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2026  21

October  4

Wild Orangutans on a 2-Day Jungle Trek in Bukit Lawang

Created: October 24, 2026 · 10 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Wildlife of Kenya and Tanzania Through My Lens

Created: October 22, 2026 · 21 min · Luiz Vieira · Hobbies

Wildlife of British Columbia Through My Lens

Modified: October 23, 2026 · Created: October 18, 2026 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Hobbies

Why AI Made Me Stop Writing (and Why I’m Starting Again)

Modified: October 23, 2026 · Created: October 15, 2026 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Leadership & Work

August  1

Spring Boot 4 Upgrade: Lessons From an AI-First Migration

Created: August 8, 2026 · 21 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

July  1

5 Days in Alaska: Moose, Glaciers, and a Wildlife Cruise

Modified: July 12, 2026 · Created: July 12, 2026 · 9 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

June  3

The Monthly Wrapping Up: Our Couple Money and Life Review

Created: June 14, 2026 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

9 day Iceland Ring Road trip itinerary in May

Created: June 4, 2026 · 27 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

MongoDB Server Timeout: When Client Timeouts Aren’t Enough

Created: June 3, 2026 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

May  2

Four Years at FISPAN: A Coffee Table Book of Messages

Created: May 8, 2026 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Leadership & Work

Improving MongoDB Observability with Spring Data

Modified: June 3, 2026 · Created: May 7, 2026 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

April  3

Why Async Agentic AI Does Not Mean Free Productivity

Created: April 21, 2026 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Leadership & Work

Hawaii Big Island: Volcanoes, Beaches, and a 3-Day Escape

Modified: July 12, 2026 · Created: April 19, 2026 · 12 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Six Hours by the Fire for Costela Fogo de Chão in Brazil

Modified: April 11, 2026 · Created: April 11, 2026 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

March  2

Is Agentic AI Like a Drug?

Modified: April 21, 2026 · Created: March 30, 2026 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Leadership & Work

IntelliJ AI Chat Window Is Better Than the Copilot Plugin

Created: March 19, 2026 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

February  1

Top Podcasts of 2025: Smarter, Healthier, and Happier

Created: February 12, 2026 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

January  4

JPA Delete and Optimistic Locking: Why Batching Fails

Created: January 22, 2026 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Spring Boot 4 Migration Analysis

Modified: August 8, 2026 · Created: January 19, 2026 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

My Health and Fitness Journey in 2025

Created: January 14, 2026 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro: Our Copacabana Experience

Modified: April 11, 2026 · Created: January 13, 2026 · 12 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

2025  16

November  3

My Top 2 Books of 2025: The Ones With the Biggest Impact

Created: November 30, 2025 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

My Stock Photography Experiment: Earning Extra Income

Modified: October 23, 2026 · Created: November 9, 2025 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Hobbies

Getting Observability Right with Spring AI and WebFlux

Created: November 1, 2025 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

September  2

Kenya and Tanzania Safari: 10 Days in Africa’s Best Parks

Modified: October 23, 2026 · Created: September 27, 2025 · 31 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Why I Bought a Camera for Our Safari

Modified: October 23, 2026 · Created: September 21, 2025 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Hobbies

August  1

Abbotsford Airshow 2025: From F-35s to Snowbirds

Created: August 11, 2025 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

June  2

Two Years Without Social Media: What I Gained and Miss

Created: June 25, 2025 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

Learnings from the book The Culture Map

Created: June 9, 2025 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

March  2

Learnings from the book Unit Testing

Created: March 15, 2025 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Storyworthy

Created: March 8, 2025 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

February  2

My First DEXA Scan: Was It Worth It?

Created: February 15, 2025 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

Why Task Snacking Feels Productive But Holds You Back

Modified: April 21, 2026 · Created: February 1, 2025 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

January  4

Celebrating New Year’s Eve in Vegas: Highlights & Surprises

Created: January 28, 2025 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Fixing Tracing Propagation in Spring WebFlux in One Line

Created: January 27, 2025 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

One Day at the Grand Canyon: Exploring the South Rim Views

Created: January 18, 2025 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

My Healthiest Year Yet: My 2024 Health and Fitness Journey

Created: January 15, 2025 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

2024  32

December  5

My First Garden: Lessons and Surprises for a New Gardener

Created: December 21, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Hobbies

My Top 3 Books of 2024: The Ones With the Biggest Impact

Created: December 17, 2024 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Leavenworth at Christmas: Reindeer, Lights, and Festive Fun

