https://pressanykey.tech/en/blog/Thoughts, opinions, and technical articles on software engineering, cloud, AI, teamwork and anything that crosses my mind.en-US© 2026 Lino FigueroaWed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/agile-theater-stand-ups-post-its-and-zero-decisions/articulo/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/agile-theater-stand-ups-post-its-and-zero-decisions/articulo/ArticleHow so many companies adopt the Agile look without changing anything that matters, turning their ceremonies into corporate theater.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/homelab-cluster-my-own-personal-cloud/articulo/Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/homelab-cluster-my-own-personal-cloud/articulo/ArticleHow 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.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/multi-project-hell-on-three-teams-at-once-and-truly-on-none/articulo/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/multi-project-hell-on-three-teams-at-once-and-truly-on-none/articulo/ArticleWhy 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.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/meetings-that-should-have-been-a-pull-request/articulo/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/meetings-that-should-have-been-a-pull-request/articulo/ArticleWhy 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.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/feature-flags-canary-releases-art-of-not-breaking-production/articulo/Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/feature-flags-canary-releases-art-of-not-breaking-production/articulo/ArticleHow to use feature flags and canary releases to deploy safely, reduce incident risk, and keep your velocity without sacrificing your weekend.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-false-consensus-when-nobody-dares-say-the-idea-is-bad/articulo/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-false-consensus-when-nobody-dares-say-the-idea-is-bad/articulo/ArticleWhy teams nod along when they should push back, how silence turns into a collective decision, and what it takes to break that pattern.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-cult-of-urgency-when-everything-was-needed-yesterday-and-tomorrow-will-be-worse/articulo/Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-cult-of-urgency-when-everything-was-needed-yesterday-and-tomorrow-will-be-worse/articulo/ArticleFalse urgency has become the default operating mode in tech companies, with a real cost in productivity and mental health.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/senior-the-title-you-earn-by-surviving-not-by-standing-out/articulo/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/senior-the-title-you-earn-by-surviving-not-by-standing-out/articulo/ArticleThe 'senior' title in the tech industry is handed out far too often for tenure and chaos tolerance, not for real technical judgment.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/security-by-design-stop-patching-holes-you-dug-yourself/articulo/Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/security-by-design-stop-patching-holes-you-dug-yourself/articulo/ArticleWhy security must be integrated from the design phase instead of bolted on at the end: threat modeling, OWASP, 12-Factor Apps, CVEs, and pentesting.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/full-stack-developer-cult-lots-of-stack-not-much-depth/articulo/Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/full-stack-developer-cult-lots-of-stack-not-much-depth/articulo/ArticleWhy the all-powerful full-stack myth benefits companies and coding schools, and what it costs developers in quality, career growth, and mental health.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/ai-bubble-not-the-end-of-the-world/articulo/Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/ai-bubble-not-the-end-of-the-world/articulo/ArticleGenerative AI has the hallmarks of an economic bubble and a real underlying technology: how to navigate the hype without falling for the apocalypse or the infomercial.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/combat-manual-for-shipping-changes-without-breaking-everything/articulo/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/combat-manual-for-shipping-changes-without-breaking-everything/articulo/ArticleA practical guide to deploying changes to production without drama: feature flags, canary releases, the strangler pattern, and pipelines that stop bad code before it ships.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-committee-where-good-ideas-go-to-die-slowly/articulo/Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-committee-where-good-ideas-go-to-die-slowly/articulo/ArticleWhy committee-based decisions tend to be inefficient, and what organizational research says about designing better collective decision-making processes.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-price-of-being-right/articulo/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-price-of-being-right/articulo/ArticleWhy technical discussions turn into identity battles — and how to survive without losing your craft or your sanity.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-cloud-isnt-cheap-anymore-welcome-to-the-finops-era/articulo/Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-cloud-isnt-cheap-anymore-welcome-to-the-finops-era/articulo/ArticleThe promise that the cloud cuts costs has expired: now it's FinOps, the practice that turns your cloud bill into just another system metric.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/serverless-containers-and-vms-pick-your-poison-and-your-bill/articulo/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/serverless-containers-and-vms-pick-your-poison-and-your-bill/articulo/ArticleVMs, containers, and serverless compared without dogma: control, costs, lock-in, and when to pick each deployment model.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/toxic-metrics-story-points-commits-and-other-ways-to-fool-yourself/articulo/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/toxic-metrics-story-points-commits-and-other-ways-to-fool-yourself/articulo/ArticleWhy measuring productivity with story points, commits, or lines of code destroys teams, and what metrics actually make sense.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/rewriting-from-scratch-hold-my-beer/articulo/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/rewriting-from-scratch-hold-my-beer/articulo/ArticleThe urge to throw out the code and rewrite from scratch almost always costs more than you think: why we underestimate the real price and when it actually makes sense.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/infrastructure-as-code/articulo/Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/infrastructure-as-code/articulo/ArticleYour infrastructure is already software: it has state, bugs, and side effects. IaC is how you version it — and when you screw up, at least leave a trail.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/ai-everywhere-the-ketchup-on-everything-syndrome/articulo/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/ai-everywhere-the-ketchup-on-everything-syndrome/articulo/ArticleAI-washing and AI slop are eroding trust in real AI: how to spot the smoke and what to do instead.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/how-to-make-technical-decisions-without-selling-your-soul-to-the-hype/articulo/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/how-to-make-technical-decisions-without-selling-your-soul-to-the-hype/articulo/ArticleThere are technical decisions, and then there are hype-driven ones. Learn to spot the difference before your team spends the next two years fighting fires in your shiny new architecture.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/microservices-monoliths-mythical-creatures/articulo/Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/microservices-monoliths-mythical-creatures/articulo/ArticleMonolith or microservices? A calm, noise-free look at both options, real case studies from Netflix, Amazon and Uber, the myths that deserve retirement, and a framework you can actually use to decide.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/subscription-model-sucks/articulo/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/subscription-model-sucks/articulo/ArticleWe keep paying anyway, because they've got us right where they want us. On subscription fatigue, BWM's heated seat fiasco, enshittification, and what you can actually do about it.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/modern-architecture-fundamentals-no-snake-oil-included/articulo/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/modern-architecture-fundamentals-no-snake-oil-included/articulo/ArticleWhat 'modern architecture' actually means beyond the buzzwords: monoliths, modular monoliths, microservices, events, and cloud-native design — with a survival guide to help you decide.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/psychological-cost-always-up-to-date/articulo/Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/psychological-cost-always-up-to-date/articulo/ArticleIf you measure your worth against an aggregate of other people's highlights, you always lose. On tech FOMO, training burnout, and why falling a bit behind on purpose is a good idea.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/professional-hygiene-guide-developers/articulo/Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/professional-hygiene-guide-developers/articulo/ArticleIt's not about productivity or 'wake up at 5 AM.' It's about how not to burn yourself out along a 25-30 year career.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/slos-slas-slis/articulo/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/slos-slas-slis/articulo/ArticleSLI, SLO, and SLA are the grown-up version of 'it more or less works'. Go from 'I think it's fine' to 'this is what it handles and what's at stake'.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/metrics-observability-strategy/articulo/Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/metrics-observability-strategy/articulo/ArticleThe difference between a healthy team and one stuck in endless theater usually comes down to how they use metrics.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/is-this-idea-worth-tech-article/articulo/Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/is-this-idea-worth-tech-article/articulo/ArticleHow to decide if an idea deserves an article (and your time), or if you're better off closing the tab and getting back to your coffee.https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/from-move-fast-to-ship-crap/articulo/Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/from-move-fast-to-ship-crap/articulo/ArticleHow bad metrics (OKRs, velocity, features per quarter) are pushing a lot of products over the edge.