At Codemotion Milan 2019, the end of day 1 was dedicated to focused meetups. This edition hosted 4 of them, about Kubernetes, Angular, Bitcoin, and the very special update to the Digital Transformation Team. This expert group was born to build the … Read more
Maker Faire 2019: good taste for Making and Coding!
The international maker movement is getting a second chance to follow Dale Dougherty's vision about the Makers movement. After a sudden bankruptcy of Maker Faire and Maker Media, and Dale's comeback with his own money, it's very interesting to check … Read more
5G: new satellites could narrow the digital divide – and hide the stars forever
While 5G is only for the highly developed world, other solutions are really inclusive for everybody in the world. Will we still call "Internet" the final result? Over half of the world's population is unconnected. OneWeb are building the world's … Read more
Local Data Science is dead: AI with a DevOp mindset
Thiago de Faria, Solution Engineer at Linkit, strongly believes that the entire data science (ML, AI) pipeline should be processed online. This is only one of the cultural limitations of a developing world torn between computer science degrees and … Read more
Time for Design Ops: Ground it, baby!
Google invented a new professional, the User Experience Engineer, only a few years ago. This two-sided master helps the product delivery the same way devops helped the software delivery. The UXE professional has been introduced in Sketchin since … Read more
Algorand, Silvio Micali’s instant blockchain consensus over a crypto-empowered protocol
“The blockchain does not exist!” This kicked off the beginning of the conference held by Silvio Micali, the mind behind the Algorand proposal, at the Data Driven Innovation Conference in Rome, on May 10, 2019. Silvio Micali on stage at Data Driven … Read more
The Lightning Network: from seven to 7,000 transactions per second
The Lightning Network is a path to improve Blockchain’s speed capabilities. One of the networking meetings proposed by Codemotion is the Aperitech event. At Codemotion Rome 2019, the event structure was different than usual, due to time constraints … Read more
Menny Barzilay and a Game of threat: privacy is a matter of insights
The advent of any advance in technology raises doubts about its dark side. Every technology can be used both for the good and for the bad, and there is no way to plan how it will deploy. Privacy, whatever you call it, is the main concern of our time … Read more
Don Eyles and the elegance of the universe: A talk with the man who coded the human race to the Moon
The Moon Landing is probably the most important achievement in human history. It was allowed by a complex technology and feeling that we still cannot replicate today, with our superior technology. Many movies, books, and other media witness the … Read more