Created: December 15, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Learnings from the book I Don’t Want To Talk About It

Created: December 15, 2024 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Top Podcasts of 2024: Smarter, Healthier, and Happier

Created: December 11, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

October  1

Learnings from the book Hidden Potential

Created: October 19, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

September  2

Celestron Travel Scope 80 Review: My First Telescope

Created: September 23, 2024 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Hobbies

Automated Library Changelogs in GitLab Release Notes

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: September 16, 2024 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

August  2

Navigating a Major Spring Boot Upgrade: Key Takeaways

Modified: August 8, 2026 · Created: August 27, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Spring Batch 5: Backwards Compatible Params Table Migration

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: August 19, 2024 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

July  4

Spring Boot 3 Upgrade Lost 90% of Our Distributed Traces

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: July 17, 2024 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

How Spring Boot 3.3.1 Broke Our Jackson Object Mapper

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: July 15, 2024 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Goals and purposes for the next year

Created: July 7, 2024 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

Learnings from the book The Comfort Crisis

Created: July 1, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

June  4

Migrating Netflix Zuul to Spring Cloud Gateway Server MVC

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: June 27, 2024 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

My Pillars of Health: Guidelines to Live Healthier

Created: June 24, 2024 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

Learnings from the book A Guide to the Good Life

Created: June 17, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

The Best of Dubai: Everything We Did and Liked Most

Created: June 2, 2024 · 11 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

May  3

Dubai Desert Safari: Is it worth it?

Created: May 27, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Learnings from the book The Good Enough Job

Created: May 26, 2024 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Learnings from Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Created: May 16, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

April  3

Spring Boot 2.7 to 3.2 Migration: A Detailed Guide

Modified: August 8, 2026 · Created: April 27, 2024 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Spring Sleuth to Micrometer Migration in Spring Boot 3

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: April 11, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Replace Deprecated @EnableResourceServer in Spring Security

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: April 1, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

March  2

Hiking the Tunnel Bluffs from Lions Bay trail

Created: March 23, 2024 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Hiking BCMC Trail in Winter

Created: March 6, 2024 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

February  3

Learnings from the book Outlive

Created: February 26, 2024 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book An Immense World

Created: February 20, 2024 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Root causes are usually simpler than they appear

Created: February 3, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

January  3

Learnings from the book Clear Thinking

Created: January 15, 2024 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Relaxing in a cozy log cabin in Forest Grove - BC

Created: January 13, 2024 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

The 5 Best Books I Read in 2023

Created: January 3, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

2023  37

December  7

Cancun all-inclusive Resort: We felt like kings

Created: December 31, 2023 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Learnings from the book The Five Invitations

Created: December 30, 2023 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Same as Ever

Created: December 24, 2023 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Pro Spring 6

Created: December 23, 2023 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

RabbitMQ DLQs: Why Poisonous Message Handling Matters

Created: December 18, 2023 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

The top 5 podcasts that captivated my ears and mind in 2023

Created: December 11, 2023 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

We added cash to the portfolio and here is why

Created: December 2, 2023 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

November  3

Return to the office or not? Positive points of each

Created: November 25, 2023 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Leadership & Work

Learnings from the book Four Thousand Weeks

Created: November 4, 2023 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

How Dependabot Keeps Our Dependencies Up to Date

Created: November 4, 2023 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

October  1

Learnings from the book Atomic Habits

Modified: January 7, 2025 · Created: October 14, 2023 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

September  2

My Software Engineering Philosophy: Guiding Principles

Created: September 13, 2023 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Learnings from the book Never Split the Difference

Created: September 11, 2023 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

August  5

Learnings from the book Foundations of Scalable Systems

Created: August 22, 2023 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

One year in 15 seconds: 4 Seasons Timelapse of Vancouver

Created: August 20, 2023 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Canadian Rockies Camping Trip: Jasper and Banff in 6 Nights

Modified: July 12, 2026 · Created: August 14, 2023 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Travel & Adventures

Insights from Mentorship: Three Key Learnings

Created: August 14, 2023 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Learnings from the book Excellent Advice for Living

Created: August 2, 2023 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

July  3

Learnings from the book Song of Significance

Created: July 25, 2023 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

How I Use the Daily Questions to Focus on What Matters

Created: July 18, 2023 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

Learnings from the book Quit

Created: July 6, 2023 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

June  2

Learnings from the book Think Again

Created: June 28, 2023 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

The importance of the prefetch count in RabbitMQ consumers

Created: June 24, 2023 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

May  2

Learnings from the book The Staff Engineer’s Path

Modified: February 1, 2025 · Created: May 16, 2023 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

