# TalkingTech – Free MCP server and API for engineering leadership content > Source: > Published: 2026-11-12 21:03:02+00:00 ### Platform Architecture Self-service infrastructure and platform engineering that strips away cognitive load, so product squads focus 100% on domain logic and strategic features. NewThe 2026 Tech Leadership Blueprint is here. Field-tested frameworks on engineering leadership, product strategy, and modern architecture — written from 25+ years of real-world software delivery. No fluff. No innovation theater. Practical playbooks, battle-tested in production Self-service IDP & paved roads Engineering Efficiency DORA, SPACE & flow metrics Product Strategy Discovery, shift-left & ROI People & Culture Hiring, growth & topologies Delivery health TL-OS health+12% A pragmatic operating system for technology and executive product leadership — structured around four pillars that turn technical complexity into a predictable driver of business value and sustainable scale. DORA, SPACE, and flow metrics that turn engineering delivery into a predictable, data-driven discipline — velocity without burnout. Connecting engineering to business outcomes: upstream discovery, shift-left quality and security, and executive communication that translates tech into ROI. Attract, enable, and retain talent through team topologies, dual-ladder growth, and governance that keeps organizations healthy at scale. Every article, ebook, and micro-insight on this site maps to one of the four pillars — browse the library by pillar or by maturity level. Not another leadership manifesto. The field manual of Tech Leaders — from a mindset shift to people strategy. A battle-tested handbook for leading engineering organizations, structuring high-velocity teams, and making high-stakes technological trade-offs. Inside the book Be the first to know when it launches. Leave your email and we'll notify you the moment the book is available. Operating models, architecture trade-offs, and leadership lessons mapped to the four pillars of the TalkingTech Leadership OS — written for people accountable for outcomes, not activity. 9 of 9 resources A portfolio approach to technical debt that keeps refactoring funded, visible, and tied to business outcomes — without freezing the roadmap. The shift from hands-on coder to technical enabler — and the four boundaries that let a squad make safe decisions without you. How to retire value risk early with narrow experiments, explicit kill criteria, and discovery that respects engineering cost. A concrete look at team topology, planning cadence, interface contracts, and the metrics that keep a large platform org aligned. How to write a one-page ADR that a CFO can evaluate — without dumbing down the technical trade-offs. A structured interview process that evaluates judgment and collaboration — while respecting candidates' time. Replace velocity theater with a small set of outcome metrics that connect team work to customer behavior and business results. A practical onboarding plan for new engineering executives: listen, diagnose, set a narrow agenda, and earn the right to change. How to fund platform work by making internal leverage legible — without inventing ROI numbers nobody believes. Bite-sized tactical wisdom from the TalkingTech Leadership OS, ready for immediate application. Copy one into your next team note. “Before approving a complex technical change, ask “Why?” three times. If the final answer is “because it is shiny,” the change is not ready.” “Executives rarely care about Kubernetes clusters. They care about time-to-market, reliability, and operating cost. Lead with those.” “Same-day constructive feedback prevents weeks of misaligned effort. Waiting for the performance review is not feedback; it is ambush.” “If a decision is cheap to undo, decide quickly and move on. Save the long deliberation for choices that are expensive to reverse.” “Every yes to new work is a no to something already committed. Name what gets dropped before the team is forced to choose silently.” “A decision that lives only in a meeting will be relitigated within a quarter. Capture the context, the trade-off, and the review date.” New micro-insights are published every week. A free, read-only JSON API and an MCP server for the TalkingTech content. No sign-up, no API key — just point your client at the endpoints below. Discovery at `https://www.talkingtech.online/api/v1`, OpenAPI 3.1 at `https://www.talkingtech.online/api/v1/openapi.json`. CORS-enabled, ETag-cached, rate limited per IP. Example request `curl "https://www.talkingtech.online/api/v1/articles?limit=5"` Connect any MCP client to `https://www.talkingtech.online/api/mcp`. Supports tools, resources, and prompts for the public content. Claude Code `claude mcp add --transport http talkingtech https://www.talkingtech.online/api/mcp` MCP client JSON ``` { "mcpServers": { "talkingtech": { "url": "https://www.talkingtech.online/api/mcp" } } } ``` Collections and individual items are toggled from the CMS. Drafts are never exposed. Ricardo Vano Executive Technology Leader & Creator of the TalkingTech Leadership OS 115+ Team led 400% Org scale 25+ Years in tech With over 25 years of experience at the forefront of software engineering, cloud architecture, and organizational design, Ricardo Vano has built, transformed, and scaled high-performing technology organizations across Latin America's most complex and fast-moving ecosystems. His career spans high-growth scale-ups, leading digital banks, and critical financial infrastructure providers, with a proven track record of aligning engineering strategy with business growth.