Allan Vital

In my previous post about AI and software development, some people understood my position as if I was denying the real improvements that AI brings to the table.

Quick post: For some reason, my post about leader election in spring boot remains one of the most accessed in this blog.

This post will be just a complaint with no real solution, but it’s worth keeping as a record of how we perceive our times.

If you spend any time around developer discussions lately, it’s impossible to avoid the topic of AI-assisted development.

I haven’t been following many YouTube channels lately, but one that always leaves me satisfied whenever I watch is Renato Augusto’s channel.

Just a quick post to show one of my latest projects, DNSao.

After a few years maintaining a blog in Jekyll (not this one, this one is in Hugo), I started wanting to migrate to WordPress on a VPS.

A while ago I had an acquaintance who joined the company where I worked as a backend developer.

A few weeks ago, a post went viral on LinkedIn: A company had the idea of firing an employee in a humane way, with a decorated basket of treats and words of appreciation.

The day before yesterday I received an email with a simple question: “What do I need to do to start and thrive in my web developer career?”

A few years ago I came across a text by Gabs Ferreira talking about the need for content production in Portuguese, not only in the IT area, but especially in it.

Sometimes I miss the adrenaline of decompiling a jar file (because the source was lost ages ago), adding a feature and putting it back in production.

After many years working in your system, building, tinkering, improving, breaking and reassembling, you decide that what is really needed is a full software rewrite.

Let’s get more technical.

There are hundreds of interview techniques, thousand of tools, each with a corresponding required knowledge to work with, countless “classic” algorithms and a myriad of different types of projects to try to evaluate a Software Developer.

There sure is a lot of talk and work about estimates in software development.

Edit 17/05/2025: I’ve built a Spring Boot Starter using JPA to enable a simple leader election process.

So, there’s this thing about your system.

In recent past, Orkut was the main social network in my area.

When I started my career I quite never understood the idea of settling down with some language/technology.

Welcome to my new blog!