Hugo Guerrero

CORE

Head of Technical Marketing at Kong Inc

Chelmsford, US

Joined Mar 2015

https://hellokube.dev

About

Hugo Guerrero has over 20 years of hands-on experience in software development. He’s worked across the stack as a developer, consultant, architect, and software factory manager. Hugo is a strong advocate for event-driven systems and actively contributes to open source communities, including AsyncAPI. He maintains the Microcks Docker Desktop Extension and regularly shares practical insights on AI, APIs, distributed systems, and developer tooling.

Open Source Projects

Open Source Projects

Microcks

Apr 2019 - Current

Open source cloud-native tool for API Mocking and Testing Microcks leverages API standards to provide a uniform and multi-protocol approach, empowering your API and microservices lifecycle. It strengthens your ecosystem to create an adaptable API value chain #APIDevOps

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Articles

Articles

From Platform Cowboys to Governance Marshals: Taming the AI Wild West

AI feels like the Wild West — platform engineers must become governance marshals to scale trust and turn chaos into safe, sustainable innovation.

October 22, 2025

· 2,411 Views · 1 Like

MCP Servers: The Technical Debt That Is Coming

MCP servers promise faster AI-driven orchestration through the use of natural language, but they risk becoming technical debt.

May 22, 2025

· 8,315 Views · 3 Likes

API Management as Code: A Declarative Approach to Scaling API Operations

API management as code is a declarative approach to managing APIs at scale, providing benefits like automation, consistency, collaboration, and scalability.

March 3, 2025

· 4,614 Views · 1 Like

When APIs Go Wrong: Neglecting Rate Limiting

Authentication is important, though not a complete defense. Rate-limiting policies add an extra line of protection to reduce the impact on compromised APIs.

April 29, 2024

· 2,092 Views · 1 Like

Integrate Oracle Database With Apache Kafka Using Debezium

Oracle Databases are used for traditional enterprise applications and departmental systems in large enterprises. Debezium connector for Oracle is a great way to capture data changes from the transactional system of record and make them available for application use.

August 16, 2022

· 7,998 Views · 1 Like

Alternatives to Docker Desktop

Have $5 to spend monthly? Do you want to avoid the fee? There are a couple of alternatives that can replace Docker Desktop with a free solution.

February 9, 2022

· 13,873 Views · 3 Likes

Three Easy Ways to Run Kafka Without Zookeeper

Since version 2.8, we now can run a Kafka cluster without Zookeeper. This article will go over three easy ways to get started with a single node cluster using containers.

January 4, 2022

· 7,540 Views · 4 Likes

Deploying an Apache Kafka mock service with Microcks

Microcks is an open source Kubernetes-native platform for API mocking and testing. You can use the AsyncAPI specification examples to tell Microcks to generate events to Apache Kafka with a simple configuration.

May 17, 2021

· 19,317 Views · 9 Likes

Debezium Serialization With Apache Avro and Apicurio Service Registry

This article demonstrates how to use Debezium to monitor a MySQL database and then use Apache Avro with the Apicurio service registry to externalize the data schema and reduce the payload of each one of the captured events.

December 1, 2020

· 6,808 Views · 2 Likes

How to Run Kafka on Openshift, the Enterprise Kubernetes, With AMQ Streams

A tutorial on how to use these popular and powerful technologies to create microservices that can exchange data.

January 14, 2019

· 18,981 Views · 4 Likes