Manuel Garrido

I have been working with AWS (Amazon Web Services) over the past decade. At my current job at Semrush, I am lucky enough that I got to work with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) for a change. After a year of experience with it, here are my very personal comments on

As most people in the Data world, I have been more and more exposed to LLM based AI tools. Things like Copilot or Perplexity have been adopted as new, better tools and have indeed made my regular workflow faster (to an extent). Side note: I don't understand why we have

Last weekend, I had some time to kill, and I thought I would tackle a minor pet peeve of mine.   My wife and I are trying to go on a hike at least once a month, we like to try different trails around our area. In Spain, the dominant site

At my current company (Carpe Data, we are hiring!) , one of my tasks is to maintain an internal Airflow plugin (common-airflow-utils) with Airflow related utilities. The library is used by 5 different teams, powering a big part of our production worfklows. and it provides higher abstractions on top of the

Its been 9 years since I spin up my Digital Ocean instance. It has been hosting my personal site, blog, random personal projects, and even faced one or two Hacker news front page traffic spikes. Why named dokku you wonder, oh young reader? Well, back before kubernetes was a thing,