A growing library of articles based on real engineering experience: cloud strategy, application modernization, microservices, DevOps, observability, AI in engineering, and how to lead delivery-focused teams. All articles are written by Timoteo Soutello, based on 17+ years working on production systems for global companies.
What makes engineering leadership actually work. Hiring, ownership, technical decision-making, feedback culture, and the practical habits behind teams that ship consistently without burning out.
Read articleA practical guide to cloud cost optimization that goes beyond rightsizing. How FinOps, architecture, and engineering culture combine to reduce cloud spend sustainably.
Read articleA pragmatic guide to modernizing legacy Java applications. JDK upgrades, Spring Boot migration, native image options with GraalVM, containerization, and the trade-offs that matter in production.
Read articleHow experienced engineering teams are using AI productively, without breaking quality. Concrete workflows, where AI is a force multiplier, and where it still hurts more than it helps.
Read articleA practical guide to observability in modern distributed systems. What logs, metrics, and traces are actually for, how to design SLOs, and what to skip to keep costs and noise under control.
Read articleA practical guide to event-driven architecture with Apache Kafka. Topic design, schema evolution, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, and the patterns that actually work in production.
Read articleBefore choosing rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, or retire, teams need a shared view of what matters most. A practical business value versus pain quadrant for 6R modernization.
Read articleKubernetes is a powerful platform, but it is the wrong answer for many modernization projects. A practical guide to when Kubernetes accelerates legacy modernization and when it slows you down.
Read articleHow to design CI/CD pipelines that scale with the team and the system. Trunk-based development, fast feedback, progressive delivery, and the practical patterns that keep delivery flow healthy.
Read articleAn honest comparison of AWS, Azure, and GCP for application modernization. How the choice affects architecture, cost, talent, and time to value, with practical guidance for picking the right cloud.
Read articleA pragmatic playbook for decomposing a monolith using bounded contexts, the strangler fig pattern, and incremental delivery, while keeping the business running.
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