RabbitMQ Quorum queues definition arguments

Created: May 2, 2023 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

April  3

Learnings from the book The Earned Life

Created: April 21, 2023 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book RabbitMQ in Depth

Created: April 6, 2023 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Extreme Ownership

Created: April 2, 2023 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

March  2

Learnings from the book Being Mortal

Created: March 24, 2023 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Mastering Distributed Tracing

Created: March 4, 2023 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

February  3

Learnings from the book Why We Sleep

Created: February 20, 2023 · 10 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Why did I stop drinking coffee after 12 PM and so should you

Created: February 11, 2023 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

Learnings from the book How will you measure your life?

Created: February 4, 2023 · 13 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

January  4

Learnings from the book Mistakes were made (but not by me)

Created: January 30, 2023 · 9 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Learnings from the book Distributed Tracing in Practice

Created: January 24, 2023 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Observability Basics

Created: January 21, 2023 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Learnings from the book Let’s talk about death (over dinner)

Created: January 1, 2023 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

2022  34

December  2

The ‘Learnings from books’ series

Created: December 29, 2022 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Learnings from Books

Why we decided to index all our portfolio

Created: December 13, 2022 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

November  1

Cache in a microservice environment: A short overview

Created: November 7, 2022 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

October  2

Platform Team: What It Does and How It Helps a Company Grow

Created: October 26, 2022 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Our First Thanksgiving in Canada: Tradition and Flavors

Modified: October 15, 2024 · Created: October 25, 2022 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Hobbies

September  3

Why We Added an ETF to Our Portfolio: Hedging Ourselves

Created: September 14, 2022 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

How We Manage Money as a Couple: A Practical Approach

Modified: June 14, 2026 · Created: September 11, 2022 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

PostgreSQL GIN Index: Long Random Queries on Data Updates

Created: September 10, 2022 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

July  1

Leadership lessons from Ted Lasso TV show

Created: July 12, 2022 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Leadership & Work

June  3

25 Takeaways from Ray Dalio’s Changing World Order

Created: June 7, 2022 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

New to Canada Guide: Guide for a more smooth experience

Created: June 4, 2022 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Immigration

RabbitMQ High Availability: Tips for a Better Broker

Created: June 4, 2022 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

May  11

Software Engineering Interview Preparation Guide

Created: May 17, 2022 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Porter’s 5 Forces: Find Stocks with Competitive Advantages

Created: May 15, 2022 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

What Is Your Investment Horizon and Why It Matters

Created: May 15, 2022 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

Warren Buffett’s Mistakes in His First 25 Years at Berkshire

Created: May 14, 2022 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

Warren Buffett and Coca-Cola: How It Began in 1988

Created: May 12, 2022 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

Hot-Cold Empathy Gap: How This Bias Affects Investing

Created: May 11, 2022 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

CELPIP-G Speaking Tips

Created: May 11, 2022 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Immigration

The 20 Most Important Things by Howard Marks

Created: May 10, 2022 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

Choosing Service Level Objectives (SLOs): Google’s Lessons

Created: May 4, 2022 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

13 Attributes of a Perfect Company by Peter Lynch

Created: May 2, 2022 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

Sunk Cost Fallacy: Bad Jobs, Unhappy Marriages and More

Created: May 1, 2022 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Personal Development

April  6

Morgan Housel’s 5 Best Quotes (and My Favorite One)

Created: April 30, 2022 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

6 Principles of a Rule Breaker Portfolio

Created: April 24, 2022 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

6 tips on how to invest according to Rule Breaker Investing

Created: April 23, 2022 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

Pact Contract Testing flow on a CI pipeline

Created: April 18, 2022 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

10 important pieces of investment advice from Warren Buffett

Created: April 17, 2022 · 6 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

What Are Compounders? The Power of Long-Term Investing

Modified: October 15, 2024 · Created: April 11, 2022 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Finance & Investing

February  2

Using Pact for Consumer-Driven Contract Testing

Created: February 19, 2022 · 8 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Contract Testing: Keeping Microservices Communicating

Created: February 6, 2022 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

January  3

What is it that makes bad code smell so bad?

Created: January 29, 2022 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Clean Code: Insights from Uncle Bob and Others

Modified: September 23, 2024 · Created: January 22, 2022 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Building My Blog: The Platform and Tech Stack

Modified: November 12, 2024 · Created: January 8, 2022 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering