Mike
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CTO in residence
from Belgium 🇧🇪

Mike is a seasoned software architect turned seasoned engineering manager

Building software products is a tricky balancing act and Mike loves helping teams get better at it. He's allergic to paint-by-numbers-Agile and believes the right process has to be tailor-made for each company.

Which is the coolest country you ever visited?
Definitely Iceland! Or maybe Romania...? Or Indonesia? Antwerp?

Water or coffee?
Hard to give up one or the other, so let's meet in the middle and settle on an Americano?

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About Mike

Base: Antwerp (BE)
Studies: Bachelor in Software engineering
Passions: rock climbing, travelling, amateur craft beer brewing

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Expertises

Technical leadership
High performance teams
Writing
Coaching
Software Architecture
Keeping things simple

Articles by Mike

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Why AI will not kill Open Source

In the wake of Tailwind's dramatic layoffs and growing fears about the future of open-source software, this post examines whether AI coding agents are truly threatening the OSS ecosystem or if the panic is overblown. And it's a reaction to Andreas' idea that open source will no longer exist.

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On the imminent retirement of the keyboard - the future of software engineering

Ideas and insights

By 2030, nobody will write code anymore and here is why. The difference between agent-powered engineers and those who handcraft code is huge. Here's our prediction on software engineering.

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Getting started with performance testing

Ideas and insights

Automated testing

Code quality and design

Performance bugs erode trust quietly until users explode. Three pragmatic steps help you catch slowdowns early: explore real bottlenecks with Sentry, test with production-sized data, and add lightweight API load tests.

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What will the state of AI be like by this time next year?

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Smart is not enough: three criteria to select AI tools

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Fitness for purpose: taking risks with quality

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These questions will be answered after technical due diligence

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Making progress without a technical leader

Pricing strategies in the era of AI: why hourly billing no longer works

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Building a customer support machine: a pragmatic approach for startups

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🌶️ SaaS startups should never use microservices. Like, never-ever.

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Why you shouldn't let customers pay for features

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How to start growing talent in-house

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How to stop depending on that one developer

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