LATEST// THE CRAFT · 12 Aug 2026
Agile theater: stand-ups, post-its, and zero decisions
How so many companies adopt the Agile look without changing anything that matters, turning their ceremonies into corporate theater.
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Articles to look things up, a podcast to understand and videos to see it working. Architecture, cloud, DevOps and systems with evidence, context and the reality check you didn't know you needed.
LATEST// 01 · By topic
All series →Latest releases.
How I Built My Own Personal Cloud
How I built a six-node cluster running local AI at home: the design decisions, the incidents that put it to the test, and why it was worth it.
22 min
Multi-Project Hell: On Three Teams at Once and Truly on None
Why being spread across four or five projects at once doesn't make you more efficient — it just leaves you shallow on all of them, according to the science of context switching.
13 min
Meetings That Should Have Been a Pull Request
Why so many technical decisions that could fit in three paragraphs of a PR end up becoming an hour-long video call with ten people and a Head of Something.
11 min
Feature flags, canary releases, and the art of not breaking production (too badly)
How to use feature flags and canary releases to deploy safely, reduce incident risk, and keep your velocity without sacrificing your weekend.
12 min
The False Consensus: When Nobody Dares Say the Idea Is Bad
Why teams nod along when they should push back, how silence turns into a collective decision, and what it takes to break that pattern.
13 min
The cult of urgency: when everything was needed yesterday and tomorrow will be worse
False urgency has become the default operating mode in tech companies, with a real cost in productivity and mental health.
16 min
// 02 · By medium
By format.
If you already know how you want it: the latest in each format.
Articles
- 12 minAgile theater: stand-ups, post-its, and zero decisions
- 22 minHow I Built My Own Personal Cloud
- 13 minMulti-Project Hell: On Three Teams at Once and Truly on None
Tutorials
- Intermediate · 23 minTerraform for Humans: From Reckless Click-Ops to IaC (Without Losing Your Mind Along the Way)
- Intermediate · 22 minuv without fear: designing your Python platform layer
- Beginner · 10 minInstalling Python "properly" with pyenv (and stop fighting with versions)
// 03 · Seven areas
Areas.
Architecture
Boxes, arrows, and living with the consequences
5 POSTSCloud & infrastructure
The bill is architecture too
1 TOPICS · 4 POSTSDevelopment
Environments and tools that don't get in the way
2 TOPICS · 5 POSTSDevOps & reliability
Deploying without praying
4 POSTSData & AI
Beyond the demo that always works
2 POSTSSystems
Bare metal, Linux, and friends
1 TOPICS · 3 POSTSThe craft
The human side of software, the universe and everything
15 POSTSDigital society
When technology decides for you and you just hit Accept
0 POSTS Explore all topics →
// Who writes
I'm Lino Figueroa.
Software architect. I've spent years designing systems, breaking them and explaining why. Here I show you how this world really works from the inside: the good, the bad and the ugly.
// Manifesto
- 01I test before I recommend.
- 02I disclose sponsors and affiliates: zero, just like my bank account.
- 03I correct in public when I'm wrong.
- 04I separate facts, experience and opinion.