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Pedro Tavares (ordep.dev)

ordep.dev

A blog about software engineering, papers, and technology by Pedro Tavares

Software / engineering practiceDistributed systems / cloudEngineering management / careersDatabases

’15’20’25
Posts
37 from 19 Nov 2014 to 4 Feb 2026
Posting
now and then (2 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
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2026 2

  1. Trust signals are broken
  2. Year in books

2025 13

  1. Trust is everything
  2. Surviving Long-Running Projects
  3. When more threads make things worse
  4. More People ≠ Faster Delivery
  5. On the Edge of Competence
  6. Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck
  7. Writing More Often
  8. Why I Want to Write (Again)
  9. Making Sense of a Noisy World
  10. One Bad Configuration, One Global Outage
  11. LLMs, Vibe-Coding, and Where I Draw the Line
  12. Joining online book clubs
  13. Reviving my online presence

2021 4

  1. My favorite papers
  2. Stop fighting
  3. Being on-call
  4. Standups

2019 3

  1. Tales from running Kafka Streams in Production
  2. Papers, Love, and Meetup
  3. Diving into Merkle Trees

2018 3

  1. Half a year of Papers We Love @ Porto
  2. What you should know about database storage and retrieval.
  3. Don't be fooled by 100% code coverage.

2017 6

  1. Test-Driven Developers: Building a testing culture.
  2. Microservices? You have to be this tall!
  3. Boost your confidence with Consumer-Driven Contracts
  4. Things I learned at Devoxx Poland 2017
  5. Custom collectors for better performance
  6. Handling multi-module releases

2016 4

  1. Order-of-growth classifications
  2. Size of an Object in Java
  3. Immutability and defensive copying
  4. Equality: a == b ?

2015 1

  1. A note on testing private methods

2014 1

  1. First publish to NPM