The English version of this post is available below. Click here to read it. If you want to know more about how modern technologies and tools can support you for - and during - the organisation of a virtual event, don't miss this article showcasing … Read more
Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code (IaC) uses a high-level descriptive coding language to automate the provisioning of IT infrastructure. This automation eliminates the need for developers to manually provision and manage servers, … Read more
Cloud-native, Containers-based development: Quarkus revamps Java
Explore Cloud Native ComputingOn March 3 2020, IBM held a conference to give developers insights into key technologies required to rapidly build secure applications that can be managed and optimized across multiple cloud providers.If you missed it, … Read more
API Economy: Code + API = Money
We live in an interconnected world whose fabric is wired in software threads. Application Programming Interfaces contribute to this fabric through the optimization of resources such as time and money. Thanks to the sharing of APIs, the full potential … Read more
COVID-19 & Open Source: a Shared Global Approach to Emergencies
Table Of ContentsContact tracing in the worldCentralized and decentralized dataOpen source or not? The Italian 'Immuni' appWork in progress: 'Protetti', the (open source) appThe NoiApp team's philosophyHelping the global community: the case for … Read more
What Skills Should A CTO Still Practice and Hone?
Remain focused on your career pathIf you want to be prepared to make the right decisions at the right time for your career path it's vital that you comprehend your wants and needs as well as all the options in front of you. Make sure you subscribe to … Read more
Can winning the Call for Code Global Challenge change your life?
The winner of the 2018 Call for Code Global Challenge, Project OWL, is a hardware and software solution that uses Wi-Fi to bring simple communications to civilians who hve become disconnected from the global network because of natural disasters. OWL, … Read more
From Code to Production With No Manual Deployment
In this article we will explore how to deploy an application through the IBM Cloud Platform, by means of Red Hat OpenShift. There are now far easier ways to deploy your product than having to do it all on your own as you did in the old days. The … Read more
Career advice for developers
Careers in developing must be approached from a planning perspective. This is a complex task that becomes even more so in the world of software developers. Taking a strong basic foundation and knowledge of languages for granted, continuous updating … Read more
The Lifecycle of the Developer’s Career
The work situation in Italy has long been under the magnifying glass. The best talents, particularly the young, often choose to work abroad as in Italy the pay and career conditions are very poor. The same applies to developers' careers. What we … Read more
Why do some machine learning models fail?
Everything is automatic and effortless with machine learning algorithms, right? Big data is all you need, after all. You have a dataset, you split it when necessary, you take one machine learning model, you train it and the miracle of a correct … Read more
Voice-based situational design, where context is king
According to the software giants, voice-based UI and conversational AI represent the next-gen computing interface. After decades of lower-level approaches, including character-based, graphical, Web, and mobile interfaces, it's time to use … Read more
5G pushes video-as-a-service and e-Sports
Media and Entertainment in the 5G era are their own ecosystem of ecosystems, ruled by one or more AIs that choose the best videos, and e-sports contents. Mixed reality will change entertainment forever. Trento University has recently jumped ahead … Read more
5G: Edge computing is the key to performances
Edge computing is the key enabler for 5G and its cloud-based structure. The experts of CNIT (Italian Inter-University Center for Telecoms) explained why at the 5G Italy event. This new approach is very challenging to explain, so let's start with a … Read more
Vibrational energy: big data and small devices
A functional first-level framework to provide a service to users as an app. Let’s see the case for seismic data from both Italy-based and US-based open data collections. We are living in a highly vibrating world. The knowledge of many vibrations can h … Read more
When Lambdas take control: The service of serverless
The serverless paradigm is an emerging software developing model. It is very useful in many cases, for both brand-new instances such as IoT development and as integration to existing architectures without touching the old code. It is offered by all … Read more
Life-cycle of a security incident: from detection to response
Giovanni Merlos Mellini is the Head of Information, Systems and Network Security at Enav S.p.A., the Italian Air Navigation Service Provider. He is also the founder of the not-for-profit association Cyber Saiyan and the organiser of RomHack, a free … Read more
5G: what’s in it for developers?
The world of wireless terrestrial telecommunications is on his way to 5G, a new approach to use the radio spectrum that is incompatible with all previous efforts. The main improvements promised by 5G are higher speed, higher number of connected … Read more
5G: what’s in it for security?
What is the perception of security in the brave new 5G world? We asked this question to some CxOs in the cybertech arena. The overall picture is that a large part of the companies is making small investments in the specific area, while some of them … Read more
How JSR 385 could have saved the Mars Climate Orbiter… and your job
Numbers are normally treated as straight entities, but they often are not that straight. Most numbers, indeed, carry with them a dimensional aspect: money is in of some currency, while in physics speed is in meters per second, fluids are in liter and … Read more