #mujeres que han inspirado a otras, rompiendo barreras, abriendo nuevos caminos a un mundo más diverso.

#8M #sngularwomen💜

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAGt...
8M 💜 Mujeres que inspiran 🍃
YouTube video by SNGULAR
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March 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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An article worth reading, for those in leadership positions - The 10 Biggest Leadership Blindspots Based on 10 Years of Research newsletter.canopy.is/p/the-10-big...
The 10 Biggest Leadership Blindspots Based on 10 Years of Research
How to identify these blindspots for yourself, and most importantly, how to avoid them
newsletter.canopy.is
March 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Smells like contract testing spirit
March 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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You first.
February 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.
January 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE
We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM