Welcome to the AI Native era

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Do you know what AI Native is? How to work with it? And more importantly, how to profit from it?

That’s why today I’m very happy to announce 2 newsletters that address the AI Native model and will help you to sort out those questions and more.

I cut my teeth at a SaaS startup by leading its transformation to Cloud Native, and I’m now steering its next big leap into AI Native; exactly the challenge this newsletter exists to solve.

Am I an AI Native expert?

Of course not (yet).

Am I going to learn everything I can and tell you so you can repeat it?

Of course, yes.

Every 2 weeks, I’ll walk you through:

  1. Architecture Patterns: Concrete blueprints—architectural transformations leading to AI Native, event‑driven pipelines for real‑time inference, and data mesh strategies that keep your models fresh.
  2. Real‑World Solutions: Practical, battle‑tested implementations you can plug directly into your stack, from end‑to‑end model pipelines to scalable inference frameworks.
  3. Case Studies: Stories from SaaS teams who’ve refactored monoliths into model‑driven ecosystems, complete with their triumphs, setbacks, and the metrics that mattered.

Whether you’re the software engineer sailing how to work with AI, the architect sketching your next ER diagram, or the CTO charting the roadmap, these newsletters are your weekly compass.

Ready to turn cloud‑only promises into AI‑driven realities?

This is the version of the newsletter in English 👇

AN Native Newsletter

AI Native Newsletter

And this is the AI Native Newsletter in Spanish 👇

AI Native en Español

Subscribe now, based on your preferred language, and start to understand how to work with AI in the world of Software Development.

How I failed publishing a Newsletter in LinkedIn

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This is not a success story, but a failure story. Because of that, I would like to say I got great learnings from my failure… but I’m not sure if I really learned something. You tell me at the end of this article.

I’ve been publishing a newsletter on LinkedIn for 3 months, and I failed to achieve my goal.

In this article, I explain what I wanted to achieve and what I did. Also, I give you my vision about why I failed, and some tips for you to take away.

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Talk: Kubernetes for sofware development

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In January 2025 I had the great opportunity to talk in my hometown, Oviedo (Spain). The team from Asturias Software Crafters[1] and I met at a conference in the AWS Community Days 2024 Spain[2]. From there, I proposed this talk and they found it useful for their community.

Before continuing, I want to share with you that I have a newsletter where I share real-life lessons for thriving in Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, and Technical Growth. If this is something you are interested in, subscribe now for free and receive an email every week with that content for you to learn about those topics 👇🏻

Continuing with the talk, I wanted to explain how Kubernetes can help software engineers to have a better architecture. And that’s what I explained!

🧡 A perfect atmosphere for an event that I loved.

☸️ At the end of the event, we raffled off a handmade epoxy resin clock with the Kubernetes logo, and people loved it! If you want to see more work from the person who offered the gift for the raffle, I’ll leave the link in the comments.

🙏🏼☺️ I’d like to thank everyone who came by, I loved your participation and all the questions there were, the organization of Asturias Software Crafters (perfect guys), Oviedo Emprende for giving up the space, and a special hug to Ángel Suárez Fernández, PhD for his help doing the live online.

🐙🐵 At the end of this post I’ll leave you the links to the presentation and the GitHub repository of the 2 demos.

You can find the recording in this Youtube Video 👇🏻 Hope you like it! Any feedback is welcome!

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How I Increased My Subscribers on Substack: Lessons Learned

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In May 2023 I started a new project: The Optimist Engineer. Almost a year already passed but, even though today is not an anniversary or something, I’ve recently achieved an important milestone: Overpass 100 subscribers. But something curious happened and it’s the fact that, since then, the number of subscribers has continued growing and growing in a consistent way daily. In today’s post, I want to share with you how I managed to do so.

Engage!

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Talk in DevOpsDays Madrid 2023

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On Friday, 6th October 2023, it was my pleasure to drive a talk at the conference DevOps Days Madrid 2023. I had the beautiful opportunity to talk about the Lessons Learned Hiring As A Teamwork with Inma Jiménez García and I want to share with you my impressions about the event.

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Talk in Codemotion Madrid 2023

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AI Text-To-Speech – Using Play.th API

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ChatGPT and AI are terms that nowadays are all over the place. Wherever you read or watch the news, AI is around. Even though AI is a concept that is much older than ChatGPT, I clearly see an improvement, not only in the text generation with the latest ChatGPT 4 but also in the image generation with Midjourney. Voice generation is not an exception. However, how does it work nowadays at the time to integrate this new technology into our apps and services?

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Today, we can find several products that offer an AI-based Text-To-Speech API, and in the current article, I will create a proof of concept Java application to use the API offered by the startup Play.th. Engage!

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Newsletter incoming! The Optimist Engineer

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I’m thrilled to announce a new project on which I’m working for a while: The Optimist Engineer Newsletter

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This is about sharing experiences, learnings, and growth from the tech industry. People from Software Engineering, Tech Lead, and Engineering Management roles, from Startups and medium-sized companies, could find this initiative interesting for their development and growth. Hoping my journey could help yours.

Subscribe to the Optimist engineer!

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What can you expect? All things experiences, learnings, and growth about:

  • Technical Leadership
  • Software Engineering teams
  • Acceleration and Growth of tech companies

Publishing schedule

I plan to release a new issue twice per month, with a ~15 days separation between issues.

Special breaks

  • August. In August, you should not expect any issues delivered
  • End of December. During the last 15 days of December, you should not expect any issues delivered

Cloud Native Asturias Podcast

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GraphQL with Micronaut

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GraphQL is an open-source query language that is getting a lot of popularity in the last years and brings some new ways to access information. Because of that, GraphQL is gaining traction among developers due to its flexibility to query and retrieve data. Together with the Micronaut Framework, Software Engineers can deliver value fast and in a decoupled way.

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In this article, we will see the incipient power of GraphQL by creating a simple Micronaut-based GraphQL server from the scratch. Engage!

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