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Israel Fermin Montilla

Israel Fermin Montilla

Consulting Chronicles: I rarely know what I'm doing

Consulting Chronicles: I rarely know what I'm doing

I spent over 10 years in the tech industry, building software products and solutions for customers, before I moved into consulting a couple of years ago, when I joined BCGX. You’d think that after 10+ years of building stuff, I’d know most of what there is to know—

Top 5 most read from 2024

Top 5 most read from 2024

This year came with many nice surprises and other not-so-nice ones, but those are stories to be told on 2025. In general, 2024 is a year I have many reasons to be grateful for, one of those is that I had more time to write than other past years as

Integration testing is hard

Integration testing is hard

If we think about the testing pyramid, at the very bottom we have Unit Testing, this is the most basic testing mechanism, in theory, we can think of our code in terms of Units, a Unit is the smallest piece of code to test, it can be a function, a

Ay!, A.I.

Ay!, A.I.

There has been a lot of noise around Artificial Intelligence since around November / December 2023. Specially revolving around the new Generative Artificial Intelligence (abbreviated GenAI) technology that seems to have a mind of its own and being able to chat almost like a human, generate images from a short text

Software Engineering: more than only coding

Software Engineering: more than only coding

At work, a while ago, my Engineering Manager asked me to start sharing my knowledge with the rest of the team more often. Of course, we do code reviews and we have some other ways to get the knowledge spread across the team, we have a wiki on confluence, we

The Human Component of DevOps: Conway's Law

The Human Component of DevOps: Conway's Law

I've been part of large and small DevOps implementations, none of them were particularly painful regardless of the size of the team. Everyone seemed open to change and seasoned about best practices in software development, simple and efficient solutions seemed to work perfectly in an elegant orchestrated puzzle

Which languages should I learn?

Which languages should I learn?

There are millions of articles and blog posts out there trying to tell you what to learn next or which language or technologies are worth your attention, things like Top 10 programming languages or Learn one of these languages and you’ll be done with some statistics about language popularity