Articles

• Sourcing 360 Degree Feedback Nov 19, 2021 - management - 7 min read
• Why did you move to management? Aug 22, 2021 - management - 4 min read
• The three pillars of the Arduino CLI Jul 6, 2020 - golang arduino - 5 min read
• How to deal with API clients, the lazy way - from code generation to release management Mar 5, 2020 - golang python openapi - 6 min read
• Arduino on GitHub Actions Nov 14, 2019 - github actions arduino - 4 min read

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Talks

• Project Layout Patterns in Go Oct 22, 2018
• A Python and a Gopher Walk into a Bar - Embedding Python in Go Jan 24, 2017
• Python - Go One Way Dec 4, 2015
• How we stopped using the mouse and started drawing molecules with our fingertips Oct 6, 2015
• Django 1.7 on App Engine: it could work! May 27, 2015

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Active projects

• Intro to Kubernetes A 2-hours workshop to go from zero to Kubernetes
• actions/datadog Send Datadog metrics and events from GitHub workflows
• drone-datadog A drone.io plugin to send events and metrics to Datadog
• Threadle Ingest metrics from a Datadog Agent and send them to a custom storage using different plugins
• actions/elastic-logs Fetch logs from GitHub workflows and ingest them to Elasticsearch

Book reviews and notes

• ★★★★☆ The Art of Leadership by M. Lopp Feb 18, 2022 Very much like “The Manager’s Path”, this is another book you should keep on your desk and access randomly as you need it. Most of the “small things” target upper management but I recommend this book to line managers and individual contributors too as this is a good reference for what you should expect from your manager. Read book notes.

• ★★★☆☆ Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim Feb 3, 2022 The book consists of two, very different parts, plus a case study from the ING bank. Part one is a must read explanation of how DevOps practices can massively impact the business in a positive way and why. The second part is an explanation of the science that supports the claims presented in Part two. Read book notes.

• ★★★☆☆ Resilient Management by Lara Hogan Oct 30, 2021 I liked the fact that the book is short, goes straight to the point, contains mostly practical advices and methods to manage an engineering team (the target audience in my opinion is line managers). Similarly to “The Manager’s Path” by Camille Fournier, you can keep this book on your desk and use it whenever you need it, like a manual. Read book notes.

• ★★★★☆ Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet Aug 17, 2021 I was skeptical at first because leadership and management style in the military are not really my cup of tea, but this is different: the author seems to have the same feelings, except he was a submarine commander in the US Navy. Read book notes.

• ★★★★☆ Peopleware by T. De Marco and T. Lister (3rd ed.) Dec 1, 2019 I believe this is the mother of all the management books I’ve read so far: I can trace back most of the concepts that nowadays are common in engineering management to a paragraph, or a simple quote from this book. Read book notes.

• ★★★★☆ Team Geek by Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman Jul 11, 2013 The authors keep saying a sort of mantra during the book: HRT, an acronym that stands for Humility, Respect and Trust. Apply this mantra and you will soon become an excellent team player, whatever your job is. Read book notes.

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