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Alessandro Confetti

Alessandro Confetti

I started writing software when I was fourteen, and I never stopped since then. Tech Principal @thoughtworks Italia and adjunct professor at @polimi.

DataMesh in the world of Legacy

Data Engeeniring Milan Meetup, Milan, 14/07/2021 Data Mesh is rapidly gaining traction as a modern way to unlock value from the vast data assets usually held by companies. Often though, even when attacking the world of data with a Data Mesh approach, we have to face the legacy

Talk: Was the technology really useful this time?

Talk: Was the technology really useful this time?

Rethink! [http://rethinkfestival.it/], Milan 06/10/2020 The impact of the pandemic on digital has had two unexpected outcomes. First, it shifted the debate from how to prevent technology from isolating people, to how it could allow them to stay in touch. But above all it has shown that

Confronting the Unknown — Art as Technology Research

Confronting the Unknown — Art as Technology Research

Rethink! [http://rethinkfestival.it/giugno-2020/], Milan 20/06/2020 The health crisis we are experiencing is teaching us a hard lesson, establishing at the same time a new and pervasive exposure of everyone to digital tools and channels even in everyday and more traditional activities. All digital/virtual/asynchronous interactions

Make legacy applications first-class citizens of event-driven architectures via cloud, DevOps and CDC

Make legacy applications first-class citizens of event-driven architectures via cloud, DevOps and CDC

Article first published on ThoughtWorks Insights [https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/make-legacy-applications-first-class-citizens-event-driven-architectures-cloud-devops-and#.XwyBQt-NTt4.link] , July 13th 2020.

Talk: Scuttlebutt or how to exit Facebook and start coding your first web 3.0 social network

Talk: Scuttlebutt or how to exit Facebook and start coding your first web 3.0 social network

Codemotion [https://events.codemotion.com/conferences/berlin/2019/], Berlin 13/11/2019 SSB (aka SecureScuttleButt) it's a gossip-based web 3.0 protocol that allows developers to write off-grid/serverless P2P social networks that can even fall back to sneakernet and be useful in places where your Facebook profile is just

Talk: what is Lightning Network and how it works

Talk: what is Lightning Network and how it works

BlockchainDevs [https://www.meetup.com/it-IT/Blockchain-Devs-Milano/], Milan 08/04/2019 Is there such a thing as a fast bitcoin chain? Slides [https://www.slideshare.net/zigolab/what-is-lightning-network-and-how-it-works]

Talk: How to avoid a Web 3.0 babele: transclusions and folksonomies in a content-addressed and block-chained world

Talk: How to avoid a Web 3.0 babele: transclusions and folksonomies in a content-addressed and block-chained world

Codemotion [https://madrid2018.codemotionworld.com], Madrid 30/11/2018 Web 3.0 decentralised apps and services are igniting the third revolution of the web. Will we be able to avoid the mistakes of the previous Web revolutions and finally make the internet what visionaries like Vannevar Bush and Theodor Nelson