Mike Ramos Tech

Latest — 09 Feb 2026

Lessons from modernizing 10 services using Generative AI

I joined a new team at IBM a few months back, with the goal of creating MCP servers for many of the internal APIs that support employees. As I began getting up to speed on the project, I realized the APIs could use some love. These APIs are heavily used

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IBM Tech 2025 - My Thoughts

I just got back from Tech 2025, IBM's premier recognition, education, and development program for top technical IBMers. This year's event was in San Diego and I had a great time. The program is a mix of fun events and educational sessions, and in this post

Leveling Up Your CI/CD Pipeline with Security Best Practices

In my previous post, I walked through the foundational steps of a solid CI/CD pipeline including the essential tasks to build and deploy code. Getting your code to production quickly is good, but a great pipeline also makes sure that what you’re shipping is secure, verified, and compliant.

What Makes a CI/CD Pipeline Great?

Whether you're shipping a mobile app or deploying a backend service, your Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline is the gatekeeper of quality and security. A good pipeline can catch bugs in minutes, but a great one helps prevent incidents before they reach production. Here, I&

Local PySpark Development for Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg is a new-ish format for working with large sets of data. Iceberg is very powerful as a production data lake or warehouse, but it can be tricky to configure a local development environment properly. In this blog, I will cover how I have configured local tables using Iceberg