On November 3rd, I announced I had joined Hookdeck to lead Outpost. It looked like the perfect setup on paper: a founder-like role, a smart team, and a problem space (EDA) that I’ve spent the last 12 years mastering. On November 24th, exactly three weeks later, I resigned. I’ve spent the last month processing this. I’m sharing the story not because I like talking about my mistakes, but because I bet a lot of you are stuck in the exact same trap I fell into. I spent over a decade in the...
about 11 hours ago • 3 min read
I’m writing this to share some personal news that I’m incredibly excited about. I’ve officially joined Hookdeck as VP & General Manager of a new product called Outpost. This isn’t a decision I took lightly. My time since leaving Postman has been invaluable, allowing me to focus on building my own ventures. But when Alex at Hookdeck showed me what they were building, I saw a rare opportunity. A chance to solve a fundamental, unglamorous problem that plagues our industry and aligns perfectly...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
I’m deep in the writing process for my new book, Shift: The Playbook for Event-Driven Architecture Advocacy. An important part of the book is psychological safety. Why? Because I’ve seen it time and again: most big tech transformations don’t fail on the tech, they fail on the people. To make this point crystal clear, I needed a powerful, real-world story. So I hit up my friend, Fran Arismendi. Fran’s a world-class Chilean psychologist who, in a cool turn of events, is now my neighbor here in...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Seventeen months ago, I was completely burned out. I felt drained, disconnected, and like I was running on a treadmill I couldn’t get off. Many of you in tech know the feeling. The constant pressure, the endless to-do lists, the feeling that you’re never doing enough. Today, things are completely different. I’ve found a sense of balance and happiness that I didn’t think was possible back then. It wasn’t about finding a new productivity hack or a better time management system. It was about a...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader, For a while now, I’ve been thinking about the way we connect here. I write, you read. Sometimes, you hit reply, and I get to read your incredible thoughts and stories. I genuinely love it. But it’s always felt a bit… disconnected. Like a one-way street with a few wonderful letters passed back. I find myself wishing for more. I wish this was a real conversation, a place where this stops being a monologue and becomes a true dialogue. A space where you can connect with me, and just...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Summer in the mountains gave me a lot of time to think about what I’m doing and what I want to do next. For the last seven years, many of you have known me as “the AsyncAPI guy.” And that’s cool, but the reality is that AsyncAPI was just one of my many projects. It just happened to be the one that really took off. At my core, I’m a builder. A hacker. I love software architecture, but it’s just one of the many things that get me excited. I love the whole process of building...
4 months ago • 2 min read
I've spent the last few weeks on over 20 calls with all kinds of companies. From tiny startups to huge enterprises. Every single one of them is wrestling with Event-Driven Architecture, trying to make sense of its promise and its messy reality. And as I listened, patterns started jumping out at me. We're not just talking about tech problems here. We're hitting the deep, human stuff that comes with a big shift like this. One story kept popping up, louder than all the others: culture. Forget...
6 months ago • 3 min read
Writing Shift is proving to be challenging to me. Not in a bad way but in a really really good way. Yesterday, in a conversation with Laïla Bougriâ, I told her that I'm writing the book for me, to learn. Obviously, I'm taking into account the target audience all the time but, even this, is part of the challenge. It's not the first time I've done this though. When I drafted the first AsyncAPI specification, I did it for me, so I could learn the ins and outs of OpenAPI and also Event-Driven...
7 months ago • 2 min read
This week, I had an interesting discussion with a client. It's a Civil Engineering corporation that's present in multiple continents. The "company culture" challenge becomes especially important when different cultures all around the globe are mixed toward a same goal. Building a globally-distributed Event-Driven Architecture is no exception. Everywhere I look, people are trying to fix culture problems with tools. Not because they're dumb or stupid, actually, I'd have committed the same...
7 months ago • 2 min read