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The Majestic Monolith Demystified.

How to Shape a Monolithic App to Move Fast Today Without Paying the Price in the Future.

Roberto Rodes
December 30, 2021 Leave a Comment
12 min read

The Monolith.

If you are a creator giving birth to a new web application, you may be racking your brain trying to uncover the right way to do it. In a …

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Thinking in Bets.

Roberto Rodes
October 15, 2021 Leave a Comment
1 min read

We are often fooled by randomness. Luck plays too big of a role. So how can we make better decisions? Based on Annie Duke's book, …

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Vaccine Mandates Are a Systemic Risk.

Roberto Rodes
October 14, 2021 Leave a Comment
1 min read

Vaccine or no vaccine? We're being forced into believing, almost as a religious act, there is no dilemma at all about it. Vaccines are …

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Shortcuts Do Not Work.

Roberto Rodes
October 13, 2021 Leave a Comment
2 min read

If you're learning a new discipline and trying to grow on top of it, there is something that barely ever works: taking shortcuts. You can …

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Small Tools for Shaping.

Roberto Rodes
October 12, 2021 Leave a Comment
1 min read

Design work is messy work. There is no clear route. It's more like a maze with many dead ends. And as a result, it's easy to get stuck, …

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Don’t Let Your Results Fool You.

Roberto Rodes
October 11, 2021 Leave a Comment
3 min read

We tend to judge our decisions based on the results we get. But is that the right thing to do? When we start learning to code, it’s usual …

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Core Principles for Trading.

Roberto Rodes
October 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
10 min read

Throughout the past year diving into the world of trading, there is a problem I've been recurrently experiencing: derailing from the …

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Escaping the Microservices Wormhole.

Why a distributed app can quietly break your business when you're starting up.

Roberto Rodes
September 9, 2021 Leave a Comment
9 min read

It’s over. Another day went by, and you aren’t able to make a final choice. You’ve been thinking hard about your new app’s architecture, …

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There Is No Last Word.

You don't need as much to start sharing your work.

Roberto Rodes
August 2, 2021 Leave a Comment
3 min read

Working in public has been burdening me for a long time. If you're like the old me, you're always trying to craft a masterpiece before …

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