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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.

Talk: Confronting the Unknown — Art as Technology Research

Talk: Confronting the Unknown — Art as Technology Research

Rethink!, 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 are no longer experienced

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

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

Article first published on ThoughtWorks Insights, July 13th 2020. By Alessandro Confetti and Enrico Piccinin Modern systems are increasingly designed around event-driven architecture concepts. Essentially, you’ll have a bunch of microservices running on cloud, interconnected via fast asynchronous streams of business events. There are many benefits of such an

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

Talk: What is Lightning Network and how it works

Talk: What is Lightning Network and how it works

BlockchainDevs, Milan 08/04/2019 Is there such a thing as a fast bitcoin chain? Slides

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, Berlin 20/11/2018 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 envisioned in the late

Talk: oop vs functional - stop the fight and start building message driven serverless applications

Talk: oop vs functional - stop the fight and start building message driven serverless applications

Codemotion, Berlin 20/11/2018 Let's get back to the time when languages could be defined with just 6 reserved keywords or none at all, and learn how the ideas that John McCarthy and Alan Key envisioned in Lisp and Smalltalk are still alive and kicking in our

Webinar: Through the looking glass (of the blockchain)

Webinar: Through the looking glass (of the blockchain)

Blockchain and crypto values conference Free Webinar, Milan 29/05/2018 Everybody nowadays talks about the blockchain and how it could empower a new and incredible range of applications. But what it's stored inside a block and what is suitable for? What is worth to store in and