Articles by María Leal

Compare The Product Shelf’s technical books by the product questions they cover, from integrations and architecture to data, releases, security and technical debt.…

Follow a production issue from customer reports to technical evidence, assess its impact and define observability requirements for future releases.…

A collaboration product connects metric definitions, activation, mature retention cohorts and guardrails with the decisions a team needs to make.…

Seven PostgreSQL examples for activation, funnels, adoption, retention, cohorts, acquisition and paid conversion, with the definitions needed to interpret each result.…

Manage an API as a product: define customer journeys, prioritize developer experience, measure adoption and plan compatibility, support and migrations.…

How code reaches customers through pipelines, environments, deployment and release, including feature flags, recovery strategies and mobile distribution.…

A guide to logs, Kibana, metrics, traces and alerts, explaining how production evidence connects an incident to its effect on customers.…

Definitions and examples of activation, retention, funnels, cohorts and segmentation, with criteria for interpreting changes and investigating the behaviour behind a metric.…

Tables, filters, aggregations and joins explained through product questions, including the effects of identifiers, missing values, time zones and data quality.…

How frontend, backend, databases, services and dependencies shape product changes, with examples of caching, reliability, technical debt and delivery scope.…