Cloud-native systems, written down as I learn them.
AWS, serverless architecture, security and developer tooling, mostly from my years building a live-video platform at Grabyo.
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The Half-Million Dollar AWS Diet: Grabyo’s Cost-Cutting Success Story — Part 2
Welcome to Part II of Grabyo’s AWS cost optimization journey. In Part I, we explored our initial approach and the quick wins we achieved through…
The Half-Million Dollar AWS Diet: Grabyo’s Cost-Cutting Success Story — Part I
At Grabyo, our engineering team thrives on innovation, constantly pushing the boundaries with cutting-edge technologies. As the head of the Platform…
Going Codeless with AWS API Gateway and Step Functions
This idea came out of nowhere: what if I could take a fully coded microservice and rebuild it with almost no code at all? Bold? Definitely. Maybe…
Missing Out on the AI Revolution? Here’s What You’re Losing
It was a typical Tuesday morning when I first decided to give AI a serious try in my workflow. As an engineering leader with years of experience…
Cloud-Native Search: Our Path to a Fully Serverless Architecture
Picture this: It’s another bustling day at Grabyo, and our trusty search infrastructure is humming along, helping users find exactly what they need…
Alerting Nirvana: How Grabyo Tamed the Notification Beast
Picture this: You’re deep in concentration, working on a complex piece of code, when your screen lights up with a series of alerts. Sound familiar?…
Internal SSO at Grabyo
We’re all about keeping things locked down and tight on the security front. So, kicking off the year, we decided to shake things up with our internal…
Building a Microservice Lightning-Fast with AWS SAM
This blog post is a follow-up to my previous blog post, Enforcing IAM least privilege with AWS SAM + Airtable to go over the backend for that…
Enforcing IAM least privilege with AWS SAM + Airtable
Grabyo has been an AWS partner for a number of years now. One of the requirements to be an AWS partner is to pass their FTR (Foundational Technical…
The Security Awareness Training day at Grabyo
Security is central to everything we do at Grabyo, from Engineering and Customer Support to Sales, Marketing, and HR. To protect our data and…
How we create production-ready microservices in hours
As explained in our previous post, Our Road to Microservices , we reached a point where our engineering team understood that migrating from a…
Our SSH access management evolution
Since the beginning of Grabyo, we have been running on the AWS cloud on top of Linux EC2 servers. Most recently, we have migrated all our…
The evolution of engineering management at Grabyo
I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Grabyo grow from the startup size with about five engineers to its current size of about 50 engineers. During this…
Our road to microservices
This post tells the story of how we started our journey into the microservices world. To guide us on this process, we followed many suggestions and…
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I'm an engineer focused on AWS, serverless architecture and the platform tooling that lets teams ship safely and fast.
Most of the work shown here comes from Grabyo, a live-video platform, where I worked on cost optimisation, search, alerting, single sign-on and developer tooling.
Based in Madrid.
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The best way to reach me is on GitHub.