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joaoqalves

joined 4/27/2015, 7:47:20 PM has 119 karma

I'm João, Head of Engineering, at Adevinta. I also create digital products like rotahog.com

I write about software and engineering management here:

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Recent Posts

Five opinions I've kept, let go, and picked up as a software builder and leader
by joaoqalveson 5/30/2025, 7:30:32 PM with 2 comments
Private Equity 101 for the tech industry
by joaoqalveson 5/16/2025, 4:03:32 PM with 2 comments
Show HN: RotaHog rotas for teams. No more spreadsheet hell
by joaoqalveson 4/24/2025, 7:13:42 AM with 2 comments
In Praise of Pull Requests
by joaoqalveson 10/1/2023, 9:15:07 AM with 0 comments
Unpacking the Complexities of Kubernetes Upgrades: Beyond the One-Click Update
by joaoqalveson 9/28/2023, 8:26:33 AM with 1 comment
Generating 90M USD in revenue for Soho House through a fake Hinge profile
by joaoqalveson 8/12/2023, 5:20:44 AM with 2 comments
It’s not always DNS – unless it is
by joaoqalveson 6/13/2023, 11:05:03 AM with 0 comments
Show HN: Noe, a mutating webhook to make multi-arch simpler in Kubernetes
by joaoqalveson 6/6/2023, 3:11:39 PM with 0 comments
Opinionated Tools Are Better
by joaoqalveson 1/30/2023, 8:24:48 PM with 0 comments
Is this Hacker News material? How to write and distribute great content
by joaoqalveson 1/19/2023, 4:58:47 PM with 1 comment
Show HN: Maiao, Stacked Diffs for GitHub
by joaoqalveson 10/8/2022, 12:25:59 PM with 8 comments
Smaller blast radius with Highly Available Kubernetes clusters
by joaoqalveson 7/7/2022, 1:41:41 PM with 0 comments
Hiring, Interviews and Corporatism in Tech
by joaoqalveson 5/23/2021, 9:15:19 AM with 0 comments
Data-driven, optimization and local maxima
by joaoqalveson 5/9/2021, 8:45:20 AM with 0 comments
Why does Uber need 100s of mobile devs?
by joaoqalveson 5/2/2021, 8:53:12 AM with 0 comments
The Next Ten Years
by joaoqalveson 4/25/2021, 1:53:16 PM with 1 comment
Internal Platforms. Isn't Kubernetes Enough?
by joaoqalveson 4/19/2021, 1:32:42 PM with 0 comments
On Hiring QA Engineers
by joaoqalveson 4/11/2021, 10:28:55 AM with 0 comments
Disasters I've seen in a microservices world
by joaoqalveson 4/2/2021, 3:36:04 PM with 0 comments
Dear CTO, remote will change your company forever
by joaoqalveson 3/19/2021, 2:25:08 PM with 0 comments
No one will negotiate for you
by joaoqalveson 3/10/2021, 7:00:38 PM with 0 